Chapter 3

I went pale and took two unsteady steps back. "Henry, our marriage was decreed by the King himself. And on our wedding day, you speak of taking a second wife?"

I added, "You're not just slapping the Grand Tutor's family in the face. You're humiliating the King, too."

"Lydia," I questioned, "it takes over a month for the army to ride from the border to the capital.

"How did you manage to travel as quickly as the soldiers? You showed up in the capital only three days after the army got back."

Lydia hadn't expected me to ask that. She…