Claimed by the Baron
“But mother, stop crying. It would still have been rape if the Baron hadn’t taken me that day, but it would be a husband who could do it every day, over and over. So, listen, I’m all right. I would rather have these scars than be subjected to that kind of life.”
It stopped her tears, but it was still hard for her to imagine she would be safer being Fabian’s wife. She was confused and unbelieving until she observed what others observed, too. Adalene was friends with the workers in the manor, and the knights had brought her something on arrival from wherever they had been sent off. Even Sir Bertrand peeked inside her room and sang a short melodious song about birds chirping in the garden, and
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