>>18767769Tears well up in Victoria’s eyes, and she see the face of her former friend, and the girl who would have been her goddaughter had everything not gone so horribly wrong... and herself standing right there next to them. Her mind flashes to the moment she and Jeanne received the word they were going to fight for that cursed championship, and she hates herself for recalling the anger and paranoia that immediately crept up inside her despite her friend’s objections, stating the fight would never take place. She was right, of course: the fight never did happen, but not for anything that Jeanne had done.
The Queen refolds the paper, sliding it into the breast pocket on the inside of her garment, resting it over her heart. She wonders if even Claire knew that the photo had been placed so deliberately inside the frame. It would not do for anyone else to have found this photograph. Some stories are not meant to be told.
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