It was as if time had grinded to a halt as Kyra watched the scene unfolding in front of her. Right there were Fara and Nicolas, in love with each other; and keeping it a secret from everyone too.
"Nicolas, stop," Fara said all of a sudden, disentangling herself from the embrace. "Aren’t you afraid that someone might see us?"
"And so what?" he returned, looking every bit as carefree as the statement he had just uttered. "If anybody wants to see us, let them us see. In fact, that’s probably the perfect escape I need to get out of that sham of an arrangement I’ve been put in with my betrothed."
"No Nicolas, that can't happen," she replied, her eyes pleading for understanding. "Getting out of the kind of arrangement that you have will result in great catastrophes, and I'm not just talking a
