"Thank you so much for your lovely presence, my lord," Emelisse gave the gentleman a polite smile and curtsied.
"The pleasure has all been mine," he smiled and, giving her a bow, walked out. Emelisse waited until he had completely disappeared and then sagged down on the sofa with a thud.
That would be the last of the many gentlemen she had been attending to all through the morning. That was a good sign. It meant that she left a flattering and lasting impression last night. But at the same time, she was actually exhausted to the bones. Her cheeks hurt from all the smiling and her mouth was dry as hay. She barely got much sleep last night, thanks to her errant dreams about a certain grumpy, dark-eyed gentleman. Her temples practically throbbed with pain now.
But regardless, she glanced
