USHER'S POV I really hope she is dead, that the messenger got there too late. Can you imagine what would happen if Hayden comes back and finds that lowlife thief here? She is not worth his attention! I feel like my anxiety is eating up my intestines. What will happen to my marriage now? I am certain that girl was long dead before her saviour got there, but obviously the King will be no longer excited to have his son marry me. Not when he knows I am not his true mate and will bring down the number of years Hayden is to rule this Kingdom. I will probably weaken him as well. I had plans to last a thousand years, now I will only live five hundred if I am lucky to marry Hayden. But isn't half a millennia a lot as well? Compare it to a normal person's lifetime which is about nine