He Broke Our Betrothal at the Midwinter Ball, So I Wed the Grand Duke Before Dawn novel · Chapter 31 of 32
Chapter 31: The Thaw
The Hall emptied slowly, and the last of the lords carried their cups away down the corridor.
The steward banked the fires and shut the doors.
Eskil bolted them from the inside.
The great room was warm and quiet now, with the long tables bare, the tapestries dim.
The hearth at the end throwing red light on the dais.
Two black oak chairs stood there.
One had a wolf cut into the back.
The other had been wiped clean by a sleeve, five years ago, in front of forty lords.
"The Hall," Thessaly said.
"You said you wanted a room where something happens."
"I said that about my mother's house."
"This one has happened to us already." He came across the stone to her.
"It is the room where you said I stand, and the Hall answered."
She looked up the length of it.
"Then it is a good room," she said, "for a wedding night."
He took her face in his hands.
"We married at dawn in a chapel," he said, "and in the Hall of Peers, and neither one of them counted."
"This is the one I wanted."
"Ask me."
"I am asking," said Eskil. "May I undress my wife?"
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