SLOAN
I thought I had won. I refused to try on a single thing after Vera picked out her dress. She threw a fit, blaming me for being mean or something, but I held my ground. I thought I had won.
Until Vera was pounding on my door when I was minutes from getting into bed to sleep, she shoved a garment bag into my hands and stormed away without a word. I opened it to find a stupidly expensive gown that was absolutely my size, and I had half a mind to shred it.
Then at breakfast, Valen had to dig the knife in deeper. He linked me. He put his stupid voice in my head and told me not to goad his sister.
I had no real loyalty to Serenity Waters. I didn’t feel like a part of this place- I couldn’t be with one foot out of the territory from the start. But I tried to be respectful of the kind
