“Will you marry me?!”
“Never.”
Silence filled the air after that one word. It's humiliating actually, but it seems that the rejected male’s mind is in the gutter as he seems to have developed a degradation kink with the way she looked at him and how sharp her words were. He is only looking at her with those lovesick eyes that shows that he didn't hear it at all.
But did Astrid care?
Nope.
Not in the slightest.
It's a harsh one though. She didn't say ‘no, I don't want to’, ‘not now’, or a simple ‘no’. But she answered with a solid ‘never’ that only states that she has no interest in either the concept of marriage, or the person that proposed to her.
But the harsh treatment that everyone states is something that the greedy and opportunistic nobles will use against her. Despite t
