#Chapter 67: A Difficult Reunion

I stand at the back of the line of harem consorts, awkwardly avoiding eye contact with Gwen as she keeps looking back to glower at me. Blessedly, after a time, the line starts to move forward and I am saved from continued awkwardness. Yet, as I move closer and closer to the front of the Hall, I am filled with anticipation and trepidation in equal measures. Samuel is somewhere inside of there. Is he waiting for me? Is he eagerly observing each consort that enters, hoping that the next one will be me? As excited and hopeful as those thoughts make me, my next ones fill me with dread. Samuel isn’t alone in that Hall. Somewhere there, likely beside him, stands my sister Leah. Ever since my disgrace, she’s treated me terribly, as if I was someone less than human. She took glee in scolding and punishing me. She loved to flaunt that Samuel now belonged to her. That will not change now, just because I am a consort to the King. Her mistreatment will continue. And, if things hold to how t