The man had waited three hours and only now he could get a single word out of his system. He was right to wait, the man beside Alaina had followed the girl like her shadow not even giving him or the likes of him a single opportunity.

But his chance came when she went out of the party towards the green patch of the mansion.

There she was right at the garden, sitting beside the fountain sprouting crystal clear water like diamonds falling down in glimmering beads encrusted in silver threads, watching the full moon glowing upon her heavenly face illuminated with the low light, her pouty red lips displaying...