CHAPTER NINE.
The sun is already rising yet I could barely sleep through the night as my whole body aches. My eyes remain glued to the window in the hopes of some miracle lifting the barrier away will happen. Just as I attempt to stand up from the bed, a pain shoots through me, a reminder of the event that occurred yesterday night. An event I don't want to remember.
Behind the door, there's a sudden shuffling that earns my attention. I look up just in time to see Isadora and three women enter. I can tell they're palace maids with how they're being herd by Madam Leticia — the same one who had come to prepare me last night with two other maids.
“No sleep for the wicked. Rise don't shine,” Leticia bellows, clapping her hands together as she drags the bed cover off me and throws me off th
