Emily failed to understand why someone would hate her so much as to want to poison her. She had never even met the man before. What could his motives possibly be?
The thought troubled her, and saddened her in equal measures, so much that Liam felt compelled to say in a joking manner, “The court is poisonous, literally.”
“You don’t say?” She giggled humorlessly, feeling on the verge of a a breakdown now that she was in her and Theo’s bedchamber. “What did I do to earn such a treatment?”
“You did nothing, dear,” he told her softly, “but your very existence is a nuisance.”
Her eyes narrowed despite her tears as she no longer felt the need to keep up pretenses, and he went on, “A royal mating with a human is unheard of at the court.”
“Well, surprise, I won’t be human for long now that
