Emma couldn't argue that, from anyone's point of view, an engaged woman who almost married her fiance shouldn't fall in love with another man. But that was exactly what her mother did.
She agreed it looked bad. However, Emma was sure that if her mother forced herself to marry Prince Darius without love ... their marriage would not be happy.
"If my mother asked permission to cancel her engagement to Prince Darius ... would Your Majesty be able to accept it?" asked Emma earnestly.
"I already considered Arreya like my own daughter," answered King Cassius. "If she didn't just run off and embarrassed us ... maybe it would have been a different story."
Emma was pensive, hearing the king's answer. She actually did not understand why her father and mother waited until the last moment before they decided to run away from Akkadia and get married.