The Villainess Woke Up Mid-Confession novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: The Rest of the List
Ravielle looked up at him.
"Majesty, the paper's gone. Somebody else wrote it."
"Then you'll have to manage without one."
A few people laughed, uncertainly.
The court didn't know yet whether it was allowed to.
Ravielle stood on the open floor where she had knelt thirty days ago.
Her father was still beside her.
She didn't kneel.
"The paper had most of it right," she said. "I'll not read it again. You all heard it. But it left things out, because the woman who wrote it didn't know them."
She turned so she could see the family bench.
"Madam."
The duchess went very still.
"From the age of twelve, I read the letters you wrote to your sister," Ravielle said. "Every week. I steamed them open in the laundry and sealed them again. And when there was something in them Father wouldn't like, I made sure he heard it."
Nobody moved.
"You never knew how he always knew," she said. "It was me. For six years."
The duchess's face had gone the color of paper.
The duke turned his head and stared at Ravielle.
"I can't give it back," Ravielle said to the duchess. "I don't know how anybody could. I'm only telling you so you know you weren't imagining it."
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