Adeline's breath caught. Her eyes widened, her hands froze. What? What?
That was all that filled her mind. She shouldn't have been too surprised. Benedict had been pining over Annora, she knew that. He made it clear that they were not friends, she knew that.
But what? He married her?
The room felt oddly quiet for a moment.
"I didn't expect you to react like that," Isabelle said, watching her closely. "I thought you didn't care about him anymore."
She didn't. She stopped caring about him. Except that was a lie. She did care about him. She held this hope that she could somehow bring him back. But she lost. Annora won. She has Edward on her side, she has Benedict on her side, she has- Dimitri on her side.
At least Cassian was back... At least. No, that was not enough. She would not accept that.
"Adeline?" Isabelle carefully asked. She wished she hadn't said it, but she did not want her to be caught off guard either.
