Chapter 66
Iris’ POV
It was another tense dinner again tonight. It has been five days since Andreas gave me the warning, and Aithan is still not speaking to me. My parents were mad at me too. Aithan had casually mentioned going with Andreas to a jewelry store with a woman. He knew it wasn’t Mariela, but he didn’t know the woman’s name. I grew excited thinking that maybe Andreas was now willing to fight against the marriage contract.
I was hoping that he was starting to think about taking a bride that he chose, not the one that was being forced upon him. That contract had been drawn up back when he was born. It was supposed to be Peter who became King and had to accept her, not Andreas. So I was free to allow my crush on Andreas to grow. I knew from the time I turned ten years old, that
