I had never felt so ashamed in my life. I had reduced myself to a petty thief and for what?

After I left the brothel, I didn’t know where else to go. I had some money in my pocket and a comfortable dress on my body but that was it.

Perhaps I should go back to Freya’s place but then what? She was expecting me to return to her with that cursed necklace. How was I going to find it without running into Dominic and getting butchered to death on the spot?

I sighed. Maybe I should return to the Highlands and submit myself to slavery. At least, I would...