"Miss Skyla tell the court why you chose to marry such a man who had already revealed he wouldn't love you?" Sylvia questioned next. Skyla could sense all eyes on her, burning her for an answer. She took a few deep breaths, steadying herself as Zyair had taught her and answered.
"I did that because my father chose him for me. He had terminal cancer and didn't have many days to live. I couldn't burden him on his last days by telling him the man he chose wouldn't love me. I thought I could melt his cold heart with my love but I was wrong. All he offered me was pain and suffering."
Skyla concluded with a slight shake of her head and sniffled. Doran watched her with a blank face. The word love had no meaning in his dark life.
Lawrence and Caleb were too shaken to hear the type of life Skyla had been living. That bright smile on her face and her calm attitude never revealed how much she had been suffering inside.
