My Step Brother's Claim: The Alpha's Secret Heir
"You were the best duck in the world."
"I know," said Mia, with deep complacency.
"Bravo," said a soft voice at my shoulder.
I did not turn. I knew the perfume. Under the white tea and the iron, so faint that I could scarcely tell it from my own breath, there was a sour, bitter, wintry edge, like a flower that has been left too long on a cold windowsill.
Seraphina stood beside me in her ice-blue gown, with her pomander glittering at her throat and her face tilted up in the light. She was not smiling any longer. It was something worse, an utterly calm, utterly clear interest, like a scientist looking at a result.