After all the blubbering, I couldn’t help but feel embarrassed. I also couldn’t believe that I told Dorian everything about myself—well, mostly everything. He had taken me to the garden for some air, and said he would return with a cup of tea to help calm me down. The entire time, he hadn’t asked any more questions. He barely even spoke. From the looks of it, he had a million things going on inside his head, and I really couldn’t blame him. In fact, if he was perfectly normal about it, I would have found it unsettling.
I had expected him to rejoin me in the garden, but instead, it was Clarissa who brought me a cup of tea. And from the way she looked at me with such sad eyes, I was sure Dorian had told her. She was his greatest confidant anyway.
“Miss Shay,” she spoke so gently as she s
