Vienna could think of nothing but the queen and her words as she was taking a walk in the garden, the same afternoon. She would be the queen's slave and report to her directly. Any small act of rebellion on her part, and it was going to be her execution. The queen would take her life, ruining Damien's life in the process, and she would not even be able to tell him the truth. If she did, she would risk both Damien's as well as her life.
Vienna's head spun from the complexities of the queen's madness. Only one week earlier, the queen had wanted to transfuse the slaves after drying them up first. Now she had found a new way to make them useful while simultaneously abusing them, by having them bear children who would serve no one but her. Queen Anne went from one plot to another too quickly f
