MIRA
I pace around the room with Dargen’s ring in my hands, thinking about everything and not finding a place for myself. It’s late at night but what he told me made a deep cut in my heart… Is this even possible? Surely it’s just a trick of his… There is no love lost between the cousins and he probably just wants to cut a wedge between us.
At last, I give up and just make a bubbly bath for myself. Soaking in it, I reflect on everything… It just can’t be the truth. Derrien… What we have is real. No one can lie like that. He said that I am his… so many times!
And yet he never said that I would become his wife. Not once. He said that he’d take me to his castle. But it’s not a proposal… And that time he said that I shouldn’t think of other men “while” I am his… While…
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