The Conqueror's Wife
She doesn’t even flinch, as the full weight of her decision to accept the Emperor’s proposal falls on her shoulders.
‘The face mothers attribute to the death of their sons, name widows spit on when they remember their dead husbands’ She thinks of Latana and her mother, the look of hatred thrown her way by the grieving mother.
‘…You will be cursed, shamed, harassed because of the mark you will bear…’
She finally understands the meaning of his words, finally understand the mark he speaks of, it is not a physical mark, it was the title of being his wife, the woman on whose bosom he would rest his weary head after drenching himself in the blood of the innocent.
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