Chapitre 32: Chapter 32

Kallaar handed her a packet of papers—a betrothal contract.

She flipped to the last page and saw her mother's signature and the Rilien royal seal alongside that of Kallaar's mother and Morentia's seal. Flipping back to the beginning, she skimmed through the contract. As he'd said, since the age of five, he had been betrothed to her, though at the time she would have been only weeks old. "You're five years older than me?" He looked younger, even acted younger in some ways.

"No one ever believes me when I state my age," he said, unabashed and even delighted. "Yes, I am twenty-seven as of three months ago." He waggled his brows. "Ahmla is thirty-two."

Shanna groaned. "I had not realized I was such a child, comparatively speaking."

Ahmla drained his wine and poured them all more. "A child? Hardly. You were far too talented on that altar to be a child."