Chapter 73. Broken Things Can Be Fixed

Seraphina

While I was in the kitchen lost in my thoughts, Mary aunty wasn't there today, so I had to take charge of making lunch. As I was cooking, my mind kept going back to the unexpected kiss that happened yesterday. The person who kissed me, Cassian, seemed to have disappeared since then. I wasn't sure why. Maybe he felt guilty or maybe he was just avoiding me. I didn't want to completely avoid his affection, but I didn't expect my first kiss to happen like this, with someone who didn't really care about me.

Finally, I finished cooking and thought about going to my room with a plate of food. But something happened. My anklet fell off and broke. I knew it was fragile and had been close to breaking for a while. I felt an urgency to remove these anklets and get the hooks fixed before they got worse.

As I was going up to the penthouse, I accidentally ran into Cassian. I wondered why he was there in the afternoon. My first thought was that h