Gortash walked into his chambers, a casual pace, that bastard was calm. He stalked towards the corner you were chained up in. He moved his hand gently down your cheek before roughly grabbing your chin and forcing your head up to look at him. "It's a shame really, things would have been so much easier for you if you had come to me willingly, but no you had to fight me. And you continue to do so. A real shame, but if this is how things must be to protect you, so be it." He let his hand drop resulting in your head falling to look to the ground. He walked to his desk that was placed on the opposite side of the room. Before he sat he turned to look at you, "If you behave today, and you talk to me, I might give you something to eat today." Your head perked up slightly at that, food, you were starving, he had been withholding food from you for what felt like weeks and only gave you water when you were about to or already passed out from dehydration. He smiled, a cruel one, seeing your reaction to his words. "But first I have some paperwork to finish, stay quiet and we can talk when I'm done." It was hard to believe this was who your childhood best friend had become. He had been missing for years and reappeared out of nowhere rising to high society at blinding speeds. Becoming archduke of Baldur's gate and defeating the absolute cult, in the months it took for him to rise you two had been courting on and off, eventually he became to busy and you thought he had left you behind. After the defeat of the absolute cult, he tracked you down and asked you to become his archduchess, and you had foolishly refused.