“What?!” I yelled, not understanding a thing of what he was talking about.
How can one go from loving one of the princes to becoming an assassin overnight?
“I thought so, too. It turned out she was sent by her estranged uncle to assassinate the king. But she happened to be entangled with me before she met Lux, whom she fell in love with. When he rejected her, she struck that night.”
“God,” I placed a hand on my chest. “That's awful. Was she killed?”
I was more than eager to hear the end of the tale.
He stared at me before he shook his head, “she wasn't caught. But we heard a week later that she had been killed. It was a week before Postuna, Fruda's son, attempted to assassinate the king.”
He turned and returned to his couch. "All these happened a few moons after my mother's death,
