Chapter 100

He then sighed in surrender and said, “Well then, I guess my parents’ marriage was more perfect than I thought. Both were after power and influence.”

Lucianne then began, “She may have really loved him in the end, Xandar.” He looked at her in confusion. Didn’t she just say his late mother accepted a royal proposal in pursuit of influence and power? What did she now mean that the late Queen really loved the late King in the end?

Lucianne proceeded to explain, “It’s not the most ideal form of love for most of us but some who…choose their own mate over one given by our Goddess do eventually learn to be okay with the person that they are with. It could be driven by a sense of duty, or in your mother’s case, power and status. It would start out…as a bit of a challenge but eventually, one will find little things to love about the other person. And with a child, they would have another thing to love and live for. The luckiest ones even fall in love as the years go by. It just t