Chapter 48

• Disconcerted and not knowing how to react, she can only watch as Vladimir leaves with her daughter and her captor's sister, she feels her broken heart crumble as if it were a sand castle that the sea destroys when it touches it.
• The lump in her throat prevents her from cursing him, screaming at him how much she hated him for ending their illusion, she thought they could overcome the problems together, but as she watched him leave she realized that he had already made a decision on his own, that the solution for both of them was to marry someone else.
• —Now it is. —Micael grabs her arms roughly, "You will be my...".