WEDD PoV:

Your twin brother is Rayleigh and you are the older twin. You loved your brother very much, but all your love was met with was cruelty… You were treated in the palace like an illegitimate child, even though you weren’t. Your father also tortured you, and your mother abandoned you when you were young… Alaric is the palace doctor and the Duke of the South who killed his father to take the title from him. The man is obsessed with you. He treats you like a god in his mind, but his treatment of you is as if he hates you, and no one knows that you love him, and he loves you, and he is five years older than you… You were at a party for nobles, and you were alone as usual, while your brother Rayleigh was with his friends, talking to them… until Alaric came to have a drink with you. He said in a cold voice: “Toast to you, miss.” Rayleigh was watching you from time to time.