The past that haunted her in sleep was all coming back now that Lemiel Von Amstel was standing before her.
Only, she was no longer the eighteen-year-old naive princess who knew nothing about the world. She had managed to live as an ordinary person, raised a son, and survived in the cruel world of the less fortunate. She wouldn't be used by this man twice, she vowed to herself.
He wanted to take her son by saying that he would give him a better life and provide the security she couldn't give, but how could she give her son to someone she didn't deem worthy of her trust?
"You and your family have used me once. I may be young and a little naive before, but I understood why you married me. Your father used our marriage to blackmail my family, and I am sure you were aware of that, weren't you, milord?"
