Mara's Pov

The room suddenly felt too quiet.

He walked up to me slowly and held my hand. I heard soft whispers from the crowd, and my heart kept beating as if it could fall out of my chest. He made me face him, and I wondered what he was about to do.

“Mara,” he began calmly.

“If I had planned every moment of my life, I still would not have been prepared for you.”

“I did not come into your world as someone looking for love. I came into it looking for truth. Answers. Clarity for things I thought were already decided in my mind.”

“But you… changed what...