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CAMILA
“Seven days and all your debts are wiped clean.”
Seven days.
It sounded so trivial.
But seven days could be a lifetime when you handed your body to an Ulsen male. And that was exactly what he was asking me to do.
His offer took me by surprise. With all his money and wealth, what was a measly few thousand credits?
But he was insistent. “You will belong to me for the next seven days and seven nights.”
“I… I need to think about it,” I stammered.
“You have until you leave this room to decide.”
“How long is that?”
“One minute.”
He just stood there, peering down at me.
One minute to decide whether or not to do something that might change me and my life forever…
Could I give myself to him?
Could I sell myself like that?
I thought of my father and realized that, for him, I would do anything.
Even this.
I raised my chin, met Rayaw in the eye, and extended my hand. “Seven days?”
“And nights.”
I didn’t want to commit to that, but I had no other choice.
“And nights,” I said back to him.
He took my hand and barely shook it. My hand remained where it was, frozen in place.
“But you’ll hire me as a maid,” I added hastily. “I don’t need gossip circulating about what we get up to here.”
He grinned. “A maid? Are you sure you can play the role?”
“I know I can!” I snapped. “And know this: I will not enjoy a single minute of it.”
“You don’t need to enjoy it,” he informed me. “Just make yourself available to me.”
Available to me.
I glared at him as I passed through the door, leaving me alone in the palace hallway—leaving me to puzzle over how on Earth I was going to survive his attacks for seven whole days and nights…
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