What Was Never Mine
I was raised to be invisible.
In the kingdom of Avelaine, a maid’s life is meant to pass quietly—unnoticed and unchanged. I knew my place in the halls of Hawthorne Palace, until Prince Roman Davenport looked at me as though I was something more than a shadow.
He belonged to the crown.
I belonged to silence.
What grew between us was never spoken aloud. It lived in careful glances, restrained words, and moments stolen where no one was meant to see. Loving him was dangerous—not because of scandal, but because it asked for something I was never meant to have.
In a world ruled by duty and inheritance, some desires are not forbidden by law… but by reality itself.