"After everything you have put me through," I said and tossed the card aside. 

I finished eating but an awful feeling was gnawing at me. 

Why this nice gesture now after he had an innocent man killed, sent his teacher to use me like a cane sharpener and then waterboarded me?

This was all within the first twenty--four hours. There's not a chance in hell that I'm staying here but I was stuck for now-- in this palace and with him--  so it wouldn't hurt to get to know my ...