Chapter 51

"What do you mean leave!" Silas asked, and I finally realized what it sounded like to him.

"I didn't mean it that way, I just meant that I wanted to start going for classes. Chase a degree,"

I've been indoors since I got here and it's starting to be boring.

I took a deep breath, trying to steady myself. I wasn't sure what is reply would be, but I had to try.

"I want to go to school."

He stared at me for a moment, as if he didn't quite understand what I'd just said.

Then, slowly, he shook his head, a small, humorless smile tugging at his lips.

My brows furrowed in confusion on why he was laughing and then his reply came.

"No," he said simply as if it wasn't even up for discussion.

1 blinked, taken aback by how easily he dismissed me.

"What do you mean, no? I need this, Silas. I can't just stay here. locked away like some... prisoner," I said matter of factly, expecting him to understand me.

I couldn't remain in this house for the rest of my life, I needed to do something for myself.

My fists clenched by my side and I stared at him, nose flaring. J.

He couldn't take this away from me.

"You are a prisoner," he replied bluntly, his gaze unwavering. "You forget your place, Katrina."

What?

Anger flared inside me. "You can't keep me here forever! I deserve a life, too. You promised things would be different, and yet here I am stuck, while you get to do whatever you want."

you to replace my daughter Katrina. So tell me. He asked, folding his arms and

and unclenched, words failing to leave my

But I needed this.

What use am I going to be to you if I remain indoors for the rest of my

one said

to remain with him for the test of my life, but

money all my life,

rubbing his forehead as if I was giving him a

education, you can take

He

be serious

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online lesson? What was I supposed to do with that? He sounded as if he was doing

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wanting to go to a university was that I wanted to know how it would feel to be

stress me.

university was my

fists clenched at my sides. "Online classes? That's not the same, and you know it. I want to go out,

in, his voice sharp now. He leaned forward, his elbows

"And that's final."

"I'm serious, Silas. I can't do this

he

like some sort of

raised an eyebrow, a flicker of amusement

think that's going to change if you

I was going to be beneath

intensity of his stare on me and even

this is to you? A game of

pawn. I'm

yhe sooner he understands that, thr

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