8. The Second Condition

'I need three kisses every day. That's the only way you can have me as your husband'

I close my eyes tightly to erase the image of Sain Czar Ildefonso inside my head. What I want to do right now is to rest, and appease my mind about the conversation I had with him. I don't want to remember his face. The twitching of his lips is bothering me. His intense stare that piercing deeper into my soul, and I wanted to avoid it. But unfortunately, I'm drowned with those beautiful deep dark grey eyes that he has.

I calmly breathe and open my eyes.

If I were to decide, I will never marry him. I don't want Ildefonso's name to stain mine. I know there is another way to get a hold of them, but of course, I cannot defy my father. I need to marry him because that's what he told me. The only thing I can do to repay everything they've done for me is to follow everything that they told me. I almost run out of life, but Costello added a lifeline to my almost end season. Also, this mission is the beginnin