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Clair paced in her room. She wiped sweat from her brow, caused by the fever that she had brought on board. Imagining that currently Aiden was weathering the wrath of the red-haired Princess, Clair decided to forgive him for the cruel comments he had said to her. No, it wasn’t the fever that made her say those things. But perhaps it was the fever that had loosened her tongue so that feelings she had refused to voice for so long just exploded from her once tightly sealed lips. And who was she to tell Kiersten his name? Well, his future wife, of course. Aiden hadn’t liked that answer and told her he would not marry her, but instead, uphold the contract between Dulsar and Suma.
Coming to the side of the bed and feeling weakened by the illness, Clair removed her belt, weaponless since Aide
