C18 The Wolves

“Get out of here?” asked Samantha. “You’re leaving?”

“I have to. I can’t stay here. You see how the consorts treat me, and if that woman is marrying the prince, then her father will be around all the time and I—”

“What’s wrong with her father?” asked Samantha.

I didn’t feel like explaining the way he’d touched me in the library. I shook my head. “It doesn’t matter. I need to leave