Surely, I’ve misheard. But, no, Caleb spoke very clearly, and he wouldn’t say something like that for the hell of it.
For him to announce that to me, he means it. He genuinely intends to make me part of his harem.
“I don’t understand,” I admit. “Before all this, you sent me to the coliseum… now you want me to part of your harem?”
As a member of the harem, I would still be a prisoner, but it would be a gilded cage filled with silks and fineries. As Veronica has already proven, the other harem members could be dangerous, but even so, it wasn’t like the certainty of facing wild, hungry animals and knowing I’m about to die.
“Did you wish to refuse?” Caleb asks. Where brightness sparked in his voice before, now he seemed annoyed. Likely he expected me to be ecstatic by this new outcome. Pe
