Late January. Frost lingered on the edges of Windsor's streets, the air still brittle with winter.
The car glided through Whitehall, its lamps cutting through pale fog. Inside, Serena Maxwell sat beside Charlton Daniel, hands folded neatly over her lap, her thoughts a quiet hum beneath the stillness.
It had been months since her name last filled the papers — months since scandal had given way to silence.
And now, she was about to break it herself.
This was their first public appearance together since the storm — Duke of Suffox and Lady Serena Maxwell, side by side once more, no longer whispered of but watched openly.
The invitation had come from the Prime Minister himself — Marquess Nicholas Klauss, a man whose every word dripped calculation. To attend the parliamentary session was both a risk and a declaration.
