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Lucia's POVThe Queen didn't so much as blink at the frost coming off him."I only came to look in on you," she said, all warmth. "I heard it was this lovely girl who put you back together, and I thought, since she's so gifted, she might spare a little of that gift for your brother.""She is my pers

Lucia's POVThe bread rolls in my lap were going to be my dinner. I'd already decided that much.I kept my eyes down and tried to disappear into the gold and the noise. It almost worked. Then the Queen turned that lovely, practiced smile across the table, and I knew the evening wasn't done with me y

Lucia's POVThe question just hung there between us in the dim. You care a lot about him, don't you. As if there were only one reason on earth a person might want to help someone who was suffering, and it was a shameful one.I could sense that the relationship between the brothers was somewhat delic

I don't know how long I knelt there with a king's feral brother breathing slow against me and both of us shaking. Long enough that the screaming stopped. Long enough that the whole room went very, very quiet.When I finally lifted my head, every face in the doorway had gone slack with shock. The wol