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.

Millie. Had she shared

No way. He wouldn’t deign to share a bed

have been an

heart hammered against her chest. She hastily scanned herself,

her bed with a man. Judging by the

violation. Yet the thought of unknowingly sharing

find the perpetrator and

the heart of a pavilion,

his gaze, Marcus spied Millie, her hair in a haphazard bun, appearing listless and entangled in her thoughts, looking as if she

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

to the company’s chronometer of civility, the breakfast would commence promptly

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