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Valindra’s father had come to do what she had warned me about. He wanted to convince me to marry one of his other daughters because he didn’t want Valindra to be the representative of their family. Did her scar really matter that much? Or maybe it was her quiet nature and the way she always tried to make herself so small that bothered him?
“Do you see my point?”
I pulled myself away from thoughts of his daughter, the one that I desired, and refocused on the older man before me. He had been rambling about how Akina, his eldest daughter, would be perfect for me as we sat in the room often used for meetings among the nobles. He did, of course, suggest that if I preferred Hella, whom he described as kind and patient, then that would be acceptable as well.
“I hear you, Sharian,
