Chapter 288: Salet Part 1

Leah obeyed every order given to her.

On the outside she would smile and if she saw any of her people, she would be gracious and polite, not give them any reason to see she needed rescuing and further compromise her situation.

Inside, she went through her day in a state of perpetual numbness. Too numb to realize she was suffering from acute melancholia.

Kalvich did not want to treat her as a slave — far from it. He acknowledged he was rapidly falling in love, but he would never relinquish his control. His mind constantly toiled over the two extremely strong reasons why he could not openly display his feelings at this point.