Lily didn’t sleep that day. She laid in bed, twisting and turning, but he neck ached on both sides and images of the prince passed between her eyes. Images of the red-headed woman, straddled on his lap. Her curves distinct in the candle light, her breasts large, her hair tumbling down her back as she moved atop him.
She wished she’d never seen it.
Lily didn’t understand the twisted feelings welling up inside of her. She was angry and hurt—but didn’t know why she was hurt. And anyway, she was simply working for the prince. It wasn’t like she’d ever intended to marry him or something like that.
And even if she had wanted to marry him, she was a lowly consort. How would that ever go about?
Even if the prince loved her back, she was disgrace to his palace.
She tried to convince herself that it was for the best—that it was never going to work out otherwise. All he’d done was save her time and spare her doomed emotions.