[Evelyn’s POV]
This wasn’t how I expected my night to go. All I wanted was to ease the uncomfortable scratchiness in my throat with a cup of tea and return back to my silent sanctuary.
The last several days had been some of the hardest to ever endure in my life. I’d become so used to being around people who cared for me and appreciated me, that I generally wasn’t used to being alone and isolated.
Granted, I was responsible for shutting myself away—I knew that—I just couldn’t believe that this was how I'd been living for the majority of my life. Before I married Alexander, I never realized that I’d been primarily living in my family alone.
The staff were my only source of conversation. But there was only so much time they were able to converse with me before it would begin to hinder
