<span style="font-style: italic">"How dare you." </span><br/><br/>Motto’s lips parted with a shallow inhale.  She was angered indeed.  Apparently she had tea and….  as Genevieve spoke he struggled to understand with every hope to fix it immediately.  It clicked just as she touched his chest; the payment.  He’d forgotten entirely.  Gilthlore had in fact, paid her kingdom as she was to be his bride.  A dreadful feeling panged in Motto’s stomach as he realized he had lied directly to the Princess..while asking for her hand!  The act was so heinous and ugly he felt a rush of heat followed immediately by a cold sweat.<br/><br/>She was no longer facing him.  He had lied to her and hurt her and he was a fool.<br/><br/>He couldn’t bring himself to speak.  Shame and fear choked the young King as he stood there imagining her leaving in the morning.  She would leave.  He ruined the wedding and his kingdom would suffer confusion.  There was no room for errors such as these yet here he was; a foul idiot of the most villainous degree.<br/><br/>But … was he?<br/><br/>He hadn’t meant to.  Motto’s brows turned upward as his expression flickered with desperation.  He’d simply forgotten.  In his heart, Motto hadn’t agreed with the payment and under normal circumstances would have remembered to rectify the exchange with a honorary purchase of fine timber.  But he had forgotten.  A dreadful mistake throwing his bride into betrayal and sorrow; forever tainting her trust and respect for him.  Even if he were to apologize, Motto knew she would always feel hurt.  Never before had he felt so unfit to be King.  It was a painful thought and his own fists balled up.<br/><br/>So Gilthlore was doomed with a fool King, was it?<br/><br/><span style="color: #40BF00">“So be it..”</span>He growled this mostly to himself before taking a step forward and puffing up his chest.  He spoke to Genevieve’s back with a raised voice.<span style="color: #40BF00">“Barbaric is a fitting title, My Lady.” </span><br/><br/><a class="postlink" href="https://i.imgur.com/Nja0IwT.jpg">[ img ]</a><br/><br/>He removed his crown and threw it at the ground in fury.