Katherine Harrington:
The maids bowed immediately.
“Welcome home, Your Majesty.”
I nearly jumped.
There were so many of them.
How many maids did one man even need?
Luciano didn’t slow.
“Leave us,” he said calmly.
Every single maid disappeared almost instantly.
I watched them scatter down the hallway before looking back at Luciano suspiciously.
“Do they teleport?”
“No.”
“You answered that too fast.”
“They walk quickly.”
“That somehow doesn’t reassure me.”
Luciano opened the massive double doors at the end of the corridor and stepped aside slightly for me to enter first.
Then I walked into his room.
And immediately forgot how breathing worked.
The space was enormous.
Dark polished floors stretched beneath soft golden lighting while towering windows overlooked the glitterin
