With every hour that passed, Lady Melissa was getting closer and closer to the deadline, as she had been up for twenty-four hours right now, yet she still hadn't figured out what to do after she'd assassinated Duke Gaston.
Lady Melissa was simply not ready, as she felt like she was going to collapse any second right now because of the amount of stress she was feeling right now, and how tired and exhausted she was with every second that passed with the fact that she was awake.
Right at that moment, right at 2 AM in the dead middle of the night, just as she was about to fall asleep and her face landed on her desk, there was a knock, a knock, out of everywhere that there could be a knock from- a knock that came from the window.