Chapter 127 Old Maid

• Ava
• The garden was mercifully quiet when I finally stumbled out into it, the only sounds being the gentle trickle of the stone fountain and the chirping of crickets in the distance. Sinking down onto the edge of the fountain, I buried my face in my hands, my shoulders shaking with silent sobs.
• How did this happen to me? How did I go from a woman in love to being threatened by an Elder and being asked to be a concubine in the same night?