Green eyed- Part 5

She hadn't been listening to what they were speaking lost in her thoughts and when she did she heard Lady Caroline tell one of her tales.

"....and then this woman whom I had trusted all those years tried to stab father! The nerve of the woman!"

"You can't blame the woman for trying to stab him when he deserves to be stabbed," Quill muttered under his breath.

"And what happened then?" Elliot asked amused.

"Father had her thrown to the brothel. A fit punishment," she huffed.

"A servant has to be treated as a servant to show where they belong, else, they mistake it to be something else," she heard Lord Alexander speak.

Hearing his words made her heart drop. For some reason it felt his words were directed towards her and those words hurt.

He lived in a different world, a world to which she didn't belong. What happened two nights ago was a dream and this was the hard reality.