The Alpha Postponed Our Wedding, So I Married Another novel · Chapter 17 of 32
Chapter 17: Frail
"She can't stay," I said.
Alaric came up behind me at the window, buttoning his trousers.
He looked down at my sister picking her way across the snow.
"She can," he said. "He's the envoy. She's his guest. The princess can't throw her out without a reason."
"She'll give her one."
"Probably." He kissed the top of my head. "Go and wash. You smell of me."
"Is that bad?"
"For her," he said. "Very."
By breakfast, the whole sanctuary had met Lavinia.
She sat at the long table in a pale blue silk dress with her fur wrap around her shoulders, eating nothing.
She asked the cook for warm milk with honey, and thanked her so sweetly the cook went pink.
She asked the tall clerk about her family, and remembered all of it.
She told the Lakewood girl her hair was the prettiest at Highmoor.
She didn't look at me once.
I knew that game. I had watched her play it at every dinner of my life.
Gareth sat beside her and cut her toast into fingers.
I ate my porridge.
Across the table, Prue was watching my sister.
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