Aria woke at 5 AM to her alarm, her stomach tight with nerves.
Today was the day. Her first official day as Sarah Mitchell, maid at Blackwood Estate. Her first real step toward accessing the greenhouse and saving her mother.
And her first full day of being in close proximity to Damien Blackwood.
She'd dreamed about him last night, fragmented images that left her unsettled. Gray eyes that saw too much. That slight smile that felt like a promise and a threat. The way her body had responded to his nearness, heat flooding through her at a simple brush of his arm.
Stop it, she commanded herself as she dressed in the plain clothing she'd packed jeans and a T-shirt that would be replaced by her uniform once she arrived. He's just a man. A very rich, very observant man, but still just a man. Y
