A Thousand year old Forest guardian has loved only one human woman but can never have her, she often slips away from him through death and there was nothing he could do to save her. After waiting for what felt like an eternity, she was finally reborn again, but this lifetime is the last one she could have, she has exalted all her chances of reincarnation and should she die this time, she would stop existing. Knowing this and that his presence is the only threat she has, can he bear to lose her forever? Also, after waiting for her to reincarnate all these years, can he bear to stay away knowing she is within arm’s reach?
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Mariah never thought that one day her perfect life wouldn’t be so perfect anymore. Who would have expected that her father, the King’s special adviser, would one day be accused of trying to kill the king and take his place?
But even though no one thought that, it happened and her family became the king and kingdom’s most hated enemy. Banished out of the kingdom till a befitting punishment is decided on, Mariah and her family had to move to the little house outside the kingdom and close to the forest which frightening stories had been told about. Mariah thought that things can never be worse but it all changed when she started receiving uninvited strange guests.
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Come Love A Stranger

<p>Mariah sat in her room and let her handmaidens dress her up, it has been more than five days since the day Alador brought her back to the room and has not shown himself to her again. No matter what she does, even though she would often stand in her balcony and call out to him, he never answers, he never appears. When he had said he would keep away, she never thought he meant it until now. Twice she had sneaked out of her home at night to search for him in the forest but no matter how long she searched, she never sees him. She knew she had to stop lying to herself, even if she denied it earlier because she had just met him and haven’t known him for long, she couldn’t do it anymore, her heart beats for him, so deeply than it has ever beat for any man.</p>

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