Trigger warning! Some content in this chapter contains dark themes.
"Your offer is too kind, but I need help finding a suitor and I am not interested in marriage like Juliana is. So, you should give her all your attention. I want to be free a little longer," said Natalie.
"Take my advice that you could still be married and free. Plenty are doing it," Vivienne said, thinking of Darius.
"Are you free?" Natalie asked, knowing that was not the case. Why should she take advice from a woman who wasn't free? "I hope one day you are truly free. You are good at facing many things but as your friends, we worry."
"Again, thank you but you do not need to worry. I am not concerned about my husband taking other women to the palace. If he could do it then I can do it as well," Vivienne shared.
"You would take other men to your chamber?" Juliana whispered, not believing Vivienne.