Chapter 561

Ivy's POV

I woke up in an uncomfortable bed.

The mattress was too firm, sinking in all the wrong places. The sheets had that rough texture of fabric washed a thousand times, lightly scratching against my skin. The room was small and cramped, with furniture that had seen better decades and wallpaper faded along the edges.

So different from my spacious suite in Valeriana, with its thousand-thread-co