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Chapter Forty: Nightmares

"I'm pregnant! Alba, you'll have a little brother or sister. Aren't you happy?"

The sink of my stomach was too visceral to ignore.

How was she overjoyed when I felt close enough to throw up my heart?

"But...you aren't allowed to have children with the King?"

I asked with a shaky smile on my face.

Her heightened sensitivity terrified me. So, I grew accustomed to making my gestures as friendly as possible; otherwise, she would overread them and take offence from them.

How could she utter such news as if it were good?

The only reason they permitted her to be his second wife was on the basis that she wouldn't disturb the succession by having a child with the king.

A child between his majesty and his mate might create a division in the council, and worse, what if Marko refuses to associate with me? Then...what of our promise?

"His majesty said he'd handle it. He was happy about it; you know.”

She said as she placed my brush with strands of her hair on my vanity table.

She behaved as if we
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