Do Your Best to Regret

I loved them with all my heart, yet my family never looked my way and my fiancé never once returned my feelings—my mother was wrong, and fourteen years of unrequited love taught me that doing your best does not make sincerity reach those who refuse to see it. When I finally resolved to leave that painful life behind, I met him again: the celebrated war hero Grand Duke of Vicander, the breathtakingly beautiful stranger I had passed by chance on the street, now standing before me at the victory banquet as if destiny had intervened.