Belle knew Rohan's past was not all rainbows and sunshine, despite how the rumors said he was a prince loved by his parents, Queen Galina and King Zach, but she never expected everything Rav began to tell her, right from the very beginning of it all.
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75 years ago.
A beautiful woman with raven-smooth, long hair that fell down to her waist could be seen standing before a balcony, staring into the night sky.
Her dark red eyes glimmered with unshed tears as her plump lips moved in silent prayers to the bright stars above.
She had learned from her lady-in-waiting that those stars could grant a woman her greatest desires in life, if you wished upon them with all of your desires.
She did not believe in such things, of course, but Queen Galina was desperate and was willing to try the most ridiculous and most outrageous thing in order to fulfill her desperate wishes.
