CHAPTER 125

  Seeing Leonardo just reminds me of my shortcoming in protecting my little sister,” he concluded.

  Emerald hummed, moving her hands to cup his face, making their eyes stare into each other's depths. “Well, it shouldn't. Seeing Leonardo should remind you of the beauty of fate.”

  “Fate?” Jordan asked.

  “Mhmm,” Emerald nodded, “what if Carol and Leonardo had met and gotten married, but under different circumstances? Would you have tried to separate them?” Jordan shook his head in response. “Exactly. Just think of it as this; your father did that with the intention of gaining allies, but all he did was give their already entangled fates a little push.

  And as they say, something that would last for a very long time would take a long process. As gold would go through countless processes — a fiery furnace, the goldsmith's hammer — but the end result will always be something so beautiful and shiny.