CHAPTER FORTY-SIX
“I was glad to assist you.”
Those words echoed in the mind of not only Anna but Lady Shian. She stood stock-still amid the crowd of fireworks onlookers, a statue among the greenery. Her eyes were fixed on the small group of people near the edge of the pond. One of them was Lord Eastwei, and the other two were those hateful people from Fanshe Hall.
Shian clutched her hand over her heart and unbidden tears swelled up in her eyes. Lord Eastwei’s reply had seared itself into her memory and she couldn’t stop it from playing over and over again in her mind. Dadan had never favored her like that before. How could this new goddess earn his gentle words? She had only been among them a few months. What right did she have to his attentions?
Damn her she hissed as she sto
