Chapter 81. The Assistant

Madeline POV

“Yes, please come in.” Madeline muttered gently.

Her hands frozen above her hair, she dragged her gaze away from the bedside mirror, and peered directly at the door, curious about the unruly visitor.

The people who normally came to her room where maids, and some guards she was familiar with, and they rarely knocked. So? Who was this?

Madeline’s brow wrinkled, she pulled her hands from her hair, straightening as she waited for whomever was at the door to come. And to surprise, it was Rocky, Lord Darius’s personal bodyguard.

To say she was astonished was an understatement, and her mind began to race with questions about why he was here.

He never came to get a room, never even looked her way when she walked, and Madeline lost count of the times she had tried to gain his attention, but he always feigned her off or acted ignorantly—an attitude she despised with a passion.

That was how he behaved—The maids had informed her, but