The Alpha's Unwanted Queen
To his right stood Victoria, draped in a gown of deep crimson velvet, her chin held high as she bathed in the admiring glances of the assembly.
Down at the very back of the hall, half-hidden behind a heavy stone pillar and a cluster of low-ranking guards, stood Evangeline.
Her skin burned beneath the rough, suffocatingly high collar of a heavy woolen traveling dress. It was far too large for her, a discarded garment meant to make her look small, frumpy, and forgettable. Over her face hung a thick, dense bridal veil made of opaque white lace. It obscured her vision, turning the crowded hall into a blur of shadows and torchlight. Her hands, still raw and stinging from the morning’s lye soap, w
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