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[nofarewells]

Alice wasn't quite sure why she'd decided to tell her cousin. It... was something he would never need to hear about, if she never found her son again - but... it was his right to know, she supposed, as the head of the family. And there was still the remote chance of Liam being alive, in which case... maybe he could help her.

She had asked a maid to summon him to her study, where she sat in an anxious wait. Alice had always been great at keeping secrets - revealing them, however...