Defiance

Calmer now but above all happy, I waited for Sonia to return peacefully. There is a knock at the door and, believing it to be my servant, I ask for the person to enter.

My blood runs cold when, after days of reprieve, I find myself face to face with this annoying face and I immediately frown, telling him that his presence is unwanted.

"I see that you are still so cold towards your husband…"

"I see that you still haven't understood that I don't consider you as such."

Yes, since there is no mention of the seventh concubine anywhere, I will let go and wait for him to divorce me.

"You're so sassy, I should really punish you."

"It will still be better than you taking my body."

"I tend to believe that Garten continues to hope to free itself from my yoke even though their princess is under my control and I can do whatever I want to her."

"It's not about Garten here, it's about you and me and especially me who particularly hates you."

"It seems to me that personally, I did nothing to you, on the contrary I treated you with the respect due to your rank and your future status as a concubine. At that moment, your view of me was different, you even seemed to be madly in love with me."

I screwed up my face in disgust, sorry? Did this princess have no taste in men? Why so many errors in taste?

He saw my face twist and scowled.

"Unless it was just an act aimed at deceiving me."

He breathed deep in his throat and for a moment I thought I sensed an air of sadness in the back of his voice… But then I just ignored it and rolled my eyes. My imagination no doubt.

"Indeed, I faked it because I had no choice for the security of my kingdom."

Ah, what am I saying here? But if it shocks him and makes him repudiate me, that's a big yes.

"Tell me why ? Why do you hate me so much? I have not deprived your kingdom of its freedom and sovereignty, your parents are still its sovereigns, it is true they must pay tribute every year but compared to being subjects under one of my ministers, I find that I treated Garten very well."

"On the condition that they sell you their princess, didn't you already have enough wives? That you absolutely needed a child to complete your harem?"

"I don't see any child here. Furthermore, marrying a princess from a kingdom that I could have destroyed is not a privilege for me, all my ministers are of this opinion in any case, this marriage brings nothing to Sylian."

"So why insist?"

"Because, I desire you. Isn't that enough to make concessions?"

"You just disgust me Emperor Yann De Sylian."

He sighed and approached me while I took a step back.

"Consort Anya, I am not a man you want to mess with, no matter how sassy you are, you are the one who will burn your wings."

"What? Are you going to take the people of Garten hostage to force me to love you?"

"No, but I will make your life livinghell. Continue to resist and push me away and you who have always lived like a princess will crawl like a worm in the mud."

I have never known such scum, he wants me to be a doggy woman so much that he is ready to do anything to make me bend? Ah he doesn't know who he's dealing with. Alexia Donovan was raised by her mother to deal with any situation. If he thinks he's threatening me and scaring me, he's got his finger in the eye.

I smile as he scowls. He would have thought that his threat would have been enough to make me more docile but no, I will maintain my defiant air.

"Let's see, Emperor, how far you will be able to go to make me bend because I will not give in no matter the mistreatment."