And…some part of me, a part I’d never acknowledged before…it needed her to choose me. Of her own free will. Not because the fates had decided we would be best for each other, or because we’d been thrown together by those same fates. But because she looked at me and saw me as a man who was more than just the Bloodthirsty Prince. Because she saw a man who was worth tying herself to for the rest of her life.
