Eldwin grabbed my wrist and said, “The queen must have been mistaken. You are supposed to marry me, not Javien. Let’s head to the palace and tell her about it.”
I flung him off and said coldly, “She did not make a mistake. I told you that I wasn’t going to marry you.”
Eldwin stared at me incredulously. “Catalina…”
My mother shoved him away. She looked at me and said, “Quick, pay Javien a visit. The king ordered him to be whipped sixty times because he barged into the palace to save you last night.”
She explained that when the news about my arrest got out, she had no one to turn to for help. At that moment, she recalled what I told her a while ago: I had asked the queen to let me marry Javien.
Therefore, my mother quickly went to Javien and told him that I loved him, as well as the news about the queen’s order. She begged him to think of a way to save my life. After hearing that, Javien rushed out of the city to get my mentor, who was a great physician.
However, the palace gate was shut at the time. Javien could not afford to wait until morning, so he broke into the palace with my mentor in
order to treat the queen.
The king was enraged and wanted to behead him immediately. However, the queen regained consciousness after my mentor’s treatment and
spared Javien’s life.”
While Javien did not have to die, he had to face punishment for what he did and receive sixty lashes.
After hearing my mother’s story, I immediately turned and hurried to the Quinn family’s estate.
ེ་རྒྱུ་སྙན་ཆེན་འོང་བཅོ་དྷན་ཇ་ཕོ་ཇོའོ་ བརྡ་རྒྱུུ་ཇ་ཚོ་ཇཚོ རྗེ ཟླ རྗེ་
But Eldwin blocked my path with a hint of hurt in his eyes. “Didn’t you always like me since we were young, Catalina? Why are you marrying
Javien?”
I sneered and said, “People change, Eldwin. Even you. Back then, you also said that you liked me. But what happened after that? You fell in love
