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#Chapter 8: The Scars

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Elowen

The Queen and I sat across from each other in the wreckage of a dinner that had lasted twenty minutes.

My etiquette training covered greetings and table manners, the correct form of address for a duchess versus a marchioness. Nobody had taught me what to do when your future husband called the marriage a sham and walked out before the second course.

I was finished. He didn't want this. He'd said it plainly enough for the entire room to hear.

But the Queen recovered faster than I did. She
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