"Vikander Territory currently prohibits entry to both the royal family and the Madeleine duchy."
So that was it.
The reason why every emissary dispatched to Vikander Territory had returned empty-handed. Even his trusted deputy, Lord Huxley, had never once laid eyes upon Olivia.
The Duke of Madeleine directed his gaze toward one corner of the banquet hall. At the end of that frigid stare stood Olivia—or rather, Olivia encircled by two knights and the Grand Duke himself.
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