Then- Opal
My heart was beating so fast , so hard that it hurt my chest. I was so afraid for him. For my Wren.
Why did he have to go and say he would take any punishment for me? Why would he do that? Put himself forward like that?
I hadn’t done the work , I was the one that should take the punishment. I had been lucky so far that I hadn’t been singled out. But those days were over.
Wren has lain claim to me. And all eyes were now on what we would do next. It was only a matter of time before Wren started to push about us mating.
I knew that was what he wanted. He hadn’t hidden that fact. And now the rest of the castle knew as well. They would start to wonder why he hadn’t claimed me. Officially. Why he was still letting me work as little more than a slave.
“You know what it is you
