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A few guards came with us, but I know who they were here for, and who would be the last fae they’d protect if danger came near.

“Did you really think he would let you come alone?” she asked as she walked past me to pick up an Ocean Realm dress.

“Why does he care, Bronwen?” She didn’t have to say his name for me to know who she was talking about.

“Ask him,” she mumbled as she held the dress to her body and looked down at herself.

Yeah. That’s not happening.

After the initial shock of seeing her faded I thought about her words.

She might begin to suspect something.

That . . . that bastard said he wouldn’t tell anyone.

I wanted to say something to her. But I couldn’t with the three in the next room. Even though they were probably too focused on Nathara picking her dress, they could still hear us if they wanted to.

“Would you like to return to the castle with me? I’m sure your company wouldn’t mind.”

I looked back at the doorway to see Celine and Lilian standing around Nathara as the seamstress placed a veil on her head.

I simply nodded in response.

“He told you about me and Calum?” I asked as I crossed my arms. We were already out of the city and riding down the long path that took us back to the castle when I finally interrupted Bronwen’s nonstop talking about how ugly Nathara’s dress was.

She scrunched her eyebrows at my question before a look of horror came across her face. “No. But you just did.”

“But you said—”

Bronwen cut me off. “I said that more as a joke.” She let out a sigh. “But I’m not surprised.”

“What do you mean?”

“Imagine having someone that looks like you locked away in your home, with no contact with the outside world, just available at your beck and call. I don’t know of a male who wouldn’t jump on you and keep you all to themselves.”

“It’s not like that,” I said, taken aback by her words.

“Isn’t it though?” She leaned forward. “Have you been given the chance to be with another? To even see what else is out there? You don’t have to answer because I already know.”

“He loves me.”

“I’m sure he tells you that.”

Bronwen’s words hurt me. I knew I didn’t have to explain our relationship to anyone, but she was the only friend I had ever made.

I didn’t know what to say after she said that because one thing I had learned was that Bronwen had her opinions, and no one could change them.

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Chapter 21

Sebastian

“What did you say to her?”

I transferred into Bronwen’s room after I saw her and Violet arrive. Violet was clearly bothered by something. She was trying her hardest not to show it on her face, but I could feel her.

She was upset, and I knew who to blame: Bronwen and her big ass mouth.

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