“She won’t be that bad.” Tom muttered to himself as he strode through the marble walls of the palace. Being a royal meant his family was arranging an engagement for him to marry a girl of a respectable class. Naturally, Tom despised the idea.

As he neared his family and his future betrothed, his eyes fell on her, and his expression hardened immediately. "Oh, for fucks sake.” He groaned out loud, earning a few gasps from across the room.