Karic stared at Bella as she entered the carriage. He couldn’t believe she was going to the grand court. If she was to leave he thought, she would go home. And not somewhere he couldn’t reach her even if he wanted to.
He was King Stefan’s bastard son. He didn’t belong in the grand court. Even when his father went there he never took him as part of his soldiers. He was not allowed somewhere so prestigious.
She was going far away from him.
He stared at her no able to look away. All kinds of thoughts filtered into his mind as he tried to imagine what she was thinking, leaving him like this.
She’s mine, he thought as a possessive feeling he didn’t understand gripped him. There was no way she was going to run away from him.
He will find a way, he promised himself as he walked back
