My little Dragon Queen
Alfred finishes.
“So.” Duchess Clair’s voice cuts like a knife, brutal and sharp. Every word from her lips sounds like an executioner’s axe. “If their objective, to begin with, was to kill Lord Brendan, then it stands to reason that he has, in all likelihood, already been killed.”
Darla narrows her eyes. “You are aware,” she says. “That you are speaking of Lord Brendan, your daughter’s husband?”
Duchess Clair lifts her chin. “When it is wartime, and the lives of my people hang in the balance,” comes the sharp reply, “-I am a general and a leader before I am a mother.”
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