"That's the first thing you ask me?” Prince Calix said, eyes narrowing on me. “You just found out you’re about to die, and that's the first thing you ask?"
"What else should I say? I know my fate. I’ve accepted it. What I need to know is why you kissed me when you are promised to someone else."
He stared at me like I’d grown two heads. "You're crazy. It will honestly be a relief to have you dead."
I sprang up from the floor, facing him.
"Of course,” I said. “You men are such cheating, heartbreaking monsters. You promise someone forever and then sleep with their cousin, putting a baby in them. You join forces with their backstabbing uncle to steal their throne from them. You gift them to a monster whose entire kingdom wants them dead.” My throat tightened, and my eyes burned. “Gods, he
