Chapter 97 A Birthday Gift -1

• Arianna heard the conversation and could not think. She held her breath, took off her slippers, and gently walked back inside her room barefooted. Then she closed the door slowly and silently and then crawled back to the bed.
• She fell asleep that night, but she didn’t sleep very well.
• When she saw Charles, she was surprised that she could be as calm as usual, as if the conversation she had heard last night was just another dream.