The Unseen Husband
"I promise to be present. To be the father our children deserve, the partner you deserve, the man who chooses family over everything. I will never leave again. I will never be the unseen husband. I will be here, in light, for all our days."
Alessia was crying openly now, and Sebastian's own eyes were wet.
The Prince turned to her. "Lady Alessia, do you have words for your husband?"
Alessia took a shaky breath. "Six years ago, I married a stranger. I barely saw his face. I knew nothing about him except his name. He left at dawn, and I thought he'd abandoned me forever."
"But I was wrong. He didn't abandon me—we were both deceived. And the man I've come to know is nothing like the distant, unc