Chapter: 186

After the final wisps of his second cigarette joined the night, he disrobed, slipping beneath the quilt with practiced ease.

The sun heralded a new day, and Millie rose at the last possible moment.

‘As she prepared to tidy the bed, she was taken aback by the evidence of an uninvited guest—an indentation suggesting company.

A shiver claimed her as she noticed the window ajar.

The previous night’s memories flooded back—the window she had secured with conviction, the upright pillow now flattened.

panic seized Millie. Had she shared her bed with a stranger last

He wouldn’t deign to share a

have been

hammered against her chest. She hastily scanned herself,

man. Judging

thought of

She vowed to find the

in the heart of a pavilion, a restaurant perched on a lake,

appearing listless and entangled in her thoughts, looking as if she had been

army of caterpillars was invading her body. Her teeth ground together in anger. She yearned to find and extinguish the source of her

chronometer of civility, the breakfast would commence promptly at half past seven. Millie had arrived late, exuding an air of languid ease that sharply contradicted

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