Annalise POV Judy’s words were still ringing in my ears long after her hand left my cheek. “.. Who the hell do you think you are?. Disrupting the peace of two kingdoms,” she’d spat, her voice sounded like acid and venom. “Since when did you grow so close to Prince Nathan that he would dare try to pick a fight with Alaric for your head? Wait..” Her lips slowly curled into a sneer sharp enough to draw blood. “Don’t tell me.. Did you whore yourself to Nathan? Did you?” I slowly shook my head in a bid to say No but the slap came before I could even make the first sign with my fingers. The sting bloomed hard across my skin, hot, painful and humiliating. My hand had twitched, mid-air, caught between defiance and defense.. but Maren hadn’t yet translated, hadn’t yet explained. Judy’s palm had been quicker. “When did you get so brave as to speak back at me? Since when did that rubbish play start?” she hissed as she spoke to me, venom dripping with each word. Then her fingers
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