"Puppet?" Ava asked. She felt numb, as if she'd been forced out of her normal state of being.
Jace ignored her, he obviously wasn't sorry for what he'd said. In the actual sense, that's just what she was to him - a means to an end.
He turned his gaze away from her, going back to his position.
The sudden feeling as if she were floating in a sea of uncertainty overtook Avalynn.
He'd just referred to her as a puppet, which meant that was exactly what he saw her as. She felt her pulse thumping in her chest, as she wondered if that was how her marriage was going to turn out.
Would she have to obey him no matter what, just like a puppet does its master? Would she have to give up control of her own life and let him direct it? A sense of fear and uncertainty rose within her, threatening
