CHAPTER 84

  **ASHTON**

  Women are selfish.I have come to know that ever since Emma broke my heart.Yet today as I mounted Striker and thrust the stirrups forward to make him gallop fast out of the palace,I knew that Emma's selfishness was nothing compared to that of Gwendolyn.

  She couldn't have chosen a better time to do this than the period of our game.A time when we are expected to be at the arena cheering our people on to show our maximum support.And now I couldn't even be there,all because of her irrational behaviour.

  I didn't think she could carry out her threat of leaving after yesterday.In my head,those were mere words uttered in the hit of anger,in addition to the knowledge that she had nowhere to go.

  She told me herself.This place was her only hope.So where in hell did she run off to?