Just us

ANNA’S POV

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The carriage came silently into the yard, the door opening up as the guard handed out his hands to me to hold onto as I came out, at least his voice brought me back from the dark void my mind had wandered to,

The lights of the manor were still bright from the maid still being active, so I crept in quietly, the night hoots from the owls and small creatures of the night giving a bit of calmness before I trudged to the stairs of the manor The entrance was clear, but there stood a lone figure that was waiting for me,

it was Marie waiting for me, her smile wiped up her face as soon as he saw my state, she knew of mood swings from time to time, since I had bad days like that also when I was in the palace, “my lady she called quietly her face filled with worry,

I knew she felt responsible for me even though I was the one that urged her not to follow me to the house of the viscounts, she was a precious friend I don’t need them knowing her face also, so they wouldn’t poiso