A Substituted Bride But A Fated Luna
He plucked it carelessly, twirling it between his fingers as he waited.
If not for the dark-clad soldiers standing at his back, I might have mistaken him for the Charles I once knew—the masked Rose Knight who had saved me from vampires, or the man who had laid out roses by the sea for his proposal.
Seeing me, Charles rose, dropping the rose to the ground without a glance, crushing it under his boot as he stepped forward.
That rose, now flattened beneath his heel, seemed to reflect what little hope remained between us.
"So, what brings you here?" I asked first, voice as cold as I could manage. "Is a formal declaration of war not enough? Or are you here to issue it yourself?"
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