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The Plot Thickens
Hector stood by Trix's side in shock. He had never expected to catch Marcella with another man, let alone the senator Felix.
"So this is where you have been spending your days while your betrothed lay dying." Trix's voice was laced with anger at the woman.
"And if I had? He wasn't supposed to survive that anyway, right Felix?" Marcella said looking up to the man in the bed with her.
The Senator looked furious at Marcella. Obviously she had said something she wasn't supposed to say.
"That is not true. Yes I have been laying with her but the part about Lord Hector is not. Please believe me my empress." The Senator begged trying to save whatever was left of his name.
"Men arrest him." T
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