It might have been better to be impaled by a sword, and Gine had already tried that. While it temporarily had the Queen of Hearts fussing and tending towards him, at the end of the day, this occurred.
He understood it.
"It's because I have nothing to offer," he said. More to himself than to her.
But the Queen of Hearts, Rosalyn, still seized his hand with hers and said. "Have you not paid attention to what I just said? You're doing too much and I cannot see what you mean by 'having nothing to offer' to me. That's ridiculous, Gine. You've given me too much."
Julius Ginellevé could only smile in resignation, because his Queen had already managed to make it clear, but it seemed those words did not fully register in her mind. Julius had already spent most of his time focused on her alone, that his own personal life was extinguished to mere embers.
