[b]Ella gave up her search for Marken after about an hour and retired to the library, supposing she should find somewhere quiet for the moment. She was able to find a private little nook and relaxed with a book in the large room, trying her best to keep her mind off of killing Marken. It was getting hard for her to keep her resolve, but she couldn't back down now.

It didn't help that the silly woman had picked up one of the most infamous romances of all time, [i]Romeo and Juliet.[/i] She wanted nothing more than to find the fool that believed that a fourteen-year-old girl and a sixteen-year-old boy were really in love, like they even knew what love could be. In Ella's opinion, they were just children infatuated with the forbidden, and their parents' terrible behavior only encouraged them to act out worse.

By the time supper rolled around, Ella had shut out the possibility of her having a "happily ever after" with her fiancé. As much as she wanted to stay in Rhal and be Marken's true bride, things just didn't seem like they would fall into place. Begrudgingly, she would have to throw away their happiness to please her king and return to his service. [/b]