“So, Lucius is your biological father.” I look up at Darian. “What will he do now?”
“Manage the palace like he did for the former king. He needs to feel useful. The man was wasting away in that cottage I gave him. After these few hours he’s had to be busy and useful, he looks and sounds like his old self.”
“I meant, what about your relationship with him?” I ask dryly.
Darian gathers me in his arms. “I don’t know. It’s not as if we got along well before. We’ll have to take it one day at a time.”
“And what about us?”
Darian meets my gaze. “I would like to court you properly. I love you, Alice. I never stopped loving you. I know you care about me, but I—”
“When Serena was attacking you,” I cut him off, my chest aching, “the way she was throwing you around, I thought my heart would burst
