Smack. Smack. Smack. Before I could react, Kiki rushed in from the corner and slapped Adrian three times in quick succession. She was still holding a bag of oranges, yet it didn't affect her strength in the slightest. "I already made myself clear at the hospital entrance, so stop bothering Lara. Do you not understand plain language?" From her rapid-fire explanation, I finally pieced together what had happened. Seraphine's father had arranged a political marriage for her with the Royal House of Ardynia, and she had already left the country two days earlier for the wedding. When Adrian returned home, lost and shaken, hoping to find comfort in me, he found only an empty house, and that was when he realized that at some point, he had lost me. "So that's how it is..." I laughed so hard my

