Chapter 51

Released from Keaton’s care for a moment, I moved through the room, feeling very mixed but trying to look like my entire world was the best it had ever been.

I hadn’t expected many things to be good about my first day, especially given that I was still healing, but I had hoped Keaton would have delivered something a little more reciprocal. Perhaps I had been expecting too much of this new life, but I had no way of knowing yet. There was literally no one to compare him to.

After Keaton dealt with something, talking to a man I didn’t recognize in hushed voices off to one side, he came back to me and took my arm.

“Now, Courtesan, shall we continue our afternoon together?”

“Please,” I replied. “I feel like we’ve only just begun.”

“Oh, entirely. No one has seen how deliciously fuckable you are yet. I promise you, there’s a lot still to come.”

I smiled, a part of me thrilled that he hadn’t considered the earlier performance all there was going to be, the other part noticing he’d mentioned ot