Chapter 33 - The royal blue dress and the wedding.

Lorenzo

I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT I WANTED, which was a strange new feeling for me. I couldn’t see myself crowning a slave as the queen, but I also couldn’t imagine living my life without her anymore. In a very short time, Ariana had shown me that my first impression of her was completely wrong.

She definitely wasn’t weak, that much was clear. She was smart, and I bet if she was in the right circumstances, she would be funny. She was fair even when the world around her wasn’t. She was kind even when she really didn’t have to be. If I was honest with myself, I would have to admit that she was the woman I had been looking for all this time, but I wasn’t honest with myself.

I might be in the process of trying to free the slaves, but that didn’t change anything. Ariana would always be remembered as the slave girl that was saved by my mother and that girl could never be our queen. I wondered how she would feel about being my mistress but pushed that idea out of my mind as soon as it popped up.

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