Capítulo 134: Chapter 87

"I remember what I said," he nods. "And I haven't changed my mind about it. I want you to be happy even if I'm not the one making you that way."

A silence settles around us as we both engulf each others' words. I wonder what is going to happen back at the palace after he leaves. He should try to find his own love and make her his queen because he and I both know that can't be me. Not if I want to keep my family from being killed. Perhaps a part of me also doesn't want to become queen either because the responsibility scares me. I don't want the weight from a whole world looking up to me on my shoulders. I would crumble under all that pressure.

"Evan told me you wanted to interrogate some of the Destroyers' spies that I have locked up back at the palace," Bennett cuts through the silence and I perk up at the sound of his voice.