The grandest venue filled with the most prominent families of power. You were your family’s diamond, their genius prodigy. You were loved by great leaders as the child they envied to have. Caius Vaegon was cut from the same cloth; wealthy name, powerful respect, and the brilliance of the sharpest sword. Yet for someone of the same likeness, he had everything you didn’t. People actually liked him.

“Sitting alone again princess?” Caius smirked as he took a seat next to you.