LUCIAN's POV
"You deserve the very best," I said in unison with her.
Everything felt so strange, as if my brain might catch fire from overthinking. Adeline was turning my entire world upside down. It was like I had been living inside a shell, and everything about her was slowly breaking through that shell.
How could I possibly know about that dress? As she described it, vivid images formed in my mind. One moment, I remembered the dress; the next, the note inside the box; and finally, there she was.
I didn't know where she was, perhaps in the garden she had described. The scene in my mind focused only on her face. Her large, beautiful eyes looked distant and sad. Her shoulders drooped as if weighed down by a great burden. The wind gently played with her loose waves. In my mind's eye, we
