“How can you have allowed this to happen? Have you no control over that woman at all? She makes mockery of us! Who is she, to thus issue commands and take out an armed guard from the Keep! Who is she, to decree all this so highhandedly!” Regal’s voice cracked in his fury. “My wife,” Verity said mildly. “And your Queen-in-Waiting. The one you chose. Father assured me you would choose a woman worthy to be a Queen. I think you picked better than you knew.”
