Amber.
I was standing in the middle of the garden, watering the plants at the back of the mansion. Of course, it wasn’t just me. The other girls were busy chattering away about boys and clothes, their laughter floating through the air like nothing in the world was heavy.
They usually had two days off from their work schedule—well, except me. I had never left the walls of this mansion. All because I was bought.
And just today, when I thought about leaving and breathing different air, about going to the hospital to see my mother—at least that was the one thing on my to-do list when I woke up—I found my heart shattering instead. I felt like it had been broken into too many pieces to count. The one priority in my head had automatically been replaced by the image of Zeden’s betrayal. Would
