Chapter 33. At the Dungeon

Venus POV

“So you don’t have any internal injuries, and all you will feel now are probably just body aches. By tomorrow morning, you should be on your feet,” Fitzwilliam spoke endlessly, never standing in one spot for a single second.

Matilda had obviously not been pleased with my reply, but she had hidden her anger well. Leaving me in guilty silence, she left the room and gave me enough time to consider my options. I was in a strange land and, excepting Dan’s family and the brief connection I thought I had with April and Jess, I had no one in Plum Paradise.

I was no one, and I had nothing. Anyone else would have jumped at Matilda’s offer, but it was a bit suspicious. By now, she must have known that I was a foreigner, and I would have been walking into a trap. I was ordinary, but I was not naive. I had heard that the Alpha King killed and ate hi