Chapter 21

The snotty butler was right. It was hard to miss the garden. It stood a few meters away from the mansion’s main building in a meadow filled with wide pretty flowers that gleamed red and bright in the sun.

Cassie was mind blown. She had never imagined such a place as...beautiful as this was in a large mansion like his. Keith Andino was a man of many mysteries, wasn’t he? Who would have thought that a cold-faced man like that would have an actual garden?

Not her, definitely.

She approached the garden cautiously, her eyes taking in the flowers as she stepped in. A gentle wind whipped against her legs, up the huge Tee she wore, and against her jean shorts. It felt soft. Like a gentle massage that caressed and licked at her skin. There it was again. That drowsy feeling, as if something was sitting on her subconscious, suppressing her.

“You’re here,” Andino’s raspy voice reached her ears, and though it took a lot more concentration than usual, she tore her gaze awa