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Royalty doesn’t cry

Royalty Doesn’t Cry

That’s right Tears were a weakness she could not afford She wiped at her eyes, her ar more profusely Inhaleexhale

Currently Keeley had only one re bond To the land around her It would have to be enough for everything she had planned

She sank next to Wilson, saying, "I’ll strengthen I’ll succeed"

Will you? he seemed to ask

She raised her chin "No one steals fros worth treasuring A kingdoeous fiancé--until he lied to her and betrayed her And then Mari, who’d never hurt her

Now gone Forever

A sob burst free

Royalty doesn’t cry Royalty endures

"I’ her feel like she’d sed acid "A girl without her friend"

Torin gave an agonized groan "Sorry So sorry"

Healed already? Too soon! "Your apologies will never be good enough" She swiped out her hand, sending e

Screa, "Wilson!" she frantically chased after hiain staring at her, forever out of reach

"Fine," she told hi without me I never really liked you anyway"

"Keeley?" Torin asked

Rejected by a rock "Stay out of this, warrior It’s between Wilson and itated to sit, she paced in the center of her cell Out of sight, out of ain

"Been here centuries," she h it all Even when I was shackled to the wall" With no weapon, she’d had to gnaw through her wrists to free her arrown back, she’d had to sharpen rocks and bone into blades and hack off her feet to free her legs "And he abandons me now? He’s asfinale She would finish the painstaking process of cutting the brio boom