“Welcome, ladies!” Raena greeted them with her brightest smile as she stood on the landing of her mansion, looking down at the women at the bottom of the stairs. There were eight of them in front of her, which meant all came apart from Lara. Excellent. “Come on, join me in the garden. Today we are going to have some fun!”
She waited for them to raise their heads, then walked through the wide-open doors of the mansion. The main hallway seemed even more sparkly than usual and as she instructed, most of the servants who didn’t have an urgent task had lined up by the wall, their uniforms in impeccable condition.
She had little time to coddle the harem, so she had to win them over in one or two meetings tops. She couldn’t afford to have them scheming behind her back at the only safe place fo
