Seraphina POV

I walked out of the office, letting the door slam shut behind me. The lower employees looked up from their desks, their eyes wide and curious. I snapped my gaze toward them and they scattered like roaches, their heads dropping back to their screens.

"What are you looking at?" I spat.

They fled.

Being near such low people was beneath me. It always had been. My mother taught me that. She taught me that people like them existed to serve people like us. They were background noise. Furniture. Nothing more.

But then I saw her face.

That bitch.

She had been standing in Lucian's private office, holding a...