"Of course not. The kingdom of Regan ruled by these unparalleled depraved people is too powerful for him to ever interfere. There, my mother and younger brother await me. They don't know what happened to us. They don't know that I will never be innocent and happy again, and that father will never come home."
She smiled wistfully.
"I miss them so much. And no doubt they would have loved you too."
"I don't doubt it."
This time it was Vradiome who forced Oriane to look at him, and it was then that he noticed her lips bitten to the point of blood.
"And know that in payment of my debt to you. Great as you have claimed, I will offer you whom I have come to love, this day that you desire more than anything."
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