Different rumors circulated around the capital of the Asterian empire every day. They could be about nobles ladies' good and bad reputations, politics, the imperial family, and noble families, but one...one event shook the entire nobility, and it did not take few minutes for the entire capital to know about it.
First, the commoners discussed about it;
''A wedding invitation?''
''Yes, duke hayes invited nobles to his wedding.''
''But I thought he married the grand duke's only daughter five years ago.''
''Idiot not her...he is getting married to a commoner, his mistress.''
''He is getting a second wife?!''
''Yes, that annalise cromwell is becoming the second wife of the duke, and their wedding is at noon.''
''But why? He is not divorced from the duchess yet?''
''I heard it is because of that.''
''What?''
''I heard annalise cromwell is pregnant with the duke's first child.''
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