Damien and his Brothers apologized for lying to me during Lunch. It had never been their intention to cause me pain; they only wanted to protect me.

“The sadness the breeding caused you was too strong and we feared you would break again,” Christof said solemnly.

“We wanted to protect you.”

I shook my head and picked at my plate absently.

“The truth is important between us,” I told him. “You can’t tell me I’m free and still make all my decisions for me.”

They didn’t understand and I knew the root of their confusion. In their hearts they didn’t believe I was strong enough to be free the way they were. My family still had my position caught somewhere between slave and free, but not entirely either.

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were upset their mentors had to leave for a time, but Damien had promised to return. He asked the young men to continue to do extra work and

Nothing we ever said to them leaked out. They were Loyal and discrete. Damien told me that’s what made him decide to trust them

been right and the world was not what it seemed. He’d told them if a young woman named “Hannah” or “Kennedy” wanted them

Those things were packed up to take with us to the mountains. We decided

this,” Christof told me seriously. “We will hide it in the sleeping area of our lodgings. Your

He knew it could burn and made me

told them. “Some things must be kept in the family. I

were just things I could not go blabbing about. The family came before everything else. This secret protected Hannah, Kennedy,

upset about this unexpected pregnancy, but I knew my family had done this out of love. It was a misguided attempt to protect me from the pain of a forced conception. I mourned the larger problem and wrestled internally

I cared for them, too. I wished that one day we could love one another equally. It seemed that time was a long

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