CHAPTER 29. Forced Bonds

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  “I suppose that is up to you to determine. Annaliese was a rather complicated character since she did whatever means necessary to achieve her goal. But for some, that is not a trait to be praised for.” Augustus explained.

  “If you put it that way, would that not make all of us like Annaliese? You, me, Cassian and Isaiah, we are all doing whatever means necessary to achieve our own goals, right? Even if it means using others along the way?”

  “Yes, I will not deny that. But I suppose some of us are more desperate than others.” He said with a completely straight face.

  “I don’t think I appreciate what you are trying to say, Prince Augustus.”

  “I mean no offence, I am merely making an observation.”

  I looked past his words, not wanting to argue with him over something like this when I was clearly here to get along with him. I glanced back onto the book as I absentmindedly trailed my index finger over the title.