“Is this where you ran off with my child?” The man she thought she’d never find had shown up. He was there to take her child. *** “Marry the man the king has chosen for you.” Her father’s words shook her life to the core. Isdante, the man who stood by her side in an arranged marriage. A war hero who led the empire to victory and was loved by all. did not love Thearis. “If I give you everything back, will you let me go?” “Let you go?” Isdante sneered at Thearith’s words. “Even if you die, die by my side.”