31: LOVE BOUND

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He aggressively spread her legs open, she barely had time to react before his lips grazed the sensitive skin of her inner thigh…

Dearest reader, let us not get ahead of ourselves.

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The morning of her wedding dawned in eerie silence. The once-vibrant halls of Calithea were lifeless, veiled in the kind of quiet that followed ruin. The air was thick, suffocating and heavy with the weight of the kingdom's grief.

Zara sat rigid on the edge of the unfamiliar bed, her hands clenched into fists. Her nails dug into her palms, but she barely noticed the sting. Her mind swirled with fire and fury, her body thrumming with unspent rage.

 She had been caged, humiliated, stripped of everything, her kingdom, her freedom, and worst of all, him. Erythian. The man who had bled for her. The man who had loved her.