The Forbidden Rejection

[RAFE ALDER MORLAND]

Already decided? I am stunned.

I marvel at the Prince. Indeed I do.

Uncertain whether it is his outright bravery to utter such words so confidently, or the utmost insanity he displays.

I stare at him as if he were two sides of a coin placed upright on a flat surface. Undecided and yet somehow stubbornly firm.

As if he might burst into laughter and tell me he was joking, someth