The Traitor Baru Cormorant (The Masquerade, #1)

by Seth Dickinson

“You fool.” She spoke rashly, unwisely, but with honesty. She had never wanted to care about these politics of courtship, the intrigue of who would own her and what everyone would think about it. “You cannot care for me. We’ve hardly met.”

How i spoke to boys in middle school when they said they liked me