And truly, that wasn't a thrilling or appealing concept to me in the slightest.
I turned and headed back up the grand staircase to my room, ready to continue reading the fiction book from exactly where I had stopped.
I needed to kill time until my brothers finally returned from wherever they had gone tonight; our father had traveled early this morning for a crucial, high-level board meeting at one of our major overseas branches, leaving the estate unusually quiet.
Back in the safety of my room, I sat back down on the comfy velvet sofa. I picked up the thick novel, slid the silver pageholder out from between the leaves, and tried to immerse myself in the text.
Ten minutes in, a wave of intense frustration washed over me as I realized I couldn't concentrate on a single wording on the pa
