Let me tell you, she'd been kicking herself nonstop lately. She must have been hit by a bolt of lightning back then, letting her feelings completely cloud her judgment. She walked away from a perfectly cozy, carefree retirement life and chose to stay in this world on her own. Over the past few days, Gisela had spent every waking hour with the personal maids, smoothly prying all kinds of inside information out of them without tipping them off at all. The body she was now occupying belonged to Lucille Montclair, the daughter of Alaric Montclair, the wealthiest noble lord in the royal capital. Her mother, Arabella Montclair, came from an old, declining aristocratic family. Even though her clan had long lost its former glory, pride ran deep in her bones. She was stubbornly proud and competi

