Chapter 69: The evening of the banquet

Chapter 69: The evening of the banquet

When Belle woke up the next morning, she was alone in bed. She didn’t immediately get up and stared sightlessly at the space beside her where Rohan had slept last night and held her. She had slept the rest of the night with not a single nightmare. It was strange, the feeling of safety she had around him. If it weren’t for the lingering scent of her husband on the sheet, she would have thought he had not been with her last night.

With the help of Farrah, Belle did her morning routine and ate her breakfast alone in the room, as Rohan was said to have gone out yet again. She was too dreadful about the evening banquet to dwell on where he must have gone again. And honestly, after what they had done the night before and how she had shamelessly told him to pet her down there—not just that, he had gone on and used his mouth this time—she didn’t think she was ready to meet him. She hadn’t been embarrassed last night, but this morning was another thing, as when she was bathing and was washing, everything had come back to her in vivid clarity.

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