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Alone in her room, Adaria watched Emilio and her father riding across the courtyard on their steeds. Even from the distance, she could tell that her father was enjoying himself. Nothing could lift his spirits more than galloping off into the distance on horseback.
If only something could happen to lift her own spirits as well.
She moved away from the window, returning to her bed with a groan. Nothing in her life was going well anymore. It all seemed like a terrible mess, and there was no one to blame but herself. Her parents might have had a hand to play in it, but that still didn’t excuse the fact that she had let this happen to her. If she had been wiser in handling it, then none of this would have happened to her.
She still hadn’t spoken to her mother, which was a task she wa
