Chapter 12
Matteo Korbel, Count of Golchin, knew three things in life. One was that men like his father didn’t deserve to be honored. Two was that when you found something good, like Sheena, then you held onto it. And three, men like Charles, who currently was dancing with the woman who’d brought him to the party, were not to be trusted.
In other circumstances, Matteo might have befriended the man out of spite to his father, who had been born into the peerage but had never treated one person in his life nobly.
Sheena had gone with the royal family to ensure their comfort as they looked at the paintings, so she wasn’t in the ballroom that he oversaw as host.
Stefano came behind him and patted him on the back. “Matteo, what’s going on?”
Perhaps his lack of smile gave him away. He tried
