"Why are you here?" Maria demanded as her red eyes flashed. "You don't belong in this part of the castle!"
Trying to control my raging heartbeat, I took a breath. "Wilson was giving me a lesson in his study." I tried to explain. "I was just heading back to the servants quarters."
"Lesson?" Maria repeated as if it were a dirty word. "You seduced my brother, and now you're doing things behind his back with that old man?"
Maria's words were like a slap in the face to me. Did she really just insinuate that I was going around seducing all the men in this castle? She had to be f*****g kidding me.
"Watch your mouth." I growled as my anger began to ebb. "I haven't done anything of the sort, and I won't allow you to speak of me that way."
As I spoke, a growl erupted from the man that I had ini
