I was still enjoying my days with Christian when Xavier walked into my palace. I had always known that he wasn't up to anything like expressing his feelings towards me again. He walked in with a sad look on his face. "Sofia is missing," he said to me. That news made me so tired that I stood up and asked him how it happened and if he had sent guards to search for her. He then told me that she had disappeared with the child.

"This is really unbelievable. How could that happen?" I asked, feeling Xavier's pain. There was nothing I could do at that moment other than to...