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Chapter 123

|| ELINDA'S POV ||

"You did the right thing, dear," my mother breathed, smiling up at me as she tucked behind my ear a loose strand of hair, her voice warm and pleased. "Alaric is honorable, dependable, and his folk are well-rooted in tradition. This marriage will restore all that we have lost."

I smiled. Or at least tried to.

Those same four words "right decision" echoing themselves in my head like a curse. Marrying Alaric was the smart thing. The royal thing. The safe thing. But as she kissed my forehead and floated out of the room whistling happily, all I could feel was nothing.

A hollow space where my heart should have been.

I looked at myself in the mirror—my face set in white silk and gold ornaments, the symbol of royalty. But I was not looking at a bride. I was looking at a deceiver. A woman masking her feelings under coats of duty and expectation.

I stayed awake on the eve Alaric proposed. I went without meals the next day too. But still, I smiled. For my mother. F
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