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Chapter 63 - A killer on the loose ...

A COUPLE OF WEEKS AFTER OUR HONEYMOON, I could feel the tension in the castle again. I thought we were supposed to have peace, and when I asked Lesley about it, she hesitated, which meant it had something to do with me.

The nobles that were against freeing the slaves were gaining support. The whispers in the passages grew to a point where Lorenzo appointed two extra guards to protect me. Slavery was a lucrative business and when you had people working for free, why would you want to pay them now? It was frustrating! After all the work they had done to free people who deserved to be happy just as much as the nobles did!

I retreated to the library as much as I could to get away from all the whispers. Reading soothed me. Reading about how slavery started infuriated me. It gave me more insight into why the nobles were feeling the way they were. My mind flooded with memories of the day Lorenzo rejected me. The anger in his eyes when he saw me at first and the confusion after he said the wo
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