<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0080FF"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">House of D'Aries</span><br/><span style="font-size: 130%; line-height: 116%;">Castle Asture</span></span><br/><br/><a class="postlink" href="http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o793/Galvin_Fugazi/4d346bf9-c817-405c-b853-1d680fc1dba7_zps5271719f.jpg">[ img ]</a><br/><br/><span style="color: #0080FF"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">Lord Alexander D'Aries</span></span></div><br/><br/>Amena seemed to pause at Gregorio's words, obviously uncomfortable that her father's abuse towards her had been alluded to. She pulled away from Danielle, though she kept the girl close to her side. Her sharp eyes narrowed at Gregorio and Alexander could swear that he could hear the gears in her head clicking away as she analyzed his words. She was suspicious of something and Alexander wanted to know what. He was beginning to suspect that Gregorio was trying to plot something.<br/><br/>Perhaps Alexander was misunderstanding, but it almost sounded as if Gregorio was insisting that Danielle wouldn't mind marrying Alexander, now that her mind was back. Alexander, though, wasn't sure how to feel about that. Not even a few hours before he would have been quite pleased with that information, but after running into Marina and seeing the stark contrast between how Lady Danielle had treated him and how Lady Marina had treated him--well, he wasn't one to seek out abuse.<br/><br/><span style="color: #0080FF"><span style="font-weight: bold">"All this talk of marriage and we aren't even speaking about the marriage that caused all these issues in the first place,"</span></span>Alexander said, inwardly praying that Amena and Yakari would forgive him for trying to throw the conversation into another direction. Amena took a sharp breath and seemed like she was going to say something, only to clench her jaw and look away.