Chapter 49. What Do You Want From Me

Nina POV

I quickly rushed back to the room where was staying with Ryder, my heart drumming heavily in pain.

I have never felt this vulnerable and confused. I didn’t want to cry, but the moment I stepped inside the room, all the tears I had been holding fell freely down my cheeks.

I locked the door and leaned my back against it, sobbing hard. How can she tell me to go back to him after explaining everything to her? It was in the sacred scroll, it was in the laws... a bond was to be cherished, and whoever breaks it for no good reason should face strong consequences.

It was there!

Yet, she acted as if I was wrong.

Like I didn’t know what I was saying.

I thought she was a mother, a woman like me! But she was so spiteful.

So inhumane with no conscience.

I screamed and slid down the door, my body shaking as I sobbed hard.

Who could I call to help? My mind drifts to the king... that one who gives me a look as if I disgust h