For the sake of a promise, she waited for years, only for the man she cherished most to slaughter her entire clan. She watched as his cavalry trampled her homeland.
Their most passionate lovemaking became an act of humiliation. He made her empress, then ordered her eyes gouged out and her face disfigured, before kicking her swollen belly!
He asked, “Does it hurt?” His voice was gentle, as if they had only just met.
She smiled, turned, and leapt from the cliff, never to hear the desperate howls behind her again.
She returns, cold and loveless, vows to remain a widow, and claims the throne!
But one lonely evening at dusk, she spots a ragged man on a street corner and learns that the truth behind it all was...
