Don't Fail Me

Before Elizabeth Byron became the wife of King Leonard Byron and Queen of Raester, she was Elizabeth Venezia.

Daughter of Elder and Lady Venezia. Members of the Royal Council and Highborns and sister to Astrid Venezia.

Life was perfect.

That was until there had been a fire that burnt down their house and every possible asset that their family had. Elizabeth had been in boarding school at the time and Astrid was spending a sleepover at a friend's place.

Both their parents, dead, and all the possible things they could have inherited, burnt along with them.

Many times, Elizabeth would tell herself that it must have been someone who hated her parents that caused this, but she could never truly prove this so she stopped thinking of it.

When she had returned from school, she found out that her baby sister, Astrid, had been sent to an orphanage as no Highborn family would take her, and neither would they take her.

At first, she hadn't believed it, but with the months that passed, she realiz