"I wish to know what is troubling you, if I may." Rubbed his fingers around Elizebeth's warm hand, in an attempt to soothe her worry.
Elizebeth gulped down her dry saliva. Years of hatred and nightmare with another was not a simple relationship to forsake. It took her entire willpower to not collapse in the middle of people and grab their attention. Specifically, the king that was already in the same space as her now.
"I have a secret need to impose." She shut her eyes.
Duke Tita's tense up, she brought the topic so abruptly that it threw him off guard and his mind went blank in an instant. His question had no meaning. He understood the suspicious eyes of the princess. He allied with the foreign king and the said king attacked her kingdom and stole her mother for his own amusement.
They looked at each other in silence. One waiting for the story while another forming the sentence inside the head.
