Sixty-nine:
Princess Sirena
I didn’t know how long it was that I had been locked up. Every few hours, Xavier would come and bring me food. I didn’t eat a single thing. If they were going to make me marry Antero, I was going to let myself starve. I had already been forced into one arranged marriage. I wasn’t going to let myself get forced into another.
“Come on,” said Xavier when he brought my dinner once, “you’ve got to eat something, Sirena. This is ridiculous. Even if you don’t want the marriage, I know that you and Antero have a connection. Is it really worth letting yourself die over? This is for a good cause. You are going to help bring about the destruction of Aurum. That is what you wanted in the beginning. You were planning on killing Zale anyway. You should be happy. Antero
