The Duke's Masked Wife
The baron’s daughter, Alessandra Barrett, has worn a mask from a young age due to an injury. Many say if you were to see the face behind the mask, you would be cursed and die soon afterward. She is seen as a ghost, avoided by all who visit the baron's home until she becomes the duke’s wife. No one could understand why the duke would pick such a wife. Did he wish to die? What would become of the girl who once hid in the shadows but now had the spotlight on her as the duke’s masked wife? What would everyone say if they were to learn the truth that she was in a contracted marriage with the duke? Tales of Castro Nobility story timeline order - The King’s Unbreakable Wife The Knight’s Mysterious Maid The Duke’s Masked Wife
Loveless marriage (1)
The next day in Lockwood.
"My lady. Mrs. Collins is here," a maid informed Priscilla.
"Send her away," Priscilla quickly replied, not in the mood to deal with Rose. It was already hard enough to kick her son out of her house. If Edmund would be quicker with packing his things, she would not have had to deal with Rose now.
"Don't you dare," Edmund spoke up, approaching the table where Priscilla sat with a glass of wine in her hand already. "You don't drink. What is happening to you?"
"I do now," Priscilla replied, looking at the remaining wine in her glass. "I should have started the day we married so I might have put up with you better. It is quite calming," she smiled, holding the glass up to him.
Edmund couldn't understand what was happening to Priscilla. Since she returned from Edgar's home, she was acting like a different person. "Bring my mother in," he told the maid.