جميع فصول : الفصل -الفصل 13

Elena's POVBy the time Adrian reached the North, it was the seventh day after the wedding.The snow had just stopped.I was sitting in the study, reading the old Valemont family records Lucien had found for me.The pages were old.There were photographs of my mother in her youth, and the family's coat of arms.I traced the words with my fingertips, and something inside me grew quiet.For all these years, my mother's name had been nothing but the late Mrs. Valerie, the woman who'd saved the Prince's heir and died under a hunter's gun.Only now could I truly feel that she had once been young, treasured by a family of her own.She had once been a daughter whose name was written, with care, into a lineage.And now, across fifteen long years, I finally had the chance to know her again.Footsteps came from outside the door.A maid said softly, "My lady, someone has come from the Prince's domain."My hand stilled on the page.I didn't have to ask who.Lucien stood by the window and looked ba