Chapter 18

Engaged.

He was engaged.

Lily did not stay for dinner. She left the hall before the prince and his fiance could return to celebrate their dinner. Wild, dangerous feelings were tearing through her and she didn’t know how to control them. She went on a rampage through the library, searching for her knives. She had been used. Her heart had been toyed with.

She was leaving this hellhole.

But she couldn’t find her precious blades. She toppled bookshelves and turned over chairs, but they were nowhere to be seen. Unsure of what to do with herself, Lily stormed back to her chambers and packed her things. She could get new knives. She could find somewhere else to live. She could start a new life under a new name—anything to leave this feeling behind her.

"What?" asked a voice, coy and knowing. Lily turned to her door where the consorts had gathered. The tall one leaned against her door frame. "You thought he actually liked you?"