“I am glad they liked me,” Tarena remarked softly.
“They really adored you, Tarena. You were such a beautiful baby that Ivan always said that you were an angel come down from Heaven and he was especially blessed by having you.”
“Do tell me more,” she begged. “I have never been able to discover very much about my father.”
“That is just what I am about to do, Tarena, but it’s not that easy.”
Tarena stopped herself from asking him why.
After a moment or two he continued,
“You were only four years of age when what was a sublime dream of happiness between two delightful young people became a disaster.”
“Disaster? What happened, Uncle Richard?”
“I had learnt secretly and he begged me not to tell anyone, that Ivan was in fact not just Ivan Sazon, as he had told everyone, but His Royal Hig
