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Lord Cadgan was old and smelled like garlic, and he had already tried
to feel me up twice. I was expected to marry him in a few months.
Thankfully, as he sat across from me on this crowded bench at court,
he was currently much more concerned with how much duck and pheasant
he could cram into his mouth than copping a feel up my thigh.
Times had been tough lately, but that didn’t mean all decorum went out
the window, did it? Everyone around me—servants and lesser nobles from
our estate—grabbed at the food like it would disappear if they didn’t get
their fill right this moment. I could excuse everyone’s enthusiasm
somewhat; it wasn’t often my household got to eat the same food as the
royal family. Food was scarce and hard to grow these days, and it didn’t
hurt anyone’s morality to take from the royal family’s table. It wasn’t like
they would ever starve.
That past decade had been horrific to our realm, or so I’d been told.
Growing up, I wasn’t aware of how scarce supplies were or how farms were
struggling. It was just how it’d always been. The weather, however, was
something I did notice. It would go months without raining, then rain so
much that entire fields were buried under a foot of water. Nothing could
grow that way—what crops did manage to survive were weak and brittle.
The royal family offered no relief, either. I wasn’t schooled like the boys
were, but I wasn’t stupid. The royals didn’t hold as much power as they
used to. As our lands died, so did our faith in them.
It also likely had something to do with the fact that the royal family
were all half-fae.
Apparently, beggars couldn’t be choosers though, because it hadn’t
deterred anyone from refusing an invitation to travel to the palace and eat
their food, all to celebrate the crown prince’s official engagement to his
betrothed.
Everyone around me gorged themselves, but I felt too sick to eat much.
Not that I would be allowed to. My father was an asshole like that.
He sat to my left. Various distant cousins and their household members
scattered around him. Bits of turkey flew from my father’s mouth like he
was starving. The strained fabric around his middle suggested otherwise.
And he claimed I ate too much.
“Smile more. People might be nicer to you,” my father grunted.
“Was that the same advice you gave my mother before she hung
herself?” I fired back, not having the patience to bicker like usual and going
straight for the jugular. From the corner of my eye, I watched with pleasure
as his face rapidly cycled from bright red to purple.
“Get all the use out of your foul mouth now. You only have so long
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