[NOUR]
"... isn't that the truth? We all saw how torn up Grant was. That wasn't a performance. That was the first of the endless, eternal pain I intend on causing him till he goes crazy," Zaire said confidently, his gentle eyes holding Nour's.
It was as though he was telling his Erasthai that he didn't have to go through all this on his own.
A matrimony was sacred, and after the kind of bond that Nour had been forced into with Grant by the fates, Zaire didn't want that to be how their future was written. Like some strategy that could be crossed off once done.
He didn't want his Erasthai to feel like his life was always meant to go a certain way and had to benefit everyone.
Nour deserved to live a free life.
Having him always stressed out beat the purpose for which Soraya had intended when she asked the king to keep their child away from the crown so he could have a normal life.
And Zaire would make sure the balance was there for the love of his life.
