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.

E L A ‘s L I B

told me the young men were upset their mentors had to leave for a time, but Damien

of knowledge about the outside world. Nothing we ever said to them leaked out. They were Loyal and discrete. Damien told me that’s what made

boys had been right and the world was not what it seemed. He’d told them if a young woman named “Hannah” or “Kennedy” wanted them to go somewhere, they should go. There was a life beyond these walls and it was better than what we had here. The boys had solemnly swore to keep the secret and

men preferred and other things they Liked to have. Those things were packed up to take with us to the mountains. We decided to risk taking Kennedy’s pad

hide it in the sleeping

dangerous. He knew it could burn and made me swear to throw it in the fire if anyone got too close.

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

a Lot about how to keep a secret. There were just things I could not go blabbing about. The family came before everything else. This secret protected Hannah, Kennedy, and all of us; there was no way

family had done this out of love. It was a misguided attempt to protect me from the pain of a

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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