"...the day you were born with the mark on your hip, he should have told me."
Micheline nodded in agreement, clearly feeling that her aunt Maela had been wronged by her husband, who had kept this secret for so many years. If it had been her, and the man she married started to disappear for weeks at a time shortly after the birth of their child, she would have suspected a mistress or worse.
There'd been no shortage of such scandals in the Royal Capital of Gaalen, and each one had left carnage in its wake when it came to light. Duels had been fought between lords and their vassals and feuds had erupted between rivals in the Royal Court, all because of infidelity on the part of one or both partners in a marriage.
