In his embrace.

BETROTHED TO THE CROWN PRINCE.

CHAPTER 16.

PRINCE’S ACE’S POV.

It's been a week since my father died and I haven't been able to get over the loss of him, the elders had called for a meeting that would declare the date of my final swear-in and coronation but I have been postponing it because I was still not over the shock that my father died right here in my arms, the thought and the image of that day kept coming on and playing in my head, and I still can't help but feel like I was the cause of the emperor's death, perhaps, just perhaps, if I had not gone to see him and pour out to him a lot more troubles than he was already Into, then maybe he wouldn't have drifted away from our fingers this easily,

I'd been seating in front of this mirror for like an hour now, I wasn't clearly staring at myself, I was just there because it was the only place that permitted me to think exactly the way I want to.

The elders must be waiting patiently for me. Maybe today I will have to face the real r