Outrunning the Silence

Kaelen’s POV

I checked the time the moment the service door sealed Daphne back into her wing, and I did it not because I cared where she went after humiliating herself in my suite, but because I needed to confirm that Evelyn Beaumont had finally left my house and taken her perfume, her entitlement, and her constant hunger for leverage with her, because there are only so many hours in a day and I r