All Chapters of The Wicked Empress and her Possessive Beast: Chapter 81 - Chapter 83

Marriage ruined palace boundaries almost immediately.By the third morning after their wedding, the servants of Silverhall had collectively abandoned any remaining hope that the Black Dominion emperor intended to maintain a dignified imperial distance from his wife. Draevor had somehow managed to appear in nearly every place Halrem considered private, and he did so with the confidence of a man who had already decided that being married gave him unrestricted access to her life.Halrem found him in her physician’s chambers before breakfast, seated beside her worktable with military dispatches spread across one side and medicinal records covering the other. He reviewed both with the same concentration, as though military strategy and surgical anatomy naturally belonged on the same table.She had found him waiting in her carriage during city inspections as well, despite the fact that he already had three imperial escorts assigned to accompany him. He had also developed the habit of int

The northern strategy council had begun as a serious military discussion and somehow deteriorated into an emotional catastrophe within forty minutes.Halrem blamed Draevor entirely.The council chamber overlooking Silverhall’s western battlements had been prepared for war analysis rather than domestic humiliation. Maps stretched across the central strategy table beneath hanging lanterns while northern generals and Silverhall commanders debated cavalry positioning near the disputed southern borders.Rain tapped steadily against the tall glass windows, filling the pauses between discussions as Draevor stood at the head of the table. He was dressed in dark military attire, the sleeves rolled carelessly to his forearms, and one hand rested against the edge of the strategy map while he listened to regional supply reports with the focused attention that had made entire armies fear him.Halrem hated how attractive he became when concentrating on a battlefield.It was an unfortunate conditi