CAROLINE
Despite everything, I'd always had something positive in my s**t-strewn life. A lighthouse, a place to go to feel a little less bad.
That lighthouse had always been the Fae realm, and Carenna, and my Fae family, but now ... now I had nothing.
I understood why my grandfather had accepted Malcolm's imposition on my marriage. I understood that reason of state came first, even before the affection he held for me, and yet ... when I'd seen him, earlier, and he'd called my name, it had taken all my strength to stop me from incinerating him there on the spot. He could have just told me Malcolm was planning that marriage. Ask me if that was really what I wanted. But he hadn't - and that was what hurt me the most.
The fact that Sean was holding my hand had helped a lot. I guess it w
