LARA
I woke up and almost fell off the cold windowsill. I couldn’t believe I spend the whole night on it. But my body could. It was stiff and I practically crawled to open the door.
Lady Fiona was behind it and her gaze traveled over me in my beautiful silk nightgown with handmade lace. I quickly grabbed the think cotton throw to cover myself as she walked in.
“So, Kara,” she walked inside without asking permission, “I now remembered that my… cousin did not mention how the two of you met.”
Of course, he didn’t. And there were good reasons for that.
“We…”, I mumbled, trying to figure out what to say. “We used to work at the castle together. I mean at the palace in the capital of The Gerdian empire. I was a maid there.”
“Hmm,” lady Fiona looked me up and down again, “Let’s m
