Chapter 1: A Confounded Witch
SLEEPING early the night before and waking up before sunrise—Rose started living like an ordinary human since moving into the Azm mansion. She deemed it a necessary sacrifice to leave first thing in the morning to tend to the field at her hermitage.
The best part about the arrangement was that she no longer needed to be mindful of nighttime clients. It didn’t matter that she had refused any middle-of-the-night requests after the break-in, because she had programmed her body to snap awake at the sound of the bell that rang without fail whenever someone came to the dock. She finally learned the joys of a good night’s sleep without being disturbed by the bell, which was set off by both man and beast.
The Azm carriage escorted her to and from the hermitage. She was allowed to live as she wanted, spending her days at the hermitage and nights at the mansion without ever being forced to attend the balls, banquets, or garden parties she often heard rumors about.