Xerxes’s pov

Katarina was unusually quiet in my arms and I was confident that she was entertaining thoughts of relationships based on lies I fed her. Her overactive mind might be going over all the things that happened in past, and the reasons why our compatibility was wrong and couldn’t work.

I wished I could assure her, tell her what I was planning and that she just needed to be patient, but I didn’t want to scare her more. She was pregnant and stress was not good for her. Katarina might not know, but the doctor who came to visit last week stated that there were high chances of Aconite...