NÌKOLAI’S POV It’s been more than 24 hours now and I’m nowhere close to finding out where Valentina is. Her grandfather keeps telling me to not worry, but all I can seem to do is worry. He says he’s heard from her and that she’s fine, but my gut is telling me differently. I love her and she’s all I can think about, so of course I’m gonna f*****g worry. I’m still replaying it in my head. There’s no way she got cold feet and disappeared. I saw the way she looked at me before I left her grandmothers house. She loved me too. But here I am, on the way to the stupid Catholic Church to see Valentina assume the throne. Why would she disappear and not even tell me? It doesn’t make any f*****g sense and it pisses me off. Isábella keeps reassuring me that she’ll come around, but I don’t

