'Malik.' Lately, a woman seemed to call the first prince whenever he was asleep.
'Malik.' Her gentle and fond melody was foreign yet familiar. The prince was sure he did not know the owner of the lady's voice, however.
"Malik." Suddenly, a fading panorama of Elaine calling him with a distressed look protruded into his dream, and he woke up in gasps in the middle of the forest.
Something terrible had happened to Lady Elaine.
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Stephanie Vulient Gustova never thought she would be overcome with horror exceeding what she experienced when Elaine fell off the horse. That is until her daughter was brought back into the duchy soaked in her own blood.
Gerard was sweating in panic when he carried Elaine's seemingly lifeless body in his arms. No one expected this kind of return from her firs
