Serena's POV The sun woke me up the next morning. A maid was in Nero's room, drawing the curtains. She glared at me when I looked at her. She obviously didn't like me and was terrorizing me. Who even let her in there when I was sleeping? She had no right to wake me up, especially when I had slept late the previous night. Nero had kept me up all night, and when he left, I could barely sleep. "It's time for breakfast," she said as she hovered. "What's your name?" I asked her. She may have been a maid, but she was a bully. I didn't look down on staff because my parents had taught me better, but they had also taught me to defend myself. She was my age or slightly older. Maybe she had a thing for Nero and was mad that he brought a woman home and screwed her chances of having

