After climbing onto the Regent's bed, the monk went mad

At a temple outside the capital, I spent five years as Hayden Thorne's secret lover, waiting for the day he would renounce his vows and marry me.

But at the feast celebrating his return to secular life, another woman appeared.

People whispered that she was Princess Coralia, the woman who had once rejected Hayden's proposal to be married off for a political alliance.

Hayden kissed me in front of everyone. "What are you," he sneered at her, "that you dare to show your face in front of my Elara?