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“You do not have to,” he said. “We have the rest of our lives, Riot. The rest of our lives to determine who we are. You do not need to put yourself back together in five minutes. Head injuries are complex, so I have been told many times over the last month.”
“Can you start with telling me what... What happened to me?”
“No. I think we should start with getting you moved to a better room. I think we should start with you getting cleaned up, and then having dinner.”
She was in a nightgown, and she couldn’t deny that there was likely some validity to what he was saying, but that would require that she separate from Soriya.
She held the baby closer.
“She has been with me this last month. She will be fine with me for a few moments more.”
He took out his phone, and opened something, pushing a button inside of the app. And moments later, two members of staff she had not yet seen appeared.
“Yes, Mr. Valenti?”
“Please take my fiancée to her room. She will be in different quarters now. Help her select an outfit for dinner. Show her to the bathroom and draw her a bath.”
“Yes sir.”
And with that, Riot found herself being ushered away from Soriya, and from Krav, and she felt like the world had been upended yet again.
They were her anchors, she realized, even though she couldn’t remember either of them.
Because this whole world was foreign, but if it was Krav’s world, then she could at least work out why she was in it.
It didn’t take any imagination at all to see why she would’ve been tempted to go with him.
“Is he... He always like this?” she asked.
“Always like what, miss?” one of the women asked her.
“He’s quite... Autocratic.”
“I found him to be quite soft in that moment,” the other woman said. “Typically he is...”
“He growls like a tiger,” the other finished.
And they smiled at each other. A burning sensation of jealousy sparked in Riot’s stomach. And she knew that was silly. How could she be jealous over a man she didn’t even know? Anyway, they were engaged. In theory.
The entire house was grand, and she had barely had a chance to take it in, but when she was ushered into the room that was to be hers, the breath was stolen entirely out of her lungs.
It was...
It was so different than the rather intense, Gothic appearance of the rest of the manor.
It was light. White with soft pink accents everywhere. The bed was like a cloud. All white and cotton fluffy pink with gold for the poster frame and gauzy netting wrapped around it.
It was so open and airy, so different from the room she had just come from. So different from... From anything she had ever seen before, and yet somehow it was perfectly what she would’ve chosen for herself.
Was it strange, though, that there was this room here prepared for her and they didn’t share it?
She wondered if that was just how rich people did things. She knew that royalty often had separate bedrooms. Maybe it was... Maybe it was something the wealthy tended to do. She wouldn’t know.
She hadn’t known any wealthy people, not in her whole life. And he was clearly...
She tried so hard to remember. She tried so hard to cast her mind back.
Really, it was no mystery how he could’ve gotten her to let her guard down. He was the most beautiful man she had ever seen. And she might’ve thought that she wouldn’t have very many chances like that in her life. To sleep with a man who was quite that beautiful.
