The duel had gone poorly. No. The duel had been a fucking mess. It was the heir to House Morgan. Violet, her name was. Or Daisy. Something like that. All the girls in that House were named after flowers. He hadn’t thought anyone there knew anything about his relationship with Rose, but someone must have suspected because what should have been a fairly easy challenge had turned bloody. Marigold or Peony or whatever had wrapped him in a Briar Rose illusion—a forest of thorns he’d had to fight his way out of. He’d been able to do it, but they’d sunk in and cut deeply before he’d finally broken
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It seemed obvious that we should suspect Grey in regards to Rose's death but I did not expect him to be the one to mention it first.
