CHAPTER 15

You’ve got to be kidding. A charity?” Samantha was screaming. “That’s what we’re calling it now? Really?”

Her heels could be heard clacking on the stone stairs as she marched in a vex. Felix was wringing his hands, a sly smile played out on his lips while his tousled hair went up and down as he descended down the stairs with his sister.

“If you wanted a woman to sleep with, just go to a damn brothel, Felix. Or wait, you don’t even need to go to one here, there are women in the streets. Cheap women. What’d you mean, charity?”

“Come on, Sam,” Felix said with a dopey grin. “It’ll be a cinch. When have I ever done something foolish?”

“First of all, Felix, you’re a man, so that already puts you at a disadvantage there, and two,” Samantha said and worked one of her hands against one of the large, bronze rings she wore on her hand, “You’re Felix. You’re quite literally the most foolish person to have walked the earth. No offence."

Felix threw a hand to his chest and used the other to cover h