Chapter FourIt was impossible to sleep and after a while Zita drew back the curtains from her bedroom window and looked up at the stars, wondering what Fate and the future held for her.
She knew that because of her position in life, however much she fought against it, sooner or later she would have to accept a marriage which was advantageous to her country or politically expedient in one way or another.
Ever since she was a child she had had it drummed into her that being Royal had great responsibilities.
She knew now that what her mother had really been saying was that, as a Royal Princess, her only service was to make a marriage that would be an advantage to Aldross.
Therefore, when she had imagined love and dreamt about it, Zita had seen herself not as a Princess but as an ordinary
