I don’t think any girl in all of Illéa could have been smiling more than me.
I should have proposed that night in your room." "I should have let you.
That was my great ambition. Not to be Illea's princess. To be Aspen's.
The picture of me just after I’d found out Aspen was saving up to marry me. I looked radiant, hopeful, beautiful. I looked like I was in love. And some idiot thought that love was for Prince Maxon.
You ask for such simple things, I can't deny you.
He must love you very much,' Gavril said once I had my footing. I couldn't look at him. 'What makes you say that?' Gavril sighed. 'I've known Maxon since he was a child. He's never stood up to his father like that.