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Lerin
Icould feel the change in how she treated me.
It was rotten, terrible, and made me want to crowd her into a small room and remind her why we worked so well. Ever since I shot down her idea of leaving Crystal Glass, she seemed to have withdrawn into herself.
I couldn’t help my reaction!
She’d been in my home, my kingdom, for a whole five minutes before deciding it wasn’t for her. What did that mean for us? Was I not for her either?
The drive back to Springfield a couple of days later was deathly quiet.
I almost opted to send her home alone and stay in the kingdom to blow off steam. These last few days had been a whirlwind of meeting dignitaries and attending official gatherings. But through it all, we’d hardly kissed—hardly touched. She seemed genuinely hurt.
Why should I have to apologize, though?
As the car approached Springfield, I felt like I could breathe again. The stress of the visit was gone, and I hoped that meant she was ready to move past the weird fight. “Let’s order in food,” I suggested.
I feared she’d be mad and tell me to leave, but instead, she placed a hand on mine.
“Don’t you feel better now that you’re out of there?”
The question caught me off guard.
I didn’t think she would bring it up again.
“It doesn’t matter if I feel better away from it. Crystal Glass is my home,” I replied quietly.
“A home shouldn’t fill you with so much stress that you’re not able to relax. No amount of money or comfort is worth that,” she said earnestly.
The limo pulled up outside the apartment and we made our way inside. All the while, I mulled over her words.
“A home shouldn’t fill you with so much stress that you’re not able to relax. No amount of money or comfort is worth that,” she said earnestly.
“That stress is part of my duty…to earn the crown.”
“Then don’t.”
“What?”
“Don’t try to be king. You said you didn’t want it.”
It finally hit home what she’d been telling me.
I’d been so concerned that I’d end up with a fated mate that just wanted money and power that I didn’t notice she was the perfect opposite of that. She was willing to forgo the castle and kingdom just to ensure that I was happy.
She was there for me, not the crown.
Sitting down in her kitchen, I really let myself think about it.
“Where would we even go?” I blurted out. “How could we survive?”
“Why can’t we stay in Springfield or Ember Abyss?”
I loved that she knew we’d be in this together and was willing to move with me. She affected me in ways I never expected to feel.
“They’ll find us. I’d be a traitor to the kingdom, and you’d be guilty by association.”
