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Chapter 68 - Sixty Eight

Valka

"Lady Nythorn, may I assume you have been... chaste?"

The question brings me out of my spacing out. "If Lucien has not been chaste all this while, what makes you privy to ask me that sort of question?"

The Priestesses face is carved out of stone. "It is tradition to ensure the bride is unsullied. And if there has been indulgence, there must be a cleansing in time for the mating rites."

I stare at the woman. "Cleansing? Of what?"

Her eyes drop to my thighs under the pink tulle. "The cleansing of your lady parts, Your Highness, in preparation to conceive and birth the next Draemont heir. It is a sacred moment."

"Will the king's tool be cleansed too?"

The maids gasp somewhere behind and Margot sighs heavily with the designers showing forth the dresses for the last fitting.

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