Aurelia: It’s been eight weeks since Mallon left Northlaye and Edric’s patience has started to wear thin. Within the last few days, he’s asked to see me several times, only so he can scold and belittle me. “There’s been no word! No word!!” he would scream in my face “I knew he was pretending to want you as a bride, I’ll be he couldn’t wait to get as far from you as possible” It was only yesterday morning he had blamed me again and now I was starting to believe it myself, what if it was all a ruse? A pretence so he could get away from here without causing a potential war! He would call King Aldrich a weak p***y, not strong enough to rule a kingdom and the way things were going, I could sense that maybe King Aldrich’s kingdom would soon not be safe from my father’s wrath… my father’s prid

