Lilith's POV
I had no idea how long I'd been sitting there until a maid knocked softly on the door.
"Master, dinner is ready."
"Okay," I murmured absentmindedly, only then realizing I'd been sitting here in a daze the entire day.
No one came home. Not a single one of them.
An inexplicable sense of abandonment crept into my chest, spreading like frost beneath my skin.
In the dining room, the long table stretched endlessly before me.
I sat alone. Even the roasted lamb chops tasted dull and lifeless on my tongue.
But the faint trace of my stepbrothers' scent lingering in the air was far more intoxicating than any food could ever be.
After dinner, I wandered aimlessly through the corridors of the familiar manor like a ghost, as if searching for something I couldn't quite name—or fin
