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Chapter One

Kate

“Move, boy!” The guard shovesme forward I stu to the hard concrete floor His hands tighten on me for ame to keep er but find

“Move!” the guard barks again I dropto keep aze falls to the floor, and I let the hood I’ mask even in with I’m taken it to not only keep irl That see me boy and I haven’t corrected them The only probleer thanto run I thought I’d be sneaking away slowly in the night Thinking I had hours to make my escape from my uncle’s house

I’d been wrong He foundonWhy he came at such a late hour, I have no idea But he had When he ca h Not only had he caught rave otten lost when I’d run and so’s land We both were picked up for trespassing by five aruards I knew I should have stuck to the road, but I was sure I would get caught buy hi forto letto him I’m his property

He’s ingrained that into ht to do with ood I have it with his could be worse

Let’s not forget uards when he grabbeda hard backhand My cheek is still throbbing Along withwhen I uard to let us go He told hi afterit Our hands have had been bound in front of us and ere loaded into the back of soe vehicle that didn’t have a top on it

I’m not sure what I want, to be honest I don’t knohich of the tould be a better choice for me—a cell or a place back in my uncle’s home I hated it there I hated it frorandirl I never knew o I was sent to hiht have only been another country, but everything I knew about one

I was left with a man who seemed to hate me for no real reason at all To hi down the days until rew up, you becahteen I’d assu

But I’d been hoping that was true and that I could finally be free of hio I had no idea He never letone of his weekly drunken poker games he has at the house I heard my name come up

He gambledwith my uncle than in that ht But I also knew I had to get out of there because he ht not win next tiames looked at me I’d even seen my uncle’s eyes roam over me a few times

So last night at hteen, I ran Apparently, I’d run the wrong way Not only had I dropped ht into a bunch of the king’s guards Now it looked like I would be going to jail Maybe that would be better than going back to iven away like a piece of property That couldn’t be legal Right? One would think, but I honestly didn’t know It’s not like my uncle sent me to school The only people who even kneas there anymore were they people who came to the house, his friends He referred to me as the housekeeper to them