Chapter - 51
"That was how I got in," Seraphine told Leo, her voice cold. "I washed dishes. I scrubbed the floors. I was invisible."
"I watched, and I learned."
"I needed to get closer to the family. Closer to the girl who killed my mother and brother."
But it was hard, Aliana was never at the castle. It was hard to get an audience with her, let alone become a part of her servants. Lord Caelum was rarely seen. So her only option was Lady Isolde.
Isolde was Lord Caelum's first wife, and Aliana's mother.
She was a fading beauty, a woman in her late thirties with grey hair and early signs of wrinkles.
She was clinging desperately to her youth. She was fragile and profoundly unhappy. She was obsessed with her husband, but Lord Caelum ignored her completely.
