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Lord Theodore's Favorite Ritual

"I have waited for you in all of my lives, Gooseberry, and, in all of them you had left, please stay in this one" he pleaded, his eyes locked with hers. "I wish to stay too, My Lord Husband, because you are forever, Theodore " she whispered with tears in her eyes. A possible sacrifice is sent for him to devour but he will worship and do her however she desires. Every day, every season, forever, he will repeat the routine of the ritual which is her because she is his favourite ritual. Lydia Statham, an illegitimate girl living with her noble-born family in a land where her kinds were an unacceptable abomination, forced to live as an employed and never to be seen outside as a part of the Statham family, Lydia craved to be outside but never got to, but only through books and stories from others does she know the outside world, until a day came when a letter had been delivered to their estate ‘they was a bridal pick banquet at one of the biggest mansions in Critic Arley’ that was what Lydia knew as she travels to a banquet that every young lady was invited to but Lydia found herself alone in the enemy’s mansion. Lord Theodore, a feared outcast, an enemy of the Empire in which he dwells, of royal blood with no surname, a threat to the throne and possibly a lot more than the eyes meet has never wanted a wife, couldn’t fathom the idea of having a bundle of emotions living in the same mansion as he, but after a banquet had been thrown by Conan and half the population of critic arley had been invited. No one came but her. ******* "Call me Lordess Theodore" "I am Lordess Theodore and I am his favourite ritual" Dear Critic. Do you wish to https://buymeacoffee.com/nanafirdausi Discourse with me on discord @i_nanafirdausi Cover photo is mine.

I_Nana_Firdausi · Fantasy
Not enough ratings
199 Chs

Prologue

They whispered in the empire about him. A blacklisted member of the city by the emperor himself, They see him as the empire's enemy notwithstanding he is one of the strongest bodies that have helped establish Critic-Ishire.

Lord Theodore. A man who does not like to socialise and avoids drama is now soon to be the husband of a Critic Arlian. 

The marchioness's illegitimate daughter Lydia who became of the house Statham, envied, disregarded and despised by her family, She is the epitome of the lady bred in Critic-Ishire, prim, proper and sheltered, except she has the wiseness of a witch with enough information and knowledge that is frowned upon in the empire, she is forced to curb her innate desire for knowledge until the union with the most powerful man of Critic-Ishire happened opening doors she thought had ceased. 

They both went from being singularly hated, feared, disregarded and disrespected to the most hated couple of Critic-Ishire.