Page 43 of A Lady of Means (Roses and Rakes #1)

Chapter Thirty-Four

D-

Where are you? Where have you gone? The report I read said that we may never know where you made your flight, or found eternal rest.

I know this: you will be safe in my memory until there is nothing left of me.

It isn’t the same as the kind of heralding infamy promised a warrior, but it’s all I have.

You used to say that you didn’t have much to give me and I wish you’d seen how much the reverse of that was true.

I was never much of an offering for your hand, but a devoted one.

Your silent soldier,

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