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, needing an answer from this infuriating man. He ignores me again. I roll my eyes in frustration. He might as well just kidnap me. Buildings and c

ays, as though reading my thoughts. True to his words, we are approaching a settlement, I hav

e says, I'm just happy we are ditching the car. My legs are cramped from the long ride. A coach with four horses r

can. They all look so beautifully strange, like Golden hair, except, he's more beautiful, more powerful. A special breed. I'm looking at him and I can't st

, "it won't be long again." Anything, just anything to stop this pain. Mercifully, we ri

sure about my role here. I get curious gazes, some assessing, some hostile if I sense correctly. We enter a grand foyer and I'm utterly smitten looking this way and that. Sunlight

. Each step is edged in carved oak, its balustrade an ironwork of vines, cold to the touch yet impossibly delicate. Above, a crystal chandel

imidated but I look her in the eyes. "Claire." She looks at me differently, quietly assessing. I seem to pass because she directs a maid to me. "Take her to a room, get her chang

ng me to the room. It's spacious with sparse furniture. I find myself missing James, my sister. My heart longs for hom

s royalty. Meanwhile, I begin training for something I know nothing of. We are twenty trainees in total. Both women and

g and proud. Can't they see I don't belong? After a long day in training, my feelings are hurt. Gaeta has just handed me my ass ag

e. I don't care. I am sick of this place, the mysteries, Elias abandoning me. I glare back at her.

hearing me scream. Even though the pain is unbearable. A fire builds within me. I fight Nadine back. My punches

arls. "You better be grateful his Lordship thinks you are worth something. If it were up to me, I wouldn't even blink twice." Oh yes, it's like she o

if you want to survive the change halfbreed," she says t