Chapter 7
SHAWNA HAD MADE UP her mind. She was going to see the king. All she had to do was to convince him of the truth of things. That her father’s death meant that she was kept as a slave in her own home until she ran away. That her stepmother was so evil that she would go to any lengths to make sure Shawna received nothing from her father’s legacy. To convince him of the injustice of it all.
Valorie was a villainous snake and as soon as Shawna could convince the king, he could decree that she got what she deserved—she was owed her father’s house, at the very least. She was sure it is what her father would have wanted.
Valorie and her daughters did stand to get some of it, they were her father’s new family, after all. But Shawna wanted what belonged to her as well. And she was going
