He Broke Our Betrothal at the Midwinter Ball, So I Wed the Grand Duke Before Dawn novel · Chapter 17 of 32
Chapter 17: The Gate of Frostmarch
She rode past Fort Hale on the first morning.
Imperial soldiers in white and gold manned the walls where the wolf banner had flown.
A captain looked over her Sunhallow seal and waved her through without a word.
She did not ask what had become of the Duke's garrison.
After that she rode up the north road in the last week of the thaw, with a Sunhallow escort of six and a hired mare.
The road was wider than she remembered, and there were new mile-stones, carved with the wolf.
At the first village the children stared at the red cloaks.
At the second, an old woman at a well looked up and put down her bucket.
"The Duchess," she said, and then louder, as if she had been waiting five years to say it. "That's the Duchess come home!"
Thessaly kept her seat, though her hands had begun to shake on the reins.
At dusk the Keep rose out of the hills on its black ridge, with its windows lit.
The gate was open.
A tall young woman stood in the middle of the road with her skirts hitched up in both fists and her hair coming down.
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