The trip back to their house was quiet for Zoe. It seemed her siblings noticed she wasn’t in the mood to talk, and even Ciel was silent as he drove. The conversation she had with Serena lingered in her mind. Seeing Serena and hearing the bad news stressed her out.
When they arrived home, she and Ciel went straight to their room. She didn’t know how to start telling him about what happened to his mother. It seemed he didn’t know the news. Were they hiding it from him?
When Carter visited, he hadn’t said anything to Ciel about their mother’s health. If her fiancé knew, he would have been told, right?
“Did I make you tired last night?” Ciel asked affectionately as he sat beside her on the bed.
He was topless, his well-defined arm muscles showing how strong he was. The hair on his lower ab
