It All Started With Condolences
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  • Reads 587
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  • Parts 9
  • Time 11m
Complete, First published May 14, 2015
When Lord Tremaine dies the world seems to crash for our protagonist. When her second husband also dies, she believes destiny only has misery in store for her or maybe not... 

Maybe she can have more power and an even better social status than before if the most eligible bachelor, the Prince himself, chooses one of  her daughters as his wife.

But maybe her earlier fears were true...

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This short story was the first one I completed and after much hesitation I'm publishing it on Wattpad. It is just a modified version of the world famous fairy tale, Cinderella. It portrays the same story from the point of view of Lady Tremaine - the evil stepmother of Cinderella.
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