Alessandro's POV
I thought that seeing her would alleviate the pain a bit, but it didn't. It was quite the opposite: it became even more unbearable.
And to see her with him!
With Prince Emeric Pentaghast, whom our King sought to engage her with.
I should have taken one of the dinner knives and buried it in my chest; at least that would have put an end once and for all to the unbearable torment of seeing her with him, during dinner, smiling, talking, exchanging words that should have been for me.
Compared to that torment, what I was exposing to King Mordecai was a walk in a rose garden. And then, when I was about to leave that torture chamber that the dining room had become, she approached me to talk.
"There's something I'd like to talk to you about."
Why?
Why, Ivania, do you p
