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The first thing Laura notices about her new husband is how easy it would be to poison his wine, given how he doesn't even have a poison tester with him. A widow on her wedding night. How tragic. It must have been all the wine he had been drinking. Seeing as she doesn't have poison readily available under her wedding garments, she has not choice but to improvise. Can dragon shifters get alcohol poisoning? One way to find out. She moves to refill his wine glass.

He squeezes his hand that was curled around her waist and she forgets all of the murderous thoughts that had been flitting through her mind.

The actual first thing Laura notices about her new husband was how he was not at all like the dummies she had practiced killing. He was taller and broader and his eyes are very gold. She looks at her as if she is the single most beautiful thing he had ever set his gaze upon and there is a tenderness in his gaze that she isn't at all trained to handle.

She had been told countless stories of the king of dragons, that he was violent and war-hungry, only out for blood and glory, that he left nothing but ash and devastation in his wake. She had been told that she needed to be strong, that she needed to kill him for the good of the many.

She had been expecting a violent man, to be manhandled and treated roughly.

She had not expected...

This.