Tonight, while the noblemen and women of Eana danced and mingled with the Gevrans, she was going to slip away and deliver Rathborne’s death, swiftly and silently. A nation in mourning for their beloved Kingsbreath couldn’t possibly celebrate a royal wedding in two days’ time. There would be a funeral instead of a wedding, and as Alarik Felsing’s best-laid plans fell away, Wren would reinstate the coronation she was owed and seize control of Eana. Once she was Queen, with her fate and that of Eana resting firmly in the palm of her hand, there would be no alliance at all. She would send the
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