BELLA The training area is a vast, beautiful room with high arched windows and weapons lining the walls.Her highness stands in the centre, tall, regal, and terrifying in a deep blue dress that makes her golden eyes look even brighter.She scans me from head to toe with a detached expression."Sit," she orders, gesturing to a low cushion across from her.I obey, folding my legs beneath me.She begins without preamble."A queen is not a wife. She is a weapon. A shield. A poison. And sometimes, a necessary sacrifice." Her voice is smooth, but every word is icy. "You are currently none of those things."I flinch.For the next hour, she tears into my posture, my speech, the way I look at people, and the way I breathe.It makes me want to scream. But I've always been polite to my elders. So, I can't do that.At one point she makes me walk across the room ten times while balancing a book on my head, criticizing the sway of my hips, the angle of my chin, and even the sound of my foo
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