They Gave the Doomed Duke the Wrong Bride novel · Chapter 27 of 32
Chapter 27: Every Name
The whole hall turned to look at Seraphine.
She went white to the lips.
"That's a lie," she said. "Father, how could you..."
"The guard on the north road," my father said, to the King and not to her. "A thin man with a brown mustache. She paid him out of her pin money. I found out after the column left, and I kept quiet to protect her." He shook his head, sorrowful. "I see now I should have let it hang her."
"You told me to!" Seraphine screamed.
The court flinched.
"You said the boy was the last Draycott. You said while he lived, the Duke's name lived. You said, a pity about the boy, someone ought to see to it."
"I said it was a pity," my father said. "I never said do it. That was never my idea."
"You sold four thousand men for my silks!"
"And you paid for a child's death with my money!"
They were shouting now.
At each other, in front of the King and every lord in the kingdom, on the steps where she should have stood tomorrow beside her prince.
She called him a thief. He called her a murderess.
She said he'd opened wine the night the news came from the Pass.
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