The new lord

ANNA’S POV

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After the encounter with Andrew, we had retreated to an inn that kept us warm for the night, even when I had bathed thankfully the inn gave hot water, I had washed laying down and waited for my husband, he stayed sitting at the small fireplace his thoughts astray,

I knew in his heart he still felt mad that he didn’t know what had happened to me, yes I had told him nothing, not the market nor the fact that I was kissed by that bastard Phillip, I wanted him to be less worried, I was too broken to share my insecurities, he side he loved but how far would that love go before he started seeing the real me, the me that I tried to hide for so long

I drifted up, turning the other way, we didn’t sleep close to each other that night, but I felt when the bed dipped and when he laid down, my heart hollow with worry as to what would become of us,

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The next day we had made another long journey through the kingdom and back to the capital, making it by dawn, the servants were