He Broke Our Betrothal at the Midwinter Ball, So I Wed the Grand Duke Before Dawn novel · Chapter 29 of 32
Chapter 29: Going North
They left Averrane with six wagons and a heavy escort, and for the first time since she was twelve, Thessaly did not look back at the city.
The road north was green.
The snow had gone from the lower hills.
The ditches ran with meltwater, and the birches along the Brenn road had put out leaves the size of a mouse's ear.
She rode in the first carriage with Eskil's hand in hers.
Nerissa and Corvin followed in the second, arguing about hats.
At the first village the bell began to ring when they were still a mile off.
Thessaly sat up.
"They do not know we are coming."
"They know," said Eskil. "News of your trial has been on the north road for a week."
The villagers lined the street on both sides, men and women and children, with their caps in their hands.
An old woman stood at the front by the well.
It was the same woman, Thessaly saw, who had called her Duchess on the last day of the thaw.
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