Before dawn, silence enveloped the entire villa, broken only by the distant sound of insects chirping outside the window.
Selena lay in the small, hard bed, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep. The bed in the storage room was far too small. Even a slight movement could cause her to roll off the edge. On top of that, her stomach growled in hunger since she hadn't had dinner.
It wasn't that Selena didn't want to eat earlier, but nobody cooked for her, and Cherry had blocked her entrance to the kitchen, making it impossible for her to prepare something herself.
Selena knew that, for now, living in Cedric's house meant depending on him. Perhaps in his eyes, she was nothing but a tool for surrogacy. But why had he said such sweet things before?
Her mind was a jumble as she endured he
