It wasn’t until Professor Zephyr Soren locked eyes with Lady Adeena Nesrin that he saw how poisonous of a noble she could be.

Curious about what kind of trouble the young noblewoman could truly get into he had watched her from afar.

One evening when he joined his colleagues for dinner, their eyes met across the hearth room.

She gave him a simpering smile but there was a tinge of fear that flickered through her gaze and with it came the other half of missing memories from the other timeline.

He knew he’d gone mad back then but he didn’t realize how far he had until he’d received the other personality’s memories from the other timeline.

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He’d been split into two in the other timeline, himself and his brother. His brother personality had fallen in love with Lady Adeena Nesrin and he’d been played as a fool. She’d used him as her personal artificer, only coming to him when she needed something. His half-heart split in two when she became engaged to the prince, still he sided with her against the Thornes. Still, he loved her but then the kingdom began to fall around her.

As her parents had laid siege to the Fortress, as he regained his main personality he had gone after her. He came very close to killing her that day, and perhaps things would have been better if he had. Time would not have been rewound and yet…he would never have been given hope at the hands of the new Lady Vienna Thorne.

He left dinner that night troubled and he tossed and turned during the night as the memories from the other timeline threatened to drive him mad.

He woke from restless sleep and he went to his small potted plant from Lady Thorne and his experiments. He felt a wave of reassurance sent through its leaves and he felt no longer so alone.

He would not allow history to repeat itself.

He would gladly give his life to protect the Thornes rather than see the kingdom descend into the madness from the other timeline.