The Rejected Bride
“Don’t you want to rest tonight?”
“I have been resting for too long, my queen,” he said, kissing my hand. “I think it’s high time we consummate our marriage, or don’t you think?”
Those were the words that haunted me for the rest of the evening; consummate our marriage. Whilst it had been a scary thought when I’d first arrived, after a while, I’d grown to expect and even anticipate it. I was happy even with the age difference.
But after Ibrahim’s violation, after he had taken what it was the minster was expecting to receive, it was now an even more frightening thought than before.