Between Goodbye and Forever: A Farewell of Love

Emilia York came from Navara to the Zorvian court as a small child and was raised among the princes on purpose. The emperor had made it a rule: whichever of his sons married her would have Navara's backing and the throne with it. Emilia followed Lucius Tate everywhere from childhood, and the whole capital assumed the match was settled. Lucius announced to her face that he intended to marry his cousin Winona Langston, and Emilia became the joke of the city. On the day of the weddings, Lucius learns who Emilia is actually marrying: his relative Conrad Tate. He watches her go through the ceremony and understands that he has spent his life loving the wrong person, and he begins trying to get her back from a position where nothing he offers is worth anything to her.