HEARTS & FANGSUpdated at Apr 1, 2026, 12:37
'I hate you! I hate you! I'll never be the wife that you deserve!' she yelled.
He closed his eyes and sighed.
When he opened them, he took a step forward to speak with her.
'I do not want the wife that I deserve Cassiopeia because it is you that I want," he informed her.
Rage boiled in her stomach at his words, leaving her disorientated for a minute.
She soon found her lost composure.
'Then,' she began.
Her lips pursed as she hesitated for only a moment.
'I'll never be a wife, still yet yours!' she enunciated every word like a promise.
He froze, his eyes flashing silver with anger as he clenched his fists.
'Say that again,' he told her in a hard icy voice, 'and face the rowen.'
It was a dare.
He had just dared her.
She swallowed softly.
And despite the threat, she slowly climbed out of bed.
Then, she went up to him.
Her gaze met his steel like one as she
tilted her head to look at him.
Her tear stained emerald eye held him in a challengingly way, unimpressed.
'I will never be a wife much less yours,' she repeated in a raspy but rather confident voice.
He stared at her for a long time, simmering beneath.
The tension in the bedroom thickened greatly as their gazes clashed.
Blood roared in her ears with each passing minute, his eyes boring deep into the depths of her soul.
Yet, she didn't back down.
She wouldn't let him win.
Silence reigned as their stare down intensified, and everyone in the bed room stood in trepidation, awaiting his eppy.
When he spoke again, it was in a calm yet jussive voice that betrayed the extremity of his anger.
'Everyone,' he ordered.
She swallowed.
'Out!' he finished.
They didn't wait a moment, all festinating out, skedaddling away as quickly as they could before anyone of them suffered from a transfer of aggression.
And when the door closed with a small click sound behind them, he exhaled.
He reached out, hands around her waist and drew her to him unexpectedly.
'You are mine,' he simply told her with surety before he lipped her.
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She knew nothing, except that she wanted out, away from him—the beast.
She knew not what she wanted, especially with a damaged head and fragmented memories.
But, she just knew that she wanted nothing, absolutely nothing to do with the monster that left her in perplexity.
He wasn't what she thought he was.
He was what she would never dream to think.
He was a part of her and she was a part of him.
He would never let her go.
She must be there, with him, under his spell, wrapped around his thumb lest everything would go wrong.
And if it did, he was the only person who could try, really try to put it back in place for with her.
For with her, nothing wrong could ever be right once it went wrong.