Chapter Thirty-Eight

♕—Delilah

I hurriedly changed into clean clothes, combed my hair, and put on lipgloss. I wrapped a scarf around my neck, hiding the collar. I wore ballet flats and trotted out of the room and straight to the foyer.

Lorenzo was standing outside the front door with his back facing me, his hands in his pockets. He had heard my footsteps and without saying a word, he started to walk towards his car.

I furrowed my eyebrows, "Aren't we going to walk?"

"You want to walk around New York?"

I nodded, I wasn't allowed to leave the palace unguarded or unchaperoned, I had never walked around a city, not even when I was in Onteros. I had always been confided between the palace's walls and Lorenzo's gilded cage wasn't any different, so, now that I have this chance, I don't want to ruin it.

"That's what we agreed on? Didn't we?" I said, crossing my arms over my chest.

Lorenzo breathed out through his nose, "Fine..."

We walked down the driveway and to the front gate but as he was about to ope