As if any of that helped me in the end.

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But at least it allowed me to help Anya and spend more time with her, so I wasn’t complaining now.

It was nearly midnight on the night before the event when disaster struck. I’d been working on the final section of beading along the hem, my eyelids drooping from exhaustion, when my elbow knocked into the container holding the extra beads.

Time seemed to slow as the container tipped, then tumbled off the edge of Anya’s bed. Glass beads exploded across the floor and scattered in every direction.

“Oh no,” Anya gasped, scrambling to her feet. “There’s no time to buy more beads and I need that exact amount for the dress, so we have to make sure we find them all!”

I nodded, already jumping up and helping Anya pick up the spilt beads. They seemed to have multiplied when they fell, hundreds turning into thousands upon thousands. A good portion of them rolled underneath the door and into the hallway.

“I’ll go get those,” I said once we’d cleaned up the main mess in the room, already moving toward the door. “You keep working on the beading.”

Anya nodded, looking just as exhausted as I felt, and sat back down on the bed with the container of beads and the dress. I quietly slipped out the door, taking care not to wake the other sleeping

servants.

picking up each one and tucking it into my pocket. Just as I was reaching

the polished wood floor. It rolled past the library, past the sitting room, and somehow even gained momentum as

rolled through a doorway that had been left slightly ajar. I pushed the door open wider and stepped inside without paying attention to the room I was walking

had come to rest against the leg of a


up, closing my fist around the cool glass.

Alexander’s bedroom.

as my eyes

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a pair of pajama pants. His chest was bare, rising and falling with deep inhales and exhales. His legs were tangled with

He looked so…

Handsome.

tangle up with me in those very

loved for that little window of bliss between all of the

traitorous part of me

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