ALL I WANTED was ugly crying on somewhere quiet and forbidden, but I couldn’t even have that when I was in the middle of sobbing my heart out, and I heard footsteps coming closer. They were soft, so at least, it wasn’t the King or worse, the Prince from hell. I didn’t look back from the window I perched on though, willing to ignore whoever it was so they could get the sign that I didn’t want to talk to anyone. But when the shadow approached me and I could feel the presence just refusing to leave, I groaned and turned around.
Only to draw back when I spotted the girl from last night. The blonde woman that Kaden picked. What was her name again? I couldn’t remember for the life of me.
“My name is Odessa,” she introduced herself as if she could see the hesitation in my eyes meant that I had
