Tessa Nile As Tessa shut the door, she recalled how, at first, Kevin Fox was merely Gamma Ryan's son. The firstborn and only child of the Fox household where she was assigned to work as a servant. Also, the first ranked male who was kind to her. He spoke to her like she was more than a servant. Even smiled at her. One time, he'd actually wiped the sweat off her brow when she was carrying the mopping bucket to go pour out the dirty water. She believed that was the day she fell for him. The two of them had started a secret relationship as soon as she came of age. But she'd soon realized that it was never a "relationship" to him. He'd told her bluntly that part of her duty was to warm his bed. Tessa had been devastated and was about to run away. The war had broken out in her former pac

