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" How about we help each other?" He says and I look up at him, eyes still wet from the tears streaming down my cheeks, heart freshly broken from the public humiliation and betrayal that was Lucas's breakup. I can faintly make out the first droppings of snow floating magically under the light of the street lamps. It's that time of the year, a time for wool coats, a time for relaxing, none of which I'll be doing. "I'm an orphan with a wicked aunt and a boyfriend who left her because she has nothing to her name, how could I possibly help you?" I say another sob escaping my lips. "Marry me" he replies and my eyes widen in anger. Is he mocking me?. I look into the eyes of this stranger and see he's dead serious. "I need a wife, you need a home, marry me and you'll have all you want". I nod.

A Snowy Marriage (A Christmas agreement)

I stopped in one place to see that everyone is looking at me surprised, everyone is looking at me surprised because three arrows have practically whooshed by me the next second, three arrows which i have successfully managed to dodge and which should not be possible.

I do not know when my body performed all these actions. I did not know how my body did something that feels like a backflip, and I had executed all these actions perfectly. I had executed everything on point and I wonder why?.

This is strange. I have never taken anything like an acrobatics class before, even when I was still with father and mother I had never taken anything like an acrobatics class so I do not get why I should be able to turn a flip so fluidly in the air. A flip that practically allowed an arrow to pass by my stomach while I was still in the air.

okay, this is weird, this is weird.

The next minute Alice simply bursts out crying, she starts crying and tears are streaming down her face.

I can only imagine how this is for her, to anyone else it would seem silly but I know that to her this means another thing.

I'd called her my sister earlier because I know it means something to her. I know that it would mean something to her and it is the truth. She had basically treated me like a sister ever since the night that she lost her own, and to see me almost impaled by an arrow, to see me almost at the doors of death, I'm guessing that it shook her.

It shook her so much so that she simply crumpled on the floor and she began crying almost like she cannot believe her eyes. I am simply standing here. I'm standing here shocked and I can already feel the energy that is humming around me. I feel pure instinct rolling out of me as something seems to be taking stock of exactly what is going to happen next.

The next arrow that flies by doesn't surprise me, it doesn't surprise me because I'm practically already moving, catching the thing just before it goes through Alice's head.

I fling it back expecting it to simply clank on the floor but it seems my body has a whole other objective of its own. It has a whole other directive as I see the same arrow fly in a straight line.

It flies with such agility and force that the next moment, someone starts groaning on the floor. I know that I have done something, I know that i have done something that i would have never thought to do.

Adrian looks like he's going to do even worse than that. He looks like he's going to do even worse than that because the next minute he practically rushes by me.

I cannot tell you how unreal all this feels. I feel like I'm in a dream, I feel like I'm in a dream which feels so so so real because I can practically feel the next arrow that is coming.

Chapter 162