The Alpha Postponed Our Wedding, So I Married Another novel · Chapter 23 of 32
Chapter 23: Stowe House
"When?" I said.
"An hour ago." Prue pressed a hand to her side. "The footman took it inside. He saw me looking, so I smiled like a farm girl who'd got lost."
I looked back up at the salon windows.
Through the glass, Gareth was laughing by the fire with his wine.
Every room open. Even the cellars.
He hadn't been boasting. He'd been telling me where the commander was.
Back at the palace, Alaric heard it all standing up.
"Tonight," he said. "Over the area railings."
"And a burglar in every paper by breakfast," said my grandmother from her chair. "No."
"He invited you, darling. In front of twenty Councilors." She sipped her tea. "Go in by the front door, like the guest you are."
"And me?" said Alaric.
"You go in by the kitchen. Kitchens never question a man who walks like he's expected."
The Stowe house blazed on the corner of the river square the next night.
I wore the midnight-blue dress with the silver wolf tracks.
Prue wore my grandmother's old green velvet, taken in with eleven pins.
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