Chapter 225: Chapter 225: Caste System

They ate in silence for a while. "Tell me how you became an agent," he said.

"On my nineteenth birthday, Parnell was there. He is a friend of my father's. My family didn't want me around." Her father had sent her to boarding school after the kidnapping and refused to see her for the next nine years. " I decided to go with Parnell and become one of his agents." She shrugged. "And that's what happened." She didn't tell him that Parnell had been a close friend of her father's. That she'd met him when he came to visit, and he'd suggested she came to work for him when he saw how unhappy she'd been. Parnell had told her he'd show her how to become strong. To prove herself and to get back her family's love and respect. He'd told her he'd show her how to become a strong, successful woman that her father would welcome back with open arms.

"You are angry that your family did not want you?"