Chapter 86: Ruined mood

Music Recommendation: Christmas Dinner At the Weston's- Isobel Waller

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Eve watched Noah and Marceline dance together. The vampiress hid her face in his arms while laughing when Noah said something. The Duke of Woodlock was an agreeable and easy-going man, and Eve doubted there was any woman who would be uncomfortable in his company. 

Eve wondered if Lady Marceline was Noah's type of woman—brunette and a vampiress. If Noah had offered to dance with Marceline, it might have been because he found the young vampiress to be enchanting. 

"Do you want to go and dance too, Eve?" Rosetta asked her after noticing where she was looking with a longing expression. "I have been waiting for a good man to come ask me," saying this, the vampiress downed the second glass of wine in her hand, while Eve was yet to taste the wine in the glass that she held in her hand.