The night before the engagement Heidi couldn't get the needed sleep and instead walked in her room, hoping it would tire her enough to put her to sleep. Her mind had been weighing with a lot of things. She knew she wouldn't be using the potion the Duke gave her not because she was scared but because she had fallen for the lord. The person her people warned about, the person she was not supposed to side with. But, here she was preparing herself for tomorrow, to have the courage to marry Warren who was kind to her. She felt that she was betraying them and didn't know what to do. A part of her wanted to run away, run away somewhere far and star over her life but was that even an option?
She twisted and turned in her bed but nothing seemed to work, not even counting the sheeps in her mind that jumped over the fence. Looking at the clock on the wall, she saw it was around ten past twelve. Moving the sheets away from her body, she sat up for a while before stepping out of her.
