You met timid Alexandra and arrogant Branford in The Handmaid. In The Seduction, you discover Branford might not be as tyrannical as you originally thought.
In The Consummation, you felt the desire between them both as it grew and took form.
You realized life as a royal wasn't all Unicorns and Rainbows in the Shortcoming.
Can you heart handle whay is to come?
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Excerpt from The Concubine:
“I am a coward,” he whispered.
“Branford…no.” I took a step toward him.
“I am,” he said. “I’m a coward and an idiot. Alexandra, please…hear me out.”
I closed my eyes for a moment and nodded.
“I have hurt you,” he stated. “It was not my intent, yet it happened
anyway.
“You barely spoke to me,” I replied as I
turned my head and closed my eyes tightly.
“You would not have wanted me here,” he said
quietly. “I have been…”
He stopped and sighed heavily, approached me,
and dropped back to his knees. I looked
down to see him once again and reached out to touch his rough cheek.
“I wanted you here,” I said. He shook his head.
“I am…”
Branford paused, and when my fingers brushed his face, I could feel his
jaw clenched tightly. “I am afraid. Afraid for you. I brought you into my world to insult King
Edgar, and insult him I have, but he does not intend to take the insult out on
me and my army. He plans to take it out
on you. I have put you in terrible
danger out of arrogance and lust for revenge.”
He grasped his thighs as he looked up into my
eyes.
“I never should have brought you here,” he
whispered vehemently. “You are in peril,
and it is my fault! I am to blame! How can you look at me, knowing I did this to
you? Now that you know what he will do if
I do not have an heir soon or if I refuse Whitney next month—he will not
just…just kill you.”
He stopped speaking abruptly, and I could
sense the pounding of his heart in his chest and see the panic in his eyes.
“I did not want you to hear him speak such
things,” he said.
“He has said worse,” I said, presuming.
“He has.”
I saw and felt his anger blaze in his eyes. “I will not allow you to be touched, my
wife. I would…I would sacrifice my
kingdom before I would allow that to happen.”
“Branford, you cannot—”
“I can!”
His eyes blazed. “I would
sacrifice all of them before I would let him touch you!”
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