LIORA’S POV
My heart skipped a beat, panic flooding through me as those hands covered my eyes.
Then a familiar female voice spoke up again, warm and teasing. “Come on, guess!”
I knew that voice.
I spun around, and my breath caught.
“Seraphina?”
She grinned at me, her dark curls bouncing as she clapped her hands together. “You remembered! I wasn’t sure you would after all this time.”
“Of course I remember!” Without thinking, I threw my arms around her, and she hugged me back just as tightly.
Seraphina was Lord Aldric’s second wife, though calling her that made her sound older than she was. We were the same age, he’d married her just two years ago when she was barely seventeen. She’d been kind to me during my time at Lord Cassius’s house, one of the few people who treated me like a p
