The Fitzpatrick Estate had gone without its lady for way too long.
When Anna came to, she was already back there.
She stared at Ethan sitting nearby, her eyes full of regret. She knew it—dropping her guard around him for even a second was always a bad idea.
The family doctor was new, and every household helper had been replaced.
Ethan remembered all too well how the old staff used to treat Anna—cold and dismissive, simply because he himself hadn't stood up for her. Some of them even went out of their way to make things hard on her.
Eventually, he'd let everyone go, keeping only the cook at home. For cleaning, he hired a part-time worker who came in while he was at work. But when it came to the master bedroom, Ethan always cleaned that himself.
He'd called the doctor ahe
