17 Chapter Thirteen: Disposals

DOCTOR CAMPBELL SPOTS GAYA in the garden from his study on the third floor. She’s as beautiful as ever –even with the blandest palace wear.

Seth had always loved Gaya. She is, to him, the best part of being at the palace. As lifelong friends, he had never imagined he would be working so closely to her –such a reality caused him only to fall more deeply for her.

Even so, however, Seth could never bring himself to confess his feelings. He had kept quiet about it all; he kept quiet when she cried over the man she had ended up marrying, he kept quiet and attended to her when she had given birth to her daughter, Avie, he kept quiet when Gaya lost her husband and Avie, her father. He had kept quiet all this time.