We stayed in the garden longer than necessary, really, but I wanted to ensure that Mona would have already gone off to bed before I returned. I wasn’t emotionally prepared to handle looking into the face of yet another woman I had seen as a friend, knowing she had actively participated in betraying me, and pretending that nothing had changed. Everything had changed for me.
I lay in bed that night, unable to sleep. I knew I would regret it in the morning, I still had to arrange to meet with Nyssa before she left to return to the village. I just, couldn’t stop twirling all the new information I had around and around in my mind. Twice now I have been betrayed by people I thought I could trust, more than that, probably. If I was the daughter of a nobleman, more than likely I wouldn’t have ju
