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LioraThe next day, I woke with a throbbing headache and a body that didn’t feel like mine.Every muscle ached, and every breath cost something. I lay still for a moment, staring at the ceiling, relearning the simple fact that I was still here. Still alive. After last night, I hadn’t been entirely sure I would be.I tried to roll onto my side.I let out a sharp, involuntary cry before I could stop it. Pain surged through me, raw and intimate, marking my body like a map of everything that had happened. The marks were visible, impossible to hide or ignore.I lay back and stared at the ceiling again.He was gone. The other side of the bed was cold, the sheets barely disturbed on his side, as though he had risen and left without a single moment of hesitation.A knock broke the silence.“Who is it?” My voice came out hoarse.“Kelly,” a man replied through the door. “Housekeeping.”I pulled the blanket up to my chin just as the door swung open. A young man in a uniform stepped inside, his e

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Alessia“Is this the princess?”The voice came from my left. The court officials lined up along the hall in their bright robes, smiling their practiced smiles. Their eyes moved over me the way men’s eyes do when they think looking is the same as owning.“Rare beauty,” another one uttered. “The king is very lucky.”I kept my face calm and my expression pleasant. My mother had taught me that before any of this happened, before the war, before the betrayal, before everything I had known was turned to ash. A woman’s face in a foreign court is its own kind of weapon. Show them what they want to see. Give them nothing real.I stopped in front of the king and bowed.“You may rise, my beloved concubine.”I rose. I smiled, a small, soft, and harmless gesture. The smile of a woman who has surrendered. A defeated princess.And then I made the mistake of letting my eyes move.He was standing to the king’s right—exactly where a first prince should stand. Tall, calm, and dressed in quiet authority.

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Alessia“I can’t believe you would do this to your husband,” the prince said.He said the word "husband" like he meant for it to hurt.I stared at him. The blade in my hand, the sleeping king behind me, and the blood on my palm. Everything I had carefully planned—he had seen it.And now he was standing across the room wearing that expression I had spent months trying to forget.“How long have you been standing there?” I asked. My voice gave away nothing.“Is that really the tone you want to use with me right now?” He tilted his head slightly, the corner of his mouth lifting. He was enjoying this. He was actually enjoying this.He started walking toward me.“What are you doing in my chambers?” I kept the blade between us. “At this hour.”“I’m here to witness your night with my father,” he spoke gently. “But who could have thought that instead of seeing you moaning under him,”—his eyes moved briefly to the king’s sleeping form, then back to me—“you were busy scheming against your husban

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