“Are you sure about this?”I turned around from the mirror, the wedding gown I was inspecting rustling around my ankles.Celeste was sitting on my bed, worrying her bottom lip between her teeth.“Celeste…”“I mean…come on, Margaux. We knew that man was a monster.” She continued, “After everything we’d learned about him, the reports from the capital…”“I knew what he was.” I smoothed down the silk, twisting my back to see how it looked from another angle. “That’s why I was doing this, isn’t it?”Alpha George, Celeste’s father, stepped away from the window and turned to us with a frown on his face. “Margaux…I was still deeply concerned about this, even though I knew you had a good reason to go ahead with your plan.” His eyes found mine. “I had no idea the type of monster that man was when I agreed to the marriage alliance between him and Celeste five years ago.”No, he didn’t.Until they found me in the forest a few months later and took me in.When Alpha George investigated my claims,
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