"Oh!" She exclaimed. Her cheeks flushed in embarrassment. How could she have missed someone walking that close to her?! "Please, forgive me. I didn't - I was thinking of my husband...my late husband." She corrected quickly. Normally, she wasn't one to speak ill of the dead, but Edmund was a bloody bastard. And a cheating bastard. And a dead bastard.

Fuck. Edmund was dead. Even now, a month after the news, the revelation took her breath away.

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