“i can’t give up on you, so please don’t give up on yourself.”
Alecto crumpled the letter in her hand. “I don’t know what to do. I don’t want to marry someone I’ve never met. I thought perhaps...” Perhaps it would be Evan, with whom she would at least have good company and a level of understanding. Or any of the boys she went to school with even, someone she had a face for, an acquaintance with. “I don’t see an alternative.”













