Twenty-four
Fiona Fallon
I wanted to be far away from the castle.
I knew I wasn’t supposed to, but I didn’t care. I walked to the edge of the palace garden, and then I went through the hedge maze. I walked some more. The palace estate in general was about 50,000 acres meaning it was easy to get lost in. I didn’t care. I couldn’t be near Declan right now. He hadn’t been able to admit that he was with me, a servant girl. But he was able to pull me into his room. To kiss me and touch me and use me but to not invite me out in public like I was worthy of him. Or to stay that he loved me, only that he wanted me.
I wondered what it would be like. To be a normal girl. To not live in the castle. To have no connection to the Prince of Scotland at all. We w
