LOGINChapter 7: Marriage IVThird Person’s POVThe rest of the ride was a stilled silence brooding with tension.A space that could fit two grown adults separated Raimere and Varyan. But Raimere couldn’t stop the tensing of her muscles at hearing and feeling the littlest bits of movements around her.This continued until the sound of arrival bellowed by the leader of the guard of cavalries.Raimere felt the slowing of the carriage until it stopped.Her eyes that never strayed away from the floor of the carriage after that incident, lit up as they peered outside her window.“Wow…” A word of wonder escaped her lips as her pupils shook from the utter beauty of the sight that occupied her.A majestic castle with walls the color of white gold exudes a terrifying pressure like a behemoth sleeping in the deep abyss. The castle reaches up towards the horizon and into the embrace of the clouds as far as her eyes can see. The unique sigil of the Valerius clan fluttered proudly at the top of the five
Chapter 6: Marriage IIIThird Person’s POVThe Valerius clan envoy with the striking red sigils attracted the attention of the citizens passing the main road of the Rogue capital.The bustling sight captured Raimere’s shining golden pupils as she reveled in the lively and joyful expressions of the citizens.She has always been cooped up inside the emerald forest and has grown to the age of twenty without even knowing what the outside world looks like. Her only knowledge of the outside world came from the books and travel journals that she has read.Seeing the real thing made her tangled mood of anger, anxiety and hatred to lessen.But their carriage quickly left the vibrant city streets and crossed the magnificent gate of the capital, before taking the brick road leading to the blackwood forest.The originally bustling environment plummeted to cold silence, and Raimere could no longer disregard the huge presence of the man next to her without the distraction from outside the carriage
Chapter 5: Marriage IIThird Person’s POVThe bright yellow hue of the horizon mellowed to orange as the sun slowly hid in the embrace of the clouds.The grand manor of the Valerius king family stood at the central territory of the Rogue capital along with the Cavalier king family and the Sanguis king family.The central territory is home to the nobles, generals and the wealthy citizens at the top of the Rogue kingdom’s hierarchy.The black ivory walls of the grand manor shone with a repressed authority.Red flags bearing the Valerius sigil hang proudly at every pillar, and the white marbled floor glittered like mirrors from the hard work of the servants.The quarter of the grand heir of the Valerius was situated at the third story of the five-story grand manor. Its balcony faces the east with plentiful of sunlight and owns a good view of the wide front garden of the manor.Raimere walked out of the cloakroom, followed by the smiling Bella and the blushing Nora.“My lady, you look ama
Chapter 4: MarriageRaimere Celeste’s POV“Open your lips.”His deep mellow voice littered with playful indifference echoed inside the quiet room.Those thin lips of his tilted amusingly as he lifted my face. His hand squeezed my jaw with controlled force that bordered the threshold of pain.His ruby-red eyes boring down on mine flickered with underlying intensity, but no thoughts could be read behind those orbs.I blanked out.What does he mean?I could not follow his thoughts, nor do I wish to.But it seems like my body has a mind of its own, courtesy of the seal binding us through marriage.The golden vines ring pattern on both of our ring fingers shone with brilliance, and I could feel an ancient power coursing through my limbs.My tightly closed lips parted on its own volition, as if waiting for the man in front of me to take his picking, like a doll to be ordered.Anger rushed to my head, and I forcefully shut my lips by biting them fiercely enough to draw blood.Seeing my reject
Chapter 3: DevilRaimere Celeste’s POV“Ugh…”“Cough…cough...”How did it come to this?How did I land in the hands of this devil?“You look so weak and flimsy, but you managed to worm your way to be my bride. I don’t know if I can call you scheming or just plain stupid?”A smirk full of derision did nothing to abate the murderous glint on those terrifying beastly red pupils.Long slender fingers curled on my thin neck and the weakest grip of this devil almost shattered the living daylights out of me.The warmth coming from those fingers brought forth chills colder than the year-round snow of the north mountains.My feet flailed helplessly as I tried to keep the edges of my toes touching the ground. My hands clutched at his strangling arm, but my weak strength only sported whitened nail marks on his skin.“L-Let me…ugh…g-go!”He humorlessly laughed at my plight, probably finding my struggle as something amusing.If not for the silver seal runes acting like a piece of paper separating
Chapter 2: Tribute IIRaimere Celeste’s POVIncessant buzzing and incomprehensible words drifted past my ears. The sound of faint footsteps and the rustling of fabrics superimposed and drummed against my senses.Darkness clouded my vision and a heavy force seems to be pushing down on the lids of my eyes.I tried opening my eyes, but a wave of fatigue flowed all over my limbs as my waning spirit tried to fight off the impending sleepy spell that keeps on hovering above me.A touch of cold fabric softly slid on my cheeks, the chill brought a sense of clarity in my mind, and I laboriously lifted my heavy lids, fractal lights penetrated the darkness and a blurry canvas smudged with various colors greeted my cloudy pupils.It took a few minutes for my vision to gain clarity, and the first thing that caught my eye was the three servants in my small inconspicuous room that nobody in the clan ever visits.One of the three was the one that was wiping my face with a wet fabric. I remember her a







