Leo's POV
I felt a hollow inside my heart as my eyes met with Diane who was being dragged into the hall, blindfolded and in chains like a newly acquired slave.
Her gown hung in tatters, smeared with blood stain, and her fragile frame stood trembling in the center of the room. Her head sagged low, tears dripping silently to the marble floor.
Seated on the lower throne beside my father, I felt the weight of her suffering like it was my own. A heavy pain pressed against my heart, as though I was somehow bound to her torment.
I wished I could do something to save her. To pull her out of this mess and make her mine. I badly wanted to reach out to her at that moment and mark her as my queen, but I knew better.
As much as my father badly wanted me to get a wife and fall in love again, they w
