They Gave the Doomed Duke the Wrong Bride novel · Chapter 17 of 32
Chapter 17: The Envoy
"Don't open it," the commander said.
"Open it," said Everard. "Whatever she's come to say, I want every soul in Frostmere to hear her say it."
The gate swung back.
Seraphine came up the crag road on foot, holding her skirts out of the snow, with ten of the riders around her and the rest behind.
She walked into the yard.
She looked at the broken towers. The patched shawls. The blood on the snow.
She wrinkled her nose.
"Bryony," she said. "You look dreadful. Is that my riding habit?"
"It was," I said.
"And my fox collar." She smiled. "I'd heard you'd been selling my things in market towns. A draper in Fennick sent Father a bill of sale. He framed it. He wanted to hang it in the hall so everyone could see what a thief looks like."
"How is Father?"
"Furious. Ill with it. He hasn't been able to find a single ledger since you left." Her blue eyes went past me and found Everard. "And who's this?"
Everard was standing in the middle of the yard in his bloody shirt.
She looked at the scar. Then the face.
I watched her know him.
For one second the smile went out.
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