I ate my breakfast beside the pond, enjoying the gentle warmth of the morning sun and watching the fish glimmering in the light of the rays which were creeping slowly across the courtyard as the sun rose.
I pushed aside the thoughts of what had happened with Caius in this courtyard; I didn’t regret sleeping with him, but I hated the way I was thinking about whether there would be a next time, and there were more important things for me to concern myself with than that.
I hadn’t seen Lydia when I went to ask for food, but I was thinking about her more than anything else and I was trying to find a way I could get rid of her without Caius knowing how much she bothered me.
I wondered how many other girls he had here living with him, too.
I doubted that there were only two, but I hadn’t b
