Five years. Those were the years Arianna spent loving Ethan in a marriage that had been nothing but a lie.
She could never forgive him for the pain he had caused her.
The fact that Selena, the woman she had trusted as her closest friend, ended up becoming his wife was a wound that had destroyed her in her previous life. The betrayal had left scars so deep that even death had not erased them.
But not anymore.
She would never allow anyone to hurt her that way again.
"Have we not arrived yet?" Arianna asked, turning her gaze toward Maria, who sat across from her inside the carriage.
"No, my lady. But we should arrive soon," Maria replied.
Arianna leaned back against her seat. She had not expected the journey to be this long. The Northern Kingdom seemed cut off from the rest of the world. Now she understood why Ethan had spent most of his time living in the West.
"Did you see the way Prince Ethan ran after you when you were leaving?" Maria asked excitedly.
