Lady Florentine stood up as sitting was no longer serving her. "He brought it on himself. If Raff had married my daughter early or treated her...."
"Stop." Sigrid raised her hand because she did not want to hear it. "This man was betrothed to your daughter but never looked her way. He never called on her or courted her. He flirted with other women and engaged in love affairs with mistresses that he kept in every city in this empire.
This should have been the very first sign that you needed to terminate the betrothal. Even before he married the queen, he was humiliating her. We can both be honest, the queen is a beautiful woman. She developed an ugly heart over the years but she remains a beauty. She could have had her pick of men.
The king only came to marry your daughter when he wanted your help in helping him sit permanently on the throne. You all knew what he was after.
