VALORIA WILDEROSE
I take a bath and dress up in the new dress with Marcella waiting and hovering around me like a warden.
It's as if she knows that the second she leaves, I might find a way to run off and hide in a place she'll never find me for as long as possible.
She continues her fake get-up, acting like doting sisters the second we're out of the room for anyone to see, as if any of the servants watching would care if she bitch-slapped me across the face.
All of it is suspicious, but I don't question it, playing along like an obedient pup.
She practically drags me to the garden, far away from the dining hall where I'm expecting this breakfast to be, until we're drawing close to an outdoor setting with all my sisters waiting for us, sitting around a table.
As if my heart can't drop any lower than it has.
It's an outdoor breakfast, but with all seven of us alone… together. Literal hell. At least with other people present, I could make excuses to leave.
