- Laith Taher 241
Hammond’s disadvantages included the fact that he
lived a difficult life in the desert that was far from the
joyful life she had been used to, ever since she was a baby.
Besides, the Prouds had fought a horrible war with her
father, and Hammond’s family definitely hated her and
wished her evil. Although that applied to Jarvis also, he
possessed many advantages that Hammond did not, which
would make her accept Jarvis.
Yet, Hammond had many advantages. Everybody
considered the Prouds to be the most invincible tribe. She
thought that she was the best and that she must get married
to the best.
Hammond was her only option as Jarvis and he
were the only ones approved by her father to marry her.
Kings were too scared to propose to her as her father had
already rejected two of them. Furthermore, some of them
would not propose to her because of her bad reputation of
flirting with men.
It was true that Hammond was not like Jarvis, but
Jarvis was one in a million, and it was difficult to find
someone like him among kings and princes and, at the end
of the day, Hammond was a better man than those kings
and princes.
Besides, how could she possibly justify her refusal
to her father, if she did refuse, after having already
approved his suggestion of letting either Hammond or his
brother marry her? Her father had already talked to
Hammond about it, and it was difficult for him to take it
back.
There was another reason for her approval, which
was her wish to stay near Jarvis, who was the only man she
really liked.