Chap 54

Amelia's POV

Silence.

Unending silence.

That was what kept me company for minutes? Hours?

I couldn't tell.

Not in this dark room with the windows blocked so that we could not even know whether it was day or night.

When Lydia had said that we were at the bidding market, I had wanted to argue with her that it was not true. I had wanted to ask her to prove that she even knew what she was talking about, especially because the reopening of the bidding market was supposed to be a secret until I remembered that unlike some of the maids who could vividly remember how they came to be slaves, I had no such memories.

I had woken up one day in the service of Cassius and that was all I knew. That was all I could remember. Whether I had been even bought on the bidding market, I had no idea. Only Cassius would know and I was sure that the last thing someone like him was ever going to do was give me the truth.

It was not like I could even ask him because I was tied up here with no chance of esca