Looking at the reason she had been feeling watched all night, Amelia honestly didn’t know how to feel.
Her emotions tangled together in ways she couldn’t fully separate.
Confusion.
Annoyance.
Bitterness.
Something unfinished.
And maybe that was what frustrated her the most.
Because she wanted to feel nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
But emotions were rarely that simple.
Her gaze lingered for only a moment before shifting more carefully toward the woman dancing beside Alexander.
Victoria.
If she remembered correctly, that was her name.
The same woman who had introduced herself politely the night Amelia attended their engagement.
The memory returned so sharply it almost made her chest ache.
That night.
That humiliation.
Standing there pretending she was fine while her entire wor
