Chapter 4

Edward was gone, but the mess he left behind was still hanging around.

Rewards from the palace were carried in one after another, flooding the main hall until there was barely room to stand.

The madam was grinning so wide her cheeks might split, eyeing me like I was her personal gold mine.

But I knew this money was trouble.

Edward was out to humiliate me, and he wanted to back me into a corner.

He thought he could bury me in cash and make me surrender.

Too bad for him, he underestimated me.

I loved money, but I loved…