Chapter Five
She shouldn’t be there. The palace was no longer a welcoming place to Amalie Leroy. She’d once been as a daughter to the queen. But that disappeared when they disagreed on her people’s fundamental rights and the way to achieve justice. It vanished when the royal guard seized her father’s estate, law or not.
Amalie no longer trusted anyone in power. They all had motives beyond the wellbeing of ordinary citizens.
She sat in the hall, eating too-rich foods beside guards and servants. There was another place for nobles and their parties to dine, but Amalie no longer thought of herself as one of them. To their eyes, she was Lady Leroy, always clad in beautiful gowns and adorned with jewels.
But in her mind, the only identity that mattered was the Hood.
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