Then he asked, his tone a touch softer, “Have I not yet earned your trust?” “It is not that I do not trust you, Sorin,” Scarlett said after a beat of silence. “It is that I have done some atrocious things, so much worse than allowing a prince to fall in love with me. And I fear… I fear how you will look at me when you hear that story.” “I have lived for centuries, Scarlett. I assure you, I have done things far more horrid in my time,” he answered darkly.
