FOURTY

FOURTY

CATHERINA

Why the hell was he being sweet and nice to me when he had almost killed me, I thought as I sat in front of everything he had asked be brought for me to eat.

I could not hate him if he was acting like this and I needed to channel my anger; it was his men that had ruined my family, after all. I was at his mercy and so I had to behave because there was no way I would go back to that dungeon alive; he would have to take my dead body if he had any plans of putting me back there after all these.

There had been something about the way he had carried me gently away from the dungeons and now food? Even taking a bath in his bathroom?

Would it work if I tried seducing him, I thought as I dug into the bacon in front of me.

It was pretty clear to me that he was affectionate towards me and I was going to use that until I could get out of this hell hole and make him pay dearly.

“What are you so concentrated on thinking?” he asked, jolting me from the murderous thoughts I was having