Lahat ng Kabanata ng Surrogate for the Alpha Prince in a Coma: Kabanata 11 - Kabanata 20

The royal escort drove me back to Shadow Creek on a gray morning. Two guards sat in the front of the black car, and neither spoke. I wore my palace tunic with the sleeves rolled, my mother's locket flat against my collarbone, and a kitchen knife strapped to my calf beneath the trouser leg.I'd taken

The training grounds smelled like sweat and trampled grass and iron. I stood at the edge of the field in the fitted black pants and sleeveless top they'd issued me, my hair braided tight, my boots laced to the ankle. The lash wounds on my back pulled when I rolled my shoulders, but the pain had shru

Lillian’s POVI pulled the hem up to my ribs. The skin along my left side was purple and scraped raw where I'd hit the stairwell railing. The old lash wounds on my back had reopened in two places, thin lines of red seeping through the closed skin.Grayson knelt beside the bed. His hands were steady.

Or I had thought he was teasing. In hindsight, he was likely mocking me openly.Piers seemed different. He was listening attentively, like my opinion mattered.“If you like paintings, then you must see the galleries here,” Piers said. “What do you say? How about you and I sneak out of this stuffy pl

Lillian’s POVEarly the next morning, as I tried to sneak down to the kitchen for breakfast, I barely made it into the main hallway, before Josephine spotted me, rushed toward me, and slapped me across the face.I hadn’t even seen her coming. It wasn’t until I felt the sting on my cheek that I under