CROWN OF VENOM AND VELVET

Seeds of Suspicion

Author: Vesper—Elsewhere

Seeds of Suspicion

[LORD RAFE ALDER MORLAND]

The button on the elevator glows as it moves lower, and I am well aware that no matter how many times I click, it will not return until she gets off at the lobby. At least that where I assume she is headed.

Where else can she go?

I turn back with a frustrated sigh, glancing down the empty hall, eyebrows pulling in. There was no sight of the prince behind me.

Glancing one