Semua Bab The Line She Crossed: Bab 1 - Bab 10

Seeing Alaric like that, Seraphina immediately flew into rage again.“This isn’t over, Cassian!“You enjoy ruining people, don’t you?” she asked before turning to the other bodyguards.“Scratch his face to pieces for me!”My parents rushed forward to intervene, their voices filled with terror.“We’ll apologize to him! Please, can you let Cassian go?”Seraphina remained unmoved.My eyes started to water at the sight of my pleading parents.Ever since I got engaged to Seraphina, I had lost count of how many times she had humiliated me for Alaric’s sake.Now, she was humiliating my parents, too.She hadn’t even considered becoming one family with me, had she?Alaric suddenly whined in distress.“Were the toad eggs really that awful?”Seraphina narrowed her eyes and addressed my parents.“I can let Cassian go, but you have to finish the rest of the toad eggs.”A bodyguard clamped my neck and pressed a knife close to my face.My parents hurriedly lifted their glasses.“No!

“You really picked the worst possible moment to come back.“But you were discharged so quickly. Were you actually fine? Were you just exaggerating?”I grabbed the ashtray from the table and hurled it at Alaric’s head.Seraphina instinctively pulled his head into her arms and took the blow for him.“Is this ever going to end?“I already told you I’d marry you. Why do you keep picking on Alaric?”Once, when Seraphina and I were kidnapped, she had held me the same way, fearless, taking a knife for me.But now, the person she protected had become someone else, a man who didn’t even need her protection.I looked at the scar on her shoulder, already faded with time, and completely let go of my feelings for her.After all these years, it had been nothing but my one-sided devotion.“Alaric, you’ve protected me so many times. I finally get to protect you this once.”Their cloying intimacy made my stomach churn.“Get out of my house,” I said through clenched teeth.Alaric laughed an

“Wishing you both… never to be parted.”Everyone could hear the mocking undertone in those words.Seraphina’s parents finally grasped the gravity of the situation. They stepped in front of us, forcing a weak smile.“Cassian, is this a joke? Isn’t today supposed to be your wedding with Sera?“Surely you’re just performing a little show for everyone?“And please, don’t ever do this again.”I smiled at them, gesturing toward the marriage certificate Alaric still held.“They already registered their marriage, so how is this a joke?“Sorry, gotta go. My wedding is starting too.”Harold and Margaret’s faces burned with humiliation.“Sera! Explain yourself! What is going on here?”Seraphina turned pale, unable to speak.So I spoke for her.“She said she once promised to give herself to Alaric, so she had to marry him first.“Before the wedding, they even shared the bridal chamber several times.“I’m a romantic. How could I break up true love? So I had to let them be together.

“I told you to play! I didn’t tell you to be serious!” Margaret yelled back.Harold fumed fiercely and then slapped Margaret across the face.“You’ve spoiled her rotten! That’s why this mess happened!“Where does that leave my dignity?”Margaret grabbed my hand.“Cassian, listen to me. If you care about Sera being twice-married, we can sue Alaric.“Claim fraud, and annul the marriage. How about that?”Harold knew full well that if this wedding fell through, those patents would no longer be available for his company.Who knew? I might even take revenge.So, looking at Isolde he gritted his teeth and said, “Fine. You just need to marry Sera. You like this girl, you can keep her. “It doesn’t matter. We won’t object.”But Seraphina did not share his thoughts.“What right do you have to share a man with me?”I swung my still-healing arm and smashed Harold across the face.Forget respecting elders, I couldn’t care less.His words had insulted me, and Isolde.“Do you think I’

“But being able to marry you makes me very happy.”Only then did I realize that Isolde’s calm composure earlier had been an act.She had believed I had asked her to step in merely as a last‑minute rescue, not because I truly wanted to marry her.I pinched her nose lightly. “Don’t say something so silly. I already set an alarm. We’re going to register our marriage first thing tomorrow morning.”Isolde’s eyes lit up instantly. “Really?”I nodded. “Really.”She threw herself into my arms and held me tightly.She was so excited that she didn’t sleep at all that night. Early the next morning, she urged me out the door, and we went together to get our marriage certificate.Only when she held the certificate in her hands did she finally break into a radiant smile.I felt that I truly had wronged her.From then on, I resolved to treat her well and never betray her.My parents rarely stayed in the country anymore, and Isolde’s parents lived overseas, so we decided to move abroa