Forty-four:
Fiona Fallon
All eyes were on me.
They always seemed to be.
I was at the Royal Orange Academy finally, after a weekend spent with my cousins. I was left mostly alone because Lotte was comforting Zoe and the boys never seemed to be in the house. Duchess Issa had tried getting me to go to a charity function or something but I wasn’t up to having a bunch of people stare at me just then because I was Prince Adrianus’s fiancé. At least, the world believed that I was because that was what they had told everyone.
“She’s too scrawny.”
“Red hair? And freckles? They’re children are going to look horrifying.”
“I heard she was being sexually assaulted by the Prince of Scotland, and that was why she came h
