Anthony's POV
Days later, Anthony stood rigid, his hands clasped behind his back, once again staring out of the window overlooking the city of Proteus in the far distance, from the tiny island.
His jaw tightened as memories of Katherine at her father’s grave flooded his mind. The weight of her words still clung to him like a noose around his neck, "I thought we could do this...”
She had been right, of course. How could they even consider the idea? How could he even have had the audacity to think of his queen this way? She is royalty and he was of a lower class. Just an employed royal guard. He is Anthony, captain of the royal guard, bound to protect her and all other royals by law. The king- Oscar, the man he had practically raised after his father failed to do so himself, and who h
