I Was The Perfect Queen But He Forgot My Name Chapter 48
After the gathering, quite a few people asked my cousin about me.
Several were the exact candidates my mother liked best.
But she waited and waited, and not one of them came for a formal visit. When she investigated, she found that every one of them had become engaged to someone else in a very short time.
I didn’t need to guess who was responsible.
My feelings were complicated, though I also felt secretly relieved.
At least for now, no one would push me toward another political marriage.
More and more, I failed to understand this world. If packs only wanted to send their capable daughters to another territory to become a mate and a social manager, then why teach them how wide the world could be in the first place?
In the summer, Stella and I went to the lake district to escape the heat.
She rowed out to pick lotus blossoms in the middle of the lake. I stayed in the pavilion to rest.
Iris appeared unexpectedly.
She had already registered a marriage with a local administrative officer who was soon to be posted to a remote district. She would be leaving the capital with him.
She said she wanted to say goodbye.
I didn’t believe her.
“We aren’t close. You don’t need to tell me when you’re leaving.”
Her eyes looked hollow and tired.
The clear-eyed girl I had first met seemed to have vanished.