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Meredith's long golden hair was a tangled mess.

Stubborn strands escaped the hasty knot at her nape to frame her flushed face.

The clothes she had haphazardly thrown on were slightly askew, exposing a glimpse of her creamy skin.

Dark circles smudged the delicate skin under her eyes, and there was a veritable array of angry-looking hickeys peeking out from the low neckline of her blouse.

"Leave the poor girl alone!" Meredith continued in a tone of aggravated disbelief, shooting a pointed look at where Killian and President Bolting were seated at the dining table, whose eyes were wide with shock and no small amount of morbid amusement at her appearance.

"Have you lost all sense of propriety and decency? For heaven's sake, it's not even 9 AM yet!"

Serena was also jolted back to reality as if doused in ice water.

Her cheeks flushed an even darker red as she registered her grandmother-in-law's words and the implications behind them.

She immediately tried to extract herself from Knox's embra