Riley's POV
I sat at the dinner table, feeling like a small fish in a big pond. The nobles around me were all chatting and laughing, but I couldn't help feeling like an outsider.
Meredith, Damon's girlfriend, was sitting across from me, her eyes fixed on me with a mixture of disdain and amusement. She didn't miss a beat to openly taunt me about not fitting in.
"You're really something, aren't you?" she said, her voice dripping with sarcasm. "I mean, who would have thought that a little runt like you would be sitting at the same table as us?"
I felt my face heat up with embarrassment, but I tried to keep my cool. I knew that Meredith was just trying to get under my skin. And I wouldn't allow her to have that advantage over me, dealing with her kind of person wasn't new to me.
The tripl
