Lucien's POV
Salem has proven to be a wonderful time and for the first time in my life, I actually have friends. I don't know but I like this life more than I liked being a prince. Many people think that it is a wonderful previlage but it is not, far from it actually. As a part of the royal family you don't actually own your life, I say this because everything is chosen and done for you. Everything. From having someone pick out your clothes for you and even someone tasting your food before you eat.
But that is not the worst of it, no the worst part of it is having your life planned out for you, where you can never choose who you want to be with, where marriages are about building alliance and not about love. A world where you don't have a choice but to do what you have been told, even i
