Sad Fate

'Jerome… if he is really so in love with me… he's probably keeping me here, because he's afraid I'll leave him. After all, I've made it clear from the start that I don't want to be with him… but if I make him believe in that I love him… maybe I can increase his sense of security so much, that he at least agrees into having a baby, and if I have a kid a Bumm! I'm leaving this damn place legally! '

As soon as she got up from the edge of the bed, the king had already attacked her. She didn't even had time to say hello, Jerome immediately pushed her on the bed, not even wasting his time closing the door.

When, between two kisses, Ariana finally gasped for air, she shouted at him.

"I want a divorce!"

The air in the room froze for a moment. Jerome stared at the girl beneath him, unable to react until she shuddered at the slamming of the slowly closing room door.

"What?"

"I… I…"

Ariana quickly forced tears in her eyes.

"I'm so sorry Jerome… but… I fell in love with you…"

She sniffed, and then covered her eyes as if ashamed of herself.

"But I am infertile…. and I have no right to further occupy this position… even if I die from wanting to be with you so much… but I am unfit to give birth to a heir to you and… "

Jerome then pressed his index finger to her lips.

„Ariana…"

Touched, he wiped away her tears and embraced the light body.

"Don't be silly - you know I love you more than anything - I could never let go! You are not barren… you do not have to worry about it, you are only young … it is not yet time to have a child. "

"But what if the oppositing nobles rebel, because such an useless woman took the title of queen?"

"Don't worry… as long as Jürgen does his job properly, no aristocrat can question my power… believe me my love… no one and nothing can separate us!"

„Jerome…"

"Yes?"

The king looked softly into her eyes as his two palms pressed against her face.

"Do you love me?"

"More than anything else…"

He said touchedly, the man felt like he had never been happier, than now at this moment, when Ariana finally admitted her feelings.

"But you love me… the way I love you, don't you?"

"Yes… I love you that way."

He kissed the girl.

"Then why can't I take my place next to you… I mean, I know that Jürgen is politically the one you need for my position… but if I lived in the central palace…"

Then her voice trailed off. The king's face went completely dark, and her heart was strangled by a strange feeling.

"You can never leave this place."

He finally said. The man was so cold that for a moment Ariana felt Jerome's touch, which had just been so gentle and warm — now colder than an iceberg. She knew she should just approve now… but unconsciously asked the question.

"Why?"

At that moment, the man pushed her back to the bed.

"Because that's the only way we can be together! Just so… only here you are safe! You do not understand?!"

He shouted, then, like a wild beast, tore her dress.

Even the slightest trace of tenderness was gone, leaving nothing but the starving beast, who didn't keep it a secret, that he would not let go of his prey until he saw even a small trace of life in it.

As Ariana looked at her husband's distorted face, as he made her his woman again and again, she could almost hear the man's thoughts.

"You are mine… only mine … you will stay with me forever!"

As the naked body of the girl, which was unable to move was illuminated by the rays of the morning sun, Ariana's gaze saw only the king's figure disappearing behind the door… as her only hope drifted away with Jerome's departure.

"He will never… let me go… not alive…"

A tear rolled down her face, as she recognized her sad fate.