Choices by Mercedes Lackey

Author:Mercedes Lackey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DAW
Published: 2018-11-26T16:00:00+00:00

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By the end of her fifth week at Court, Lena had sorted her suitors into three categories: annoying, obnoxious, and repulsive. The ones in the annoying category weren’t bad men; they simply had no interests in common with her. If she absolutely had to, Lena thought she could tolerate marrying one of them, but she prayed the King wouldn’t ask it of her. We’re talking about the rest of my life, and that could be a long time. But maybe I could marry someone who absolutely loved to live at Court while I lived in the country. The obnoxious ones were men she wouldn’t marry under any circumstances.

Lord Repulsive was in a category of his own. She had expected to like him when they were first introduced, mostly because he had his dog with him. She thought that meant they had a love of animals in common. But the more time she spent time in his company, the less she listened to whatever he was bragging about—he had one subject, and it was himself—and the more she “talked” to his dog Greta. Even though Greta liked her master, watching her view of his actions made Lena’s feelings change from boredom to disgust.

The most frightening things Greta witnessed were the reports of the courtship Lord Repulsive was giving to his father. As far as Lena knew—and she had made a point of talking to the Chronicler about all her suitors—the family was highborn, respected, well-off financially, and the father was on the King’s Council. They didn’t need her or her money, and listening to them talk about her made her feel like a trophy—before they started discussing tactics that made her feel like hunted prey and start sleeping in the clothing she had worn as a flyer. At least she could move in it, and it provided more protection than a night shift.

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