Don’t Beg for Love
She’d never wanted this crown in the first place, and I’d gone and fought for it on her behalf anyway, without asking, without even considering that she might not want it handed to her this way.
The silence stretched long enough that I could hear my own pulse in my ears, thick with tension nobody in that room seemed willing to break first.
A faint smile crossed her face then, small but deliberate. “I don’t deserve this crown,” she repeated, “not until it’s truly, honestly mine.”
I frowned. Where exactly was she taking this.
“Two weeks ago,” she continued, her voice carrying easily across the silent hall, “when the winner was first announced online, everyone knew it was someone else. Aurelia
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