BELLADORA.
STRAKH- FEAR.
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“I don’t think anyone is ready for their wedding night, especially not when you’re getting married to a killer.” I swallowed roughly and her blunt, coarse words.
Of course I knew this to be fact, but I felt irritation fill me. I looked at her then and she must have seen something in my expression because her body visibly tensed.
“No, I doubt it,” I said and let those words hang in the air between us.
“I’m sure your mother felt the same way when she was forced to marry your father.” I felt this fire burn inside of me, knew I should have shut my mouth, but the words just kept spilling out.
“And I’m sure you’ll feel the same thing when your father pawns you off, just like mine is doing to me.”
Neither one of us spoke for so long I didn’t think she’d
