Adeline sighed, hitting her head on the headboard while looking around the empty room.
She shouldn’t have sent all servants away. She thought that was the best decision at the time, seeing how they fussed around her as if she was dying. Not to mention that after the dance lesson with Kaden, their attitude had changed drastically. Polite and respectful before, they had become all smiles and rainbows, eager to please when they were not too busy staring at her like she was some exotic animal that had been brought for everyone to admire. It must have something to do with why everyone looked so startled when she asked Kaden to take off his gloves.
Did they also believe he was cursed? She had almost fallen for that for a second, but then nothing happened. Nothing but him saying those cryptic w
