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He did not plan to be discovered. He didn’t want her to know that he had ever come here.

It had been three nights since his future bride came to the palace, and he hadn’t summoned her to his bed. That was not the way things were done. The courtship was for the king to get to know his queen—to spend all his spare time with her—and for the queen to warm his bed and satisfy his sexual urges.

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