“Arthur, I have a husband,” I [Morgause] said, staring down at my feet. 
Arthur sat up beside me. “I will kill him, and I will marry you.”
It was all so simple to him. I shook my head, turning to him beside me. I looked at him sadly. His eyes were bright with the fire of youthful certainty, but he did not know what it was really like in the world of men.

“Morgawse: Queen of the North” by Lavinia Collins

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“I should have never left Arthur.” She regretted her words as soon as they were out of her mouth. Gwen may have thought them a million times, but she’d never said them.
He stopped eating and turned to look at her for a long moment. “No.” Lance seemed to consider her for a moment and seeming to find her lacking, added, “You shouldn’t have.”
His words cut deeper than any knife. […] And she wondered for the first time if all of those misogynistic scholars were right -if she’d broken him. If the fall of Camelot really was her fault?

“The desperate housewives of Avalon” by Saranna DeWylde

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I already knew that to question him was useless. (Medraut never asked or answered questions.) His friendliness was a sham. Slim, white-skinned, agile, he was neat-eyed thief loving Mercury using mischievous charm as a weapon. To love Medraut, to be loved by him might be deadly though, with unwonted imprudence, I knew I would keep by him.

Lancelot meeting Mordred.

from “Lancelot” (Peter Vansittart)

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