(Ashley’s POV) . I hated the country Xevia. It was just too cold for me. Extremely cold during the winter. Not wanting my son to come with me where the war was said to still be going on, I had left him behind with Ivan’s family. Of course, Teddy was happy to see Crystal again. The look of Ivan seeing his daughter hugging my son was priceless. Ivan was very protective of his daughter. Nikolai once told me that. Cindy was left behind too to protect my son. She knew well on what to do if things went wrong. After confessing everything to Cindy on who I really was, it took her awhile to register that in her head, that she was working with a Princess all these years. Cindy had always dreamt to be the designer for Royal family. It was her dream and I may be the one to fulfill that dream of h