The Duke Should Divorce Me, So Why Is He Stalling My Death? novel · Chapter 19 of 32
Chapter 19: The Novice
On the seventieth day a girl in a novice's grey robe came screaming into the Veyrath hall.
She ran through the double doors with her sleeves rolled up and her face blotched with crying, and threw herself down at the foot of the great stair.
"Mercy! Mercy! Someone help me!"
Lysandra was on the landing with the steward and a ledger.
She stopped with her pen in the air.
Sixteen servants, two visiting ladies and the Prince, who had come to see Alaric about the Banquet, turned toward the noise.
[Scripted scene: The Novice. A Temple girl accuses the Duchess of beating her. Outcome: public outrage, the Prince demands justice.]
She had been waiting for this one.
She laid down her pen and came down the stairs at an unhurried pace.
"Child," she said. "What is the matter?"
The novice shrank away from her.
She was perhaps nineteen, with a thin face and chapped hands, and she pulled her sleeve back with a shaking hand.
A great blue-black bruise ran from wrist to elbow.
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