slightly, then slo

gs on the ceiling before she shut her ey

he sensed somet

s wide in shock as she

s space filled with e

l bedside lamp, then the television, the heater, and th

knew well. But she wa

his... m

er she had shared with he

was sh

st been poiso

y as she threw off the covers

f the mirror, stunne

ul, deli

lustrou

flawle

reathtakingly

this p

ed she had become after mo

d, utterly lost as she sta

knock came f

reakfast

was Aunt Miller-the woman who had always ca

ozen, her eyes sta

are you

ze. Looking at Aunt Miller stan

nd. You go

, ma

e room and reached out to silenc

d on the date displayed at the top of the screen,

lly be... that I'm still ali

ve her life over a

go-when she was at her most beautiful, most radiant, a

ourney's lips as she gazed

fering she endured in her past life-she would reclaim

point in time, they had been married for over half a year, yet th

ing every trick in the book just to push Theodor

tactics had been orchestrated

and after each of her outbursts, he would bring medicine to t

he had been, how much he had cared for h

bridal chamber, Theodore had never once spent the night her

o his workroom to sleep, jus

should do in this life was o

the power to protect, s

to her feet and

ind him in

aked open as Sigou

ticulously arranged, the fur

t his desk. He had probably worked late in

family was obscenely wealthy, he had refused to inherit t

amily's in power and influence. But sooner or later

golden sunlight filtering through the blinds, casting

n more pronounced, from his eyes to his lip

riking man before her. How had she never realized be

ad been to keep d

eodore to stir. As he blinked awake, his ey

he took in her flustered expression.

looking

er gaze, unable to meet his eyes. Her hands clenche

reached out to lift her delicate chin with hi

t the divorce ag

e unwavering res

eak, shutting down the idea from the ver

er again. She couldn't repeat the same mistakes of her

k her he

t's no

heodore's expression shifted