The journey always seemed the longest when going to an unknown destination.
Now that he was back home the return journey did not seem as long as when he first traveled to the merfolk kingdom.
Perhaps it had to do with getting involved with Ari and getting caught up in her adventures, his heart squeezed him as memories of his loved one flashed through his mind.
Everyday he woke up, he just wanted to roll over and go right back to sleep.
Take nothing for granted. Like seriously.
Marino never in a million years thought Ari would have been taken away from him like that, driven out of her mind with rage, ostracized by the merfolk kingdom and beheaded by Prince Juval.
If anyone could have predicted that future for her, he would have said they were lying.
Hadn't she suffered enough, before she met him, she spent her whole life on the run, the only thing he knew that Ari made peace with was with her father Uriah.
