“Why do you have this sudden change of heart? I vividly remember you saying that there was no way in hell that I would leave this castle. Ever. Not until my five years as your employee had passed.”
I wasn’t sure why I said that, but one thing that I did know, was that I wasn’t going to leave until I knew why she had had this sudden change of heart. I had been present during her previous statements, and I knew just how final her decision had sounded. She would never have done this if there wasn’t a reason for it. And I wanted to know that that reason was. She was going to tell me what it was, whether she wanted to or not, whether she knew that she was going to or not.
She was staring at me, and all of the friendliness had disappeared from her features. Instead it was replaced by th
