Chapter 259. I Did Not Betray You

[07:00 pm. 10-12-2021. Lavender gates, Yin capital]

Racheal sat on the couch, stringing the ornament balls for Leo who placed them on the christmas tree.

The maids had offered to help again and again, but Racheal had turned them all away.

She wanted to do this herself, feel even a little alive on her first Christmas with her mother.

She sighed.

This would have been her first Christmas with Steffan too.

“You will have to go faster than that Ma’am, or I’ll call the maids.” Leo said, pulling her out of her thoughts.

When she looked up at him, he was smiling.

“I’ll be tempted to beat them off with a stick this time.” She said, as she handed him a green ornament ball.

“Glad to see you have enough strength for that.’ Leo said.

She laughed.

She liked that he had a sense of humour.

She did not know she could laugh again.

She looked around the spacious living room of the house she now shared with her mother in a be