Next morning with Samantha, and thank goodness we are finally out of that ridiculous ball! Her ears felt pinched. She reached up, realizing that she’d accidentally slept in the diamond earrings from the Crown Jewels collection. Yeah, because those definitely aren’t kept under lock and key with someone whose sole job is to make sure…

Beatrice is STILL AT THE STUPID BALL IS THE WHOLE BOOK GOING TO TAKE PLACE IN THIS BALL? There’s a DUKE OF THE SIOUX OH MY FUICKING GODF I JUST’;LK CANNOTA I THIOOGUHT IT WOULD BE BAD ENOUUGHT IF THEY NEVER MENTIONED NATIVE AMERICANS BUT THISLD I CANOSDT CANNOT I JUST THE FUCK THE FUCKING…

You had to hand it to the Washingtons, Daphne thought, from where she sat in the audience of the knighthood ceremony. They really knew how to do pomp and circumstance. Daphne then proceeds to describe almost nothing, and what is described is honestly kind of thin and dull. Like, imagine your most basic ass low-budget…

We finally get to the ball and we finally get a chapter from Samantha’s POV. Sam is headed into the ball late, bemoaning in her head the whole time about being ‘the spare,’ which I really have no sympathy for? You’re a wealthy teenager with unlimited access and money and no responsibilities. Okay, okay, if…

Okay, so, we got a new POV for this chapter from a character named Nina Gonzales. She’s a student at King’s College (I think wholly made up for this AU, since the narration gives the date it was established as 1828 and the previous King’s College aka Columbia University was 1754 and named for a…