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“What are you saying? You know you can’t divorce,” my father says, while Mother scoots closer to me, but I tell them I don’t care. I’m tired of all this. I watch my mate in pain every day because she has to share me with someone else, while Athena looks at me with a sad expectation of something that will never happen.
When I agreed to do all this, it was because I was told I was fixing things, but now things keep getting more broken. Now not just one heart is breaking every day, but two. So, I don’t care if a king can’t divorce; I’m not tying Athena down for nothing. When she returns, I’m having her checked, and if she can’t give me an heir, I’m setting her free so she can find herself someone who’s going to be worthy of her love and love her the way she
