Chap 49

Amelia's POV

I was sure that if Damien was looking at me when I asked that question then he would have raised his eyebrows in surprise at my harsh tone.

Because that was what Elena was doing right now as she looked at me.

Perhaps it was because Damien was not physically here that I had the courage to say those words to him but it didn't matter whether it was courage, annoyance, or deep sorrow at the reality that Damien was choosing that had pushed me to the wall.

The truth remained that when I had thought the bidding market was all Cassius's idea, it had been the idea of the one man that I believed could not have been capable of suggesting such, considering how he did not treat slaves like property or abuse them the way Cassius did.

What was worse was that the idea had come to his mind because of me. That he believed he was doing this because he had no other choice. That he could see no other way out to save me.

It made me complicit in the bidding market plan, whether I like