Synopsis
The engagement ceremony ended before it began — the bride killed herself, right there, without any warning. Was someone playing games with him? A political marriage between two empires, arranged specifically to stop a prophecy, collapsed the moment his fiancée made that choice. And once something like that happens, there's no undoing it. He needed something. A long time ago, the goddess Nike had given a blessed jewel to the royal family of Dextin — a blue diamond tied to that old legend. Maybe that would be enough to settle things. It wasn't. So he decided he'd just take the…
