SANDY:“Do I look like I'm going to a funeral?” I asked Honora, sounding nervous. She nodded. “Yes, My Queen. But no worries. You're the most beautiful woman I know. But you have to add some smile, okay? Even if you're like this. So please, will you smile a bit? Are you even nervous right now?”“Yes,” I replied. There were so many unsaid worries in my head right now. Worries that I wanted to keep to myself. “Oh. You don't have to, My Queen. It will be a short ceremony since you opted for an intimate wedding. But I don't think the same will happen next time, My Queen. If there will be a second wedding. You know. The king is now only after for the legalities. I do believe that the king is in a hurry that's why he allowed this. If you both have a child after marriage, he or she will inherit the crown.”“It was still a question on my part how he agreed to this wedding.”“We are on the same page, My Queen. I mean…king's would usually flex their wedding to the whole world. If I am not m
SANDY:The slow rise and fall of Lucius' breathing was enough to tell me that he was already asleep. Just like that.This was the oddest wedding that I known. And experienced.I meant, who would do something like this? Thus was not unheard of. Two mates who were ajit to get married shouldnjit stay in the same room.Maybe he was that confident that you're not going to run away.How could I run away when I already vowed to push the wedding after he released my ex-mate?And even if I did not, I was not the type who would just runaway and broke what was agreed.‘I will be the happiest tomorrow,’ Rina said, sighing happily. ‘I will get to marry the man of my dreams.’‘Tge last time I heard, the man of your dream was Alpha Oswald. Now, it was another man. How many times will you keep on saying that to different men?’ I asked. She growled at me.‘How could you be so mean to me?’‘Wta I don't understand is how you keep on accepting the man who bought iou from your parents.’‘Well, if there
SANDY:The King opened his mouth, and then closed again. As if he found it tiring to argue with me.Good. When it comes to the child, I will do anything to defend him. Lucius needed to know right away that I was not the type who would back down to any arguments.“I'm not going to argue with you right now. It’s draining my energy. I’m tired from the journey.”I cheered internally.Most of the time, everyone would just give up on me.Smiling sweetly, I stated, “Thank you very much, Your Highness. You may go now.” I pointed at the door. “Tomorrow is a big day.”Tomorrow.I did not know what I should be feeling right now. Tomorrow, I will no longer be an ordinary commoner. I would become a queen where everybody would bow down. That everybody would respect. I would rule this kingdom beside Lucius. The thought was already scary.This was never my dream. And if this were a dream, I wished I would wake up from this. “I should go?” he asked. Bad move. He did not like it at all.“Please,
SANDRA:Lucius was one infuriating man. He knows what button to press to awaken my anger.No. Everything about this man infuriates me at all. “I don't care,” I said, and intentionally bumped into him, showing how annoyed I was with him, and then went to our room. Or maybe it will be my room now since I did not have any plans of letting the kid go away.He suddenly matched my place even if I was the one who left him first.“Sandra! Did you intentionally bump into me?”I thought he would say something more serious. “Yes, I did, Your Highness,” I replied. “If you're going to punish me, do it. But I will never change my mind at all. The kid will stay and I will continue to argue with you until you accept him as part of the new family. My family.”“A family? Isn't your parents not enough? Why take someone whom you did not even know?”“Unfortunately, I don't have the best relationship with my parents, Your Highness. I hope you will understand that. In fact, I told my mother that they're
SANDY:Lucius was mad. The carriage was rising with tension with each passing moment. However, I tried to shrug it off, wanting to focus on the child beside me. He mattered the most compared to this grumpy Lycan King.I should treat Lucius as if he did not exist in the carriage.You're treating the king like that? As if you will stay alive after this, the other part of my mind stated. The uncomfortable silence stretched like springs, which I shrugged off until we reached the palace after a couple of hours more. The royal guards and my lady-in-waiting rushed to us the moment they found out about our arrival.I stretched my back after a long time of sitting in the carriage. The kid was also awake before I could wake him up. "My Queen!" Honora cried when I stepped out of the carriage, together with the kid.If he will not talk, or doesn't know how to talk, I have to think of names for him. “Honora. It's so nice to see another familiar face in the palace.”However, the smile disappear
SANDY:Could I tell the future? As far as I knew, I never had that kind of gift. I blocked Lucius's sight of the child using my body.I will never allow any strand of hair to be pulled out from the kid. Over my dead body.‘You think you can do something against him?’ my wolf cried. ‘You are defenseless against him, Sandy. The least thing that you should do is say that you're sorry. He will understand.’Why would I even do that? It was this man's fault to begin with!“I could not see the future at all, Your Highness. One thing is for sure. I will never allow an innocent child to die in that desert, Your Highness. If he betrays in the end despite being a Good Samaritan, I had no control over that.”“You're being foolish.”“Yeah. I may be foolish right now, but my conscience will not allow it if something happens to this kid. Do whatever you want, but I made a vow to protect him with all I could.”He raised an eyebrow. “What's your deal? You're not a savior, Sandra. Do not save eve