“I accept the arbiter’s judgment.”
No one moved.
“Outrageous! Unacceptable!” Anya pounded a fist against her thigh.
Taylor’s teeth clenched. “Paige was supposed to pick one of us. Everyone understood that.”
Milady narrowed her eyes at him. “Really? Like how everyone understood that Paige hadn’t passed her last test at the ponygirl races?”
Taylor shut up.
Milady addressed the crowd. “There wasn’t any demand that Paige select one of the triumvirate. No one said she had to choose Anya, Julia, or Taylor. But she had to decide. She’s kept her part of the contract.”
Julia laughed, short and derisive. “This is crazy. No one’s going to take orders from a slave.”
Leo stepped around Paige, the three of them facing off against the triumvirate. Paige noted the muscles all along Le
