#spent like hours trying to figure where it was explicitly said how the suitors discovered the ruse

[fluffypotatey]

something something it’s still, technically, Wednesday for me so have a wip snippet

Yet was his fury truly a direction at the handmaid? Could he say, without a doubt, that this anger and resentment he felt in his core was the fault of a single person? Or rather was it because he had to watch his own mother remake the shroud by force and have it ripped from her hands before she could dare to destroy it again. He had to watch them surround her and scrutinize her. He watched the minute trembling and breathing while she finished it before she quickly left with the last of the dignity she had left.  Stop making a fuss, little wolf, Antinous had taunted him, a smug grin painted his features as he leered down at the prince. We are merely keeping your mother accountable. The bastard mocked him more by tying the shroud round his throat, encouraging more jeers and taunting from the rest of them