Under the Veil I Rule

Chapter 182

She didn't want to argue with someone who was sick, so she approached, spread the blanket over Finnian, returned to her own room, locking the door securely behind her, and and went to bed.

Probably out of the spectacle she'd experienced that night, which exhausted her, Amara quickly fell asleep.

The next morning, she woke up, her eyes fluttering open to find someone sitting at the edge of her bed, staring down at her.

The shock jolted her fully awake. She sat up quickly, making frantic attempts to pull the blanket up to her side. "You got better?”

She looked up at Finnian.

He was still wearing the same clothes from yesterday, but he seemed much more like himself.

His face was calm and composed, his gaze steady on Amara.

Amara felt a shiver run down her spine under his scrutiny. She was fully dressed in her pajamas, but his gaze made her feel strangely exposed.

Just as she was about to ask him something, it hit her that something was off. She blurted out, "How did you get in here?"

She distinctly remembered locking the door last night, and there was no spare key in the living room. How on earth did Finnian end up in her room?

Finnian held up something between his fingers—a black hairpin.

was the hairpin she'd casually left on

the lock

Finnian could pick locks?

berate him. Instead, she shot back sarcastically, "Mr. Everly,

ignored her sarcasm, placing the hairpin down and tilting

made her uncomfortable, as if he was sizing her up. She asked, "Mr.

his hand, he wasn't feverish anymore, which meant he should

her and stood up, still observing

been questioning his

fixation on Amara's supposed infidelity wasn't just

to hold double

had pointed out before that he was away for those three years, and Amara must have someone else by now. It never bothered him much. Their

himself had thought when Liliana came along, if Amara

it would be fairer.

reaction was nothing like what

Jealous of the man who

had mentioned it a couple of times, but he'd never admitted it, always using his grandfather

after a drunken night and a fever,

this

it because