He finally stopped teasing her after biting playfully at the corner of her lips, wrapped both arms around her waist, and lifted her up.
Seeing him behaving properly, Fiona Schmidt's expression softened a little, but her heart was still pounding wildly, nowhere near calm.
Norton Abyss didn't rush her off to wash up. The two of them leaned against each other and talked for a while, taking their time before leaving the bedroom…
Outside the bedchamber doors stood a large group of servants, including Chief Steward Billyan, Cidy, and Smaii—altogether more than a dozen people, both men and women, none of them very old.
They had already been waiting for quite a while. Just now, a faint feminine scream had come from inside, startling them all, and then the men's faces broke into knowing, ambiguous smiles.
The women saw the looks on their faces and instantly understood, blushing all around, a little embarrassed.
