I was the biggest disappointment to my grandmother when I was born. She hated Luke's father, my uncle and she wished desperately for me to be a son, just so my father’s chances of being challenged by my uncle would be less.
Disappointed as she was, she and my mother found a way to make my unwanted gender work in their favor. They made me a seductress, a woman who can get any man she wants as long as he lets what’s between his legs control him.
But me?
I wanted more than that for myself, I didn’t want to be limited to the powerful man I could marry, I wanted to be powerful.
As I heard Flynn’s approaching footsteps and his familiar scent drifted into my nostrils, I silently wondered if I would’ve been better off following the path my mother and grandmother set for me.
They’d still
