If he decided to stay away for longer and give Ruta more time to announce his marriage to Princess Marziale, he could visit Greece, which he had always loved and then, if he still had no desire to return home, he could move across the Mediterranean to Alexandria.
‘The world is my oyster,’ he thought to himself. ‘Why should I be compelled to go home until I am ready to do so?’
“You are feeling defiant,” Sacia said unexpectedly. “Why?”
“Are you reading my thoughts again or are you just instinctively conscious that is what I am feeling?”
“I think it is a mixture of both, Nico, but I do know what you are feeling. You are still rebelling at fate, as you were when we first met, or whatever is threatening you.”
“I was indeed being threatened when I ran away,” he admitted, “and the same was h
