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The Red Ball

Author: Icy Kina
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The ball that evening was the most intricate and bedazzling one she ever witnessed.

She walked in on the king’s arm and muted words of adoration went up into the air.

“Can you hear them?” The king asked. “You are the embodiment of your mother’s beauty.”

And she truly had never felt so connected with her mother as she did in this court. From across the room, she felt Zeldaurus’s burning gaze, those icy eyes drinking her in like she was a bottle of water offered to him in the middle of a desert. A thrill raced down back and she got lost in his eyes as she allowed the king to walk her forward. The ballad resumed as he steered her in another direction.

“Freya, allow me to introduce you to Prince Mondrake II of Red Cove and brilliant Commander of my armies. Prince Mondrake, this is Princess Freya, noble of birth and the most extraordinary female in the realm.”

Freya rolled her eyes but her gaze caught on the male being introduced. She had been wrong to think that the Winter court was fil
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