SEAN
Caroline froze at my side, like a deer caught in the headlights. She wouldn’t move, wouldn’t breathe, wouldn’t peel her eyes off her father, who’d just appeared in the middle of the town’s square.
She was terrified, and I was, too. That smile on the king’s lips would have terrified anyone, because it bore a promise – now you’re mine.
That was the moment when I realized I was right, that all my feelings that something was extremely off with that man had an actual foundation. He was not the amicable, friendly, easy-going guy he’d acted like until now; no, the man I had in front of me was an extremely calculative and cold one. A normal man, a normal father, would have been happy, delighted that his daughter had found her mate; but I could tell that his own was not happiness.
It wa
