Chapter 20. Sacrifice

Kailani’s POV

My breath grew rigid in my throat, realising who stood in the dining room with the Lanes.

“You’re not Sir Valerio.” I immediately blurted out in an accusing voice, and this made the rest turn to me with a confused gaze.

I had never met Sir Valerio in person, but I was certain he would be much older, greyer, and less annoying.

“He’s not,” Oliver’s mother named Scarlett spoke up, coming into his defence, “My husband is on a royal assignment to the east and couldn’t make it here today despite wanting to. The prince stepped in for him and it was a noble thing to do.”

How noble of him.

My eyes moved back from Scarlett to Edward, who has since not taken his eyes from me. Of all the people I could have run into, it had to be him.

I haven’t seen him since the heated last dispute we had and honestly; I wasn’t looking forward to it. I never wanted to see him again, but fate had its sick way of bringing the worse dreams to pass.