My breathing faltered.
Cole’s eyes burned red as he fixed on me. I couldn’t tell if it was anger, pain, or something more complicated. Once, one word from him would have had me running away with him without a second thought, even if it meant wandering the world.
But now I was only a dethroned false princess with nothing left; my grandmother was gravely ill. I had no right to be willful.
“No.”
I steadied my voice and let the word fall.
His whole presence went cold.
“You really mean to marry Vetle?” he ground out.
“Yes.”
I met his eyes head-on.
He drew a deep breath, as if forcing down the break inside him. “Do you even know that he—”
“I know.”
I cut him off, cold.
In Ruby’s palace, that Omega attendant had already told me the hidden things. The filthy, ugly truth—I knew it bett
