Chapter Twenty
Spin had never been swept off her feet. She’d never wanted to be. Couldn’t understand why any woman would. She couldn’t run if her feet weren’t on the ground.
As a little girl, she had steered clear of the fairy stories and myths. Reality was too vivid and loud in her world. But twirling around in the arms of the Duke of Mondego, she let the scars of her childhood fall away.
For just one moment, she imagined what it would have been like had her life been different. What if her prince had come? What if a knight had swooped in to rescue her and her mom out of the dragon’s claws?
She might’ve danced as a young girl instead of escaping into music. She might’ve dined on fancy dishes every night with different things to eat instead of Oodles of Noodles. She might have met a ma
