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For now, she dismissed Alaric's words with a flick of her ears. She hadn't asked him to leave, it didn't matter to her what he heard.

Viskani, I'm going to be blunt. Chaudry seeked me to have his children because he was worried that you, for a fourth litter, would have no daughters. She spoke, analysing the Matriarche's face. It was stupid, and I should not have given in. None of this trouble would have been caused if I hadn't.

I attacked him when he came to me, indirectly, asking me to kill your newborn daughter. It still bothered her to think about that night. He does not think she is a valid heir. Not in comparison to Julienne.

She had said her piece, and now looked to Alaric with her gaze shifting into a glare. And you. Do not blame me for your own assumptions, especially when you never bothered to bring them up to me. She nearly snarled. He had no right to be angry with her. I said we had fought and that he asked me to do something I did not agree with. I never said he hit me. You are a good man to have been willing to fight against Chaudry should that have been the truth, but you will not speak down to me.

Saying nothing more, she left to retrieve her children from Treepie.

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