Chapter 2: Home to the disappointed sisters
Did he say wedding night? She blushed.
What was happening? she brooded.
How did she go from an illegitimate child and sister who was treated as a servant by her own family to talking to the Lord of Critic Arley about marriage?
"I would like to think about this" she replied quickly.
Whatever this was.
A marriage proposal?
A new home?
She had never actually thought about whom she could marry within the Empire but one thing she had wanted was for her husband to be a powerful man but she hadn’t thought of the kind of power that makes one the enemy of his Empire.
That is the kind of power that Lord Theodore possessed.
That would mean trouble.
"Don’t push it, Theo, Let her go home and you do this the right way" Conan waltzed back in with a drink in hand as he handed it to Lydia.