Often, Leonor wondered how her life would have turned out if her mother were still alive. Would she have made the same decisions? Would her father ever have raised his hand against her in the first place?
The love she experienced with Desmond bloomed out of her desire to hide from her father. It grew underneath the pressure of a noble daughter sneaking out to see someone supposedly so far below her station she never should have looked at him in the first place.
If fate was real, she would have certainly crossed paths with him eventually, but what would their story have looked like?
The logical side of her knew that if her mother were there, she wouldn't have done everything she could to escape Burien. However, if her mother was there, she would have likely allowed Leonor to love whoever she wanted to freely since she wasn't able to. She would have fought for her daughter to remain the heiress yet bring in someone at her side who suited her rather than benefitted her family.
