icy blue eyes cataloged all; the looks given and taken, how long curtsies and dresses were, and most importantly, where the king’s attention wandered. he picked people apart with as much ease as he did laws and treatises, finding flaws and loopholes in equal measure. Viktor was a man whose noble lineage had guaranteed him a spot at court, but it was his shrewdness and his various talents which had earned him a place at the king’s council. there was no one who had the king’s more than him, for whose opinion was more highly valued. he was a constant over the years, even when everyone might not have been him. as an unwed man, it had been joked that he was married to KING&COUNTRY instead. though he will make his rounds and come to inspect the character of every new woman, he decided to meet first with the one who held her head so high.
“who are you?” his gaze looked over her form, but it was one that seemed far more calculated than lecherous.
THIS WAS HER FATHER’S BIDDING, to be dangled before men like meat, to use her beauty & charm to attain greater wealth & status. in an age of MEN, to be governed by MEN& their desires, there was nothing to oppose him, she was a pawn to acquiesce to his many requests. a WOMAN could not hold her own place even if she ha artfully avoided marriage for some time, slipping from every match her father attempted to arrange. there was no escaping him now. no fleeing. & with her mother no more a corpse, there was no guidance, no one she could turn to.
❛ Adelind, my Lord. simply, Adelind. ❜
she had no title & it was a fact she often exposed to embarrass her father. well, that & what his true place was - a servant to a man with greater power & wealth. on her knees she remained, eyes diverted out of formal respect, stealing glances as she could, awaiting a hand to aid her in rising to her feet.
❛ my father manages the estates for Lord Haber, a member on the King’s council. his Majesty so graciously invited me to court when we had met at Lord Haber’s home. ❜
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