DAMIAN Seraphina stood still in front of me, like my words suddenly made her immobile. I looked at her face again, her eyes down, like an eye contact with me would burn her. Great. I walked back to my seat and gently sat down, my eyes still on her. “You're dismissed,” I said flatly and she scurried away. I scoffed and picked up my laptop, but I didn't work. My mind kept going back to her reaction when she'd seen me in her room last night. I had simply gone to warn her, but obviously, she was fine. I looked at the laptop again and the image of her face appeared on the screen, her face when she hadn't seen me, when she was lost in the damn rose and then her face when she saw me. I scoffed and finally started typing, she was my bride after all, and very soon she would start performing h

