Silver Queen of Lunar Ridge
He smelled like insecure fury, and whenever the little scholarship maid, Evangeline Cross, walked past with her mop, Cassian’s eyes would lock onto her with a strange, frantic intensity.
"This is impossible," Vivienne hissed to herself, her fingernails digging deep into her palms. "He is the heir to the Vance family line. He belongs to the high-ranking nobility. Why is he looking at that filthy charity case like she matters?"
Marcus Sterling, her brother, sat on a leather sofa nearby, drinking a glass of cold water. "Calm down, Vivienne," he said carelessly. "She is just a maid. She is beneath us."