Chapter Eleven
A Feast In Her Honor
While the pageant was intended as a humiliating spectacle for the peasant crowd, the feast that followed was for the Duke’s noble court, a higher class of citizen: the Duke’s friends as well as those he wanted to impress. He was lucky to have several travelers and a few merchant caravans there to share in his victory celebration. From their mouths, the word would spread to those who would take notice. Lord Draydon would learn that his niece was in the hands of his fiercest enemy, while General Drago would be humiliated to learn how his defenses had been breached and the prizes he’d so swiftly collared were now the property of a better, smarter, more able man—an adversary due Drago’s respect. Duke Wilhem wanted it known far and wide that the Lady Roslyn
