At Our Wedding Feast, My Husband Introduced His Mistress, So I Asked the Bishop for an Annulment novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: Midwinter
"He'll never pay," Isaline said.
Casimir looked down at her.
"My father has no money, or he wouldn't need my mother's. He needs me married and dead inside the year."
"In my husband's house," she said. "Where the king has already promised to look at my husband."
The maid put her hand over her mouth.
"Let Lothaire swear it," Isaline said. "Let him stand up anywhere he likes and swear it."
"And then?"
"And then we'll see whose word the king remembers."
Nine days later the palace was so full of candles that the snow outside the windows looked gold.
The king's midwinter feast filled the long hall from wall to wall.
Every duke and margrave in the kingdom sat at the upper tables.
Three hundred other people sat below them, pretending not to stare at Isaline.
She wore dark green. She drank water she'd seen drawn.
She watched Casimir.
The first midwinter bell rang somewhere over the city.
She didn't take her eyes off him until it stopped.
He was sitting two places down from her, eating roast goose with great concentration.
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