Alessandro's POV
Valery continued the narrative.
During their time of happiness, the dryad had not revealed her agreement with the witch to Prince Lycan. She led him to believe that she had, through a faerie spell, managed to confine the oak in the phylactery. So, when the witch appeared before the couple, the prince's surprise was greater, along with his frustration upon learning the lie that his love had told him.
The price the witch demanded was, as often happens in these stories, the delivery of the dryad's first daughter with the prince, a birth that had occurred three years ago. It was the couple's third child after two boys. Of course, the marriage was not willing to hand over their daughter, especially to a witch, knowing that by doing so, they would be condemning their little o
