After making sure that Alec was still not around, Lauren made her way down the basement where the wine cellar was.
Every click of her shoes as she walked in the basement's hallway echoed. The flames in the torches danced as she passed by them and her heart remained calm despite knowing that a possible danger awaited her.
Lauren knew what she was doing – meddling with Alec's personal business, might be against their contract but she couldn't help her curiosity.
What if the man she married had a sinister secret down his mansion and wanted to raise havoc in their land? She may have held grudges against the royal family and wished to bring them down, but it didn't mean she would not mind involving the innocents. Evardin was the land where she was born, and she wouldn't appreciate someone ruining its order.
