Chapter 21`What did you mean by offering Lucenra to me as though she were a horse for sale?' Pettic's eyes blazed as he looked at his friend the next day.
`Calm down, Pettic,' Torren said. `Luce said exactly the same. I know you love each other. I've seen the way you look at her and she at you when you think the other isn't looking. Go talk to her. Tell her you love her.'
Pettic stormed off, but decided he would do as Torren said and go and talk with Lucenra. There was nothing in the world he would like better than to marry her, but he would not do so without being sure she wanted it too.
He arrived at her apartment and knocked on the door. A lady-in-waiting opened it and invited him in. He waited in the audience chamber until the princess arrived and invited him into her private sittin
