My mother sold her soul to the Goddess of Winter, and mine along with it.
,Camille Drygen was Starten’s most powerful woman, and I was my mother’s biggest disappointment. As she brushed my black hair, I could almost feel her eyes boring into the back of my head. I clenched my jaw and closed my eyes as the bristles dug into my scalp.
“You have embarrassed me for the last time, Blanche Adriana Drygen,” she hissed. “Roger will have nothing to do with you after such an outburst. Do you want to be a spinster? Do you want to end up alone and penniless?”
Grabbing my shoulders roughly, she forced me to turn and face her. Her hazel eyes locked on my violet ones. Her eyes held more than anger. I could sense her fear.
“You cannot marry me off to get rid of me. I am barely nineteen years old and f
