Nadia
Mentally, I smacked myself in the forehead. What was I thinking? Of course the princess shops in the same kinds of high-end stores that Anna does. But why did she have to be here today?
Anna froze at my side. Freda, meanwhile, just crooked an eyebrow at the two of us. “Wow! I’m certainly surprised to see you here.”
It was very clear which of us Freda meant by you. I grabbed Anna’s wrist, intending to just pull us both away from Freda before this could go any further, but Freda broke in, “I didn’t think you could afford anything in this kind of store, Nadia. Or is Daddy Vincent bankrolling you?”
My shoulders tensed. Just like that, Freda had gone for the throat – a crisp reminder of her threat that if I got in her way, or did anything to draw Kael’s attention, she’d hurt Vince
