Ceres ~
“I’ll see you at the ball tomorrow,” he had said to me before leaving Madame Yvonne’s dress shop.
My heart had fluttered like a thousand birds lived within me.
Previously, I had only gotten such a reaction when I had daydreams about Armand.
No other male had been able to bring butterflies to my belly until now.
I was in my part of the servants’ rooms, sneaking the dress in here had truly been a feat.
Getting caught with a dress such as this?! I would be termed a thief and thrown out of the palace after being utterly disgraced.
Nobody would believe a nobleman had bought it for me because he was courting me.
They would ask why he was courting me when there were several other noble women out there who would gladly throw themselves at him.
It was a question I had asked myself
