**Elizabeth's POV**

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Molly stood a short distance away, looking at my scared and messy face with a mocking and smug smile.

Oh damn it, it was her! The woman who claimed to be Julian's fiancée and had only appeared once at our wedding. I thought she had completely withdrawn from my life or given up her intention to become the queen since that day. I didn't realize she had been hiding in the shadows, staring at me like a viper at its prey.

I got goose bumps all over my body.

She noticed my gaze and said to me with her mouth shape, "I told you, I'm the queen."...