_Author’s POV_
Rowena vomited blood three minutes after Kaelen left.
She had made it to the small bathroom off the study before it happened, which meant Kaelen didn’t see it and Kasper didn’t see it and for approximately four minutes she managed to keep it entirely to herself.
She stood over the sink and looked at what had come up and felt two things simultaneously, the physical shock of it and a cold, clear fury at her own body for doing this now, in the middle of everything, when she had too much left to do to be genuinely unwell.
She cleaned up, straightened, and walked back to the desk.
Velvet was in the study when she returned, carefully arranging documents, actually watching the door from the study to the bathroom without being obvious.
She saw Rowena’s face and k
