Flashback continued…

Alicia knew he despised the wedding, and she hoped he'd be the one to break their marriage first.

If he declares they will not consummate their marriage before the true sexual intercourse between the two takes place, there will be a commotion, but... she will be able to avoid a marriage she and Ivan did not want.

Of course, she'd be stigmatized as the woman who divorced on the day of her wedding. She'd never marry again, and who'd marry a bride who had been abandoned by the King on the first night?

Perhaps she will never be accepted back into society.

But that was sufficient.

It was...