Laurel couldn't help herself from rolling her eyes at Basil and Delia, but she didn't expect Basil o Adolph to notice. After Basil and Delia walked away Adolph leaned towards her.
“Do you hate Basil?”
She wanted to tell the truth, but it wasn’t polite to speak ill of the son in front of a father, let alone at the son’s wedding.
“I'm sorry, Your Majesty. Did I behave rudely?”
“For a girl participating in a noble banquet for the first time, you behaved very well. I thought you were just rejecting me because you didn't want to be my partner, but now it seems there's also a dislike for my son.”
Laurel swallowed and tried to keep calm. He didn’t know she was Laura. She’d done nothing to make him think so. He’d never even met Laura, yet she had to think of something to keep his probing eyes
