“The only female in the entire realm who’d be miserable as my wife is you. Isn’t it fortuitous that you and I will never happen?” I flinched. If he’d stabbed me with his House dagger it might have hurt less. Once upon a time, I’d thought he would be perfect for me. Because he’d made me believe in his brand of fairy tale, right before I discovered he was the villain the stories warned us about.
