“I’ll lock it in my chambers until you manage to convince me that going ahead with our marriage is the best thing for the kingdom,” I say with a smirk. She shakes her head at me, clicking her tongue disapprovingly. “You've got it all wrong, Prince Soren—you're the one who's going to have to convince me of such a thing, because right now, I’d set you on fire just to watch the flames consume you.”
9/18/24 He just needs to come to terms with the fact that he needs her, not really the other way around. She could escape and return to her forest or leave altogether and go back to the welcoming Northern Lands. She should tell him that.