He Broke Our Betrothal at the Midwinter Ball, So I Wed the Grand Duke Before Dawn novel · Chapter 18 of 32

Chapter 18: Sixty Letters

Eskil told the herald to wait in the gatehouse and gave him a cup of wine he did not drink.

He walked Thessaly to the Keep door, put her key into her hand again as if she might need reminding, and told her to eat.

She looked at him once, with green eyes that were older and sharper than they had been.

"Come and tell me what you find," she said.

It was the last thing she said before the door closed.

He took the captain and four men and rode for the post house at the foot of the ridge.

It was the one building in Frostmarch the Empire owned.

The Imperial courier had lived there for six years, a soft, grey-faced man.

Every month he took the Duke's sealed letters south and brought back a receipt.

Eskil had kissed each of those letters before he sealed it.

He had never told anyone that.

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