At the e): ngagement b?/anquet, the Dark L+_or!_d?^ Darius li)@?f/]ted m-y ]veil,^__ his:^@ ey*#:`es filled wi:#th (:[)disgu*,:s?$t. “The]. w)
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man I_@; wanted to mar =.ry is dead. 
: Y^et(#` ,`you %. are s:till ?alive.”`/ He bli_  n#$dfolded me, forb
iddi;_ng me *to speak[%^+, f orb.i@dd$ing me
_= to raise .my he/@ad._;^^ Tha_;t night, \
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ried 
away @/all the tear s:+ o\f my past life. Reborn, I_ returned,: to t(%he day he mis*took+% someone else for the %)one who had saved him. My sister Elise .was pret:e nding !=+ to be m,+e!#, a!]cceptin:;g hi_s marri-@a
ge$ contract in my place. ^/,Th$%is ]time, I kn/$elt b\ efore the Duchess #/first. “Pl(e* @as =e, Madam!%, arran( ge m\]y marriage as soon as poss[\\]ible too.” Lat;;+e;;#r, I m ^/ arried # the northe)+@+r-_ n Frost Lo+ rd, a man inf +_amous for;,\ hi$s*@!, cold-blooded cru. ]elty . On the day of #my wedding, Darius fought:[ his way to my -; bri )da` l carriage.