“No.” My smile faltered. I hadn’t just sealed my fate for nothing, now, had I? “What do you mean by no?” “I mean that it isn’t time for that just yet. Today, you’ll be attending your first etiquette class, and it’s outside the mansion, so there’s no need for you to worry.” I was on the verge of beginning a protest but the last part of Chase’s sentence soothed me. The etiquette class was going to be outside the mansion and, in my books, that was a win. I also remembered the event that Chase talked about a while back. If Chase and I were going to be seen together in the judgmental eyes of society for the first time, I wanted to make it good. There was no way in which I would be embarrassing myself or Chase. The egotistic little w***e in me would never allow it. “Fine, let’s go.” Chase

