“I wasn’t planning to buy you. People like you don’t interest me much. But since things turned out this way, show me what you can do. For a million,” my master orders, burning me with a look that twists my insides into a knot.
I got into trouble. Because of my father’s debts, I ended up in the hands of bandits. I was destined to become merchandise in men’s hands—and my body was put up for auction.
And imagine my shock when I saw my buyer.
A high-ranking official—the man whose feet I’d been ready to crawl to just recently, begging him to save my mother.
And now I’m his thing.
His acquisition.
His property.”