"How much have you known the princess to compete with me anyway? I have known Garrison for eight long years to fall in love with him. Do you know what her smile looks like or what irritates her?" if he wanted to wound her, she would not give him the satisfaction, "just because I have made mistakes, you will make one. Is it?"
"No!" he replied with a sigh, hesitating for a second before ordering a glass of beer for her too. "I am telling you that it is human to make mistakes. You have made some, I will make some but it would not put us in more danger than we already are!"
",..." slowly the noise around her started to fade as she stared at her brother who was not even looking at her. Did he think that her family will not be accused of treason. Treason! Whole family with friends and extended family, relatives and maids.. All get killed at once. She had faced it once. She was not going to walk gallows in this life.