Chapter 14. My Name Isn't Josie

Josie's POV

"You're not going alone," Weston said.

"The card says alone."

"The card says a lot of things. I've watched my father eat men alive over dinner. I'll stand behind your chair and not say a word."

"You'll stand behind my chair and he'll watch you instead of me," I said, "and he'll learn everything he wants to know from your face. You can't help it. You look at me like I'm about to fall down a well."

He opened his mouth and shut it again.

"I'm going alone," I said. "Because he asked me. Not you."

He didn't like it. He let me do it anyway, which I've come to think is the most expensive thing that man knows how to do.

The king's private dining room was smaller than I'd expec