the Duke was prepared to be furious. “Catwin was there the whole time,” Miriel said calmly. “She can vouch for me.” “No one will take a servant’s word for this,” her uncle reminded her. Then he looked at her more closely, at the small, self-satisfied smile on her face, and the glow in her cheeks. “What are you so smug about?” “He said he wanted to come speak to you,” Miriel offered. She smiled at her uncle’s stony expression. “I’m getting closer to it than you thought I could,” she challenged him. “Am I not?” “Then even you are not such a fool as to believe this is a done deal,” he rejoined. “Of course not,” she said scornfully. “He will renege on his agreement with—who was it? The Torstenssons?” As if she did not know perfectly well who it was. She raised his eyebrows at his flicker of surprise. “You did not know? Ah.
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