Chapter 136

“Drinking all day at a bar, laughing, kissing,” he chides, leaning forward towards me. “It sounds like a date to me, girl.”

I whip up my head at that, glaring at him. “We didn’t kiss,” I blurt out, defiant. Then, I blush harder when he laughs at me again.

“Does it matter if you kissed, Fay?” Kent asks, leaning back and shaking his head. “The damage is done. You were seen today, did you know that? That place he took you – it’s a gathering place. Neutral territory. So, it wasn’t just you and him there in that darkness – no. Men from all the families saw you there. Your

father’s men saw you there. Alden was the one who called me, in

fact, to tell me where you were.”

I go pale at this realization. Kent was right – I had assumed that Ivan took me to someplace personal and private, to a place where we precisely wouldn’t be seen. I hang my head, realizing that the damage is just as bad as Kent says it is.

“So, you understand now,” Kent continues. “What you’ve done. How you’ve embarrassed me. How you’ve embarrassed Daniel, of

all people. About whom I actually thought you cared.”

Frowning, ashamed of myself, I meet Kent’s eyes, a little angry at

I spit out. “I–I’m sorry.

we’d be seen.”

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that you can’t trust your instincts in this world?

he’s right. Damn it, I really thought Ivan had liked me…but now, realizing that he brought me there just so we’d be seen, so Kent would be embarrassed? I realize that I’ve again

not given you your horse, given you your sister back? You have everything you need to live a happy life, if you’d

draw for you.”

the frustration in me, the

you lay out for me, Kent? Wear the clothes you pick out for me every morning, participate in the approved activities you plan, talk to the people you want me to, when you want me to?”

quiet control, and places a hand beside my head on the door, leaning close. “If that’s

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playing on

I’ll feed you with a spoon, if you like.”

He opens his mouth to respond

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