Chapter 35: The last dinner

  Anya decided to apologize no matter what.   “Well, I apologize if I entered somewhere I should not have.” Anya said Daniel could easily hear the confusion in her voice.   Daniel looked at her while considering what to say. He wondered if she would protest. He had just come to understand that Anya was headstrong and independent, but most of all independent of him.   She could mix with others, but she kept a clear line between them.   “From now on, you’re staying home,” Daniel declared, his voice firm with authority. “You’re confined to the estate until you’re fully healed, understood?”   Anya’s eyes widened in shock at Daniel’s decree. Confined? Her? Why?   Was she a live-in concubine from an ancient era? He was actually confining her at home. She had known that Daniel was a bit extreme, but she hadn’t expected him to confine her to the estate like a prisoner.   “How can you just lock me inside?” Anya protested, her voice reeling with frustration. “I can’t just stay coo