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.

seized Millie. Had she shared her bed with

Marcus? No way. He wouldn’t deign to share a bed with her. It couldn’t have been

it have been

hastily scanned herself, relieved to

bed with a man. Judging by the size and breadth of the indentation, it certainly was not a

his inability saved her from violation. Yet the thought of unknowingly sharing her

within Millie. She vowed to find the perpetrator

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

a haphazard bun, appearing listless and entangled in her thoughts, looking as if

as though an army of caterpillars was invading her body. Her teeth ground

fixated on her. According to the company’s chronometer of civility, the breakfast would commence promptly at half past seven. Millie had arrived late,

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