Sixty-six:
Princess Sirena
“No!” I shouted.
Althaia locked eyes with me. “No?” she laughed. “You really think that you’ve got say in this?”
“I should!” I said, “I’m the one who will be giving her whole life away if she does this. My whole life, everyone has been trying to barter me off to someone. Don’t I get a say in any of this?”
Althaia rolled her eyes. “Don’t you understand, Princess? You don’t have a say at all here.”
My eyes narrowed. “If you want any of your plans to work, you are going to need my cooperation. I suggest you give me a say. Because I will slit my wrists before I am forced into another marriage that I have no say in.”
“Do you have a better idea on how to lure your Imperator here?”
“Why not simply let me get a message to him?” I asked. “That would be enou
