Lena didn't say anything else as she gave Samuel a chance to process what she had just told him. It was a rather heavy thing to tell someone about. Somehow she wasn't all that surprised that talking about it didn't make her feel much better. She wasn't sure that the memories that haunted her would ever go away no matter how many years passed.
"Is that why you reacted so strongly when you found out what Jovani did to me, because we're also family but not that familiar with each other?" Samuel asked finally breaking the silence after a few minutes.
"Yes." The princess replied, not sure what else to say. It was the only reason why she had reacted so strongly to Jovani. She didn't want the same thing to happen again.
"I should apologize more than I thought. Truth is, I've been talking to him a while before all this happened and before I actually knew who he really was." The look on her face told him that she wasn't all that surprised to hear it from him.
