"Can I ask you something?" Niti asked calmly from close to Rudy's ears.
Rudy's ear twitched after the cold sensation on them, but he managed to stay calm and nodded without saying a word.
"Do you… do you love princess Jane?" she asked.
"Of course, I do. What type of question is that?" he replied instantly.
"My apologies. That's not what I wanted to ask. I wanted to know 'if' you loved princess Jane before you entered this world," Niti rephrased herself.
"Oh. No… actually. I will be honest and say I hated Jane before. But not the kind of hate you are thinking, oh. I was… angry at her. But everything changed after I found out the truth," he replied awkwardly.
"So, what made you fall for her?"
"Her beauty, of course. And her haughty personality. I wanted to dominate her. I wanted to make her meek. I wanted to… make her mine. It was lust. But falling in love with her was inevitable. And she turned out to be more meek and interesting than I thought."
"...."
