GEMMA
I stopped in my tracks when I saw Chloe and George right outside the door. From the look on their faces, they had heard everything that he had said to me.
"Gemma…" Chloe started. I ignored her and sailed past them, walking briskly back to my room.
Nate was right. Back when I was a slave, I didn't have the freedom to do whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted. This was an upgrade to that. I had gotten so used to being treated like a human again.
But he didn't have the right to say that to me. Because he was the reason I lost everything: my family, my place in society, and my whole life. Nate was a curse in my life.
I walked until I found myself in the garden. I didn't know why but I somehow always ended up in this place. It was the first place outside the Palace that I had been to.
