The Heiress He UnderestimatedChapter 25
The Heiress He Underestimated
Chapter 25
FinishedThe week before the Valdris Gala was a special kind of torture. Elera felt like a ghost in her own home, drifting through rooms while her father buzzed with a frantic, proprietary energy. He had hired an event coordinator “to help her prepare,” a sleek woman named Genevieve who spoke in a whisper and treated Elera like a valuable but slightly dim–witted racehorse.“Posture, darling,” Genevieve would murmur, a hand pressing between Elera’s shoulder blades as they practiced walking in the gala heels. “Think of a string pulling you up from the crown of your head. You want to look ethereal. Unreachable.”I want to look like I’d rather be anywhere else, Elera thought, but she obeyed, gliding across the marble foyer with a vacant smile.Xan’s attentions grew more suffocating. He sent bouquets so large they barely fit through the door- explosions of white roses and orchids, funereal and opulent. His texts were constant, a stream of
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