Synopsis
Kidnapping, imprisonment, and a faked death.
Those were the things the beautiful illegitimate prince, Oscar de Dumarc, had done to the pitiful genius, Sonya Leblanc.
Yet Sonya Leblanc, an Oosterian orphan, an impure mongrel no better than a beast, could do nothing to resist the prince’s outrageous acts.
All she could do was somehow fulfill his wishes, no matter what it took.
Clutching the cracked perfume bottle, now completely empty, Sonya stared blankly with her ashen-gray eyes, as though the world had come to a standstill.
Before long, hot tears streamed down her gaunt cheeks.
Only after finally receiving the news of his death, when the entire world before her eyes had crumbled, did Sonya Leblanc understand.
That everything he had done to bind her to him had stemmed from a long-held yearning to let her spread her wings and soar freely.
That the cruelty with which he had killed and imprisoned her had been a desperate struggle to protect her, somehow, from a world on the verge of collapse.
The man she had tried so desperately to push away.
The devilish man she had feared so very much.
That dreadful man, Oscar de Dumarc.
The truth was, he had been her entire world.
Her salvation.
She had realized it far too late.
Now, when it was all in vain.
