Their foreseen future?

The peaceful days did not return to the palace after the engagement party. With only two weeks before the wedding, the dressmaker that the Grand Duchess had found for Elena was practically stationed in her chambers, given how much time the woman and her team spent there to make Elena try on the dresses after each small change.

Some of the guests that had been invited to the party also extended their visit until the wedding ceremony, those who lived far away and were important enough to be granted such a privilege, such as the Marquis of Miraval and his third wife, or Lord Bilory, the president of the Siena Bank and his daughter, Miss Bilory. Elena understood that, although it had been around 30 years since the Empire was established, there was still enough tension with the nobles and important families in Vallas that the House of Alba needed to deal with them in the most diplomatic manner possible.<