The Helio's Bride
A princess with a twisted past. When her fate takes an unfortunate turn, she is thrown off her pedestal and into the web of marriage with the bloodthirsty king of the enemy kingdom. Faced with life and death choices, Delaney must decide whether to side with the enemy—her new husband—or her family who betrayed her. __ As the son of the sun goddess, Darius finds his life unnecessarily long and boring. Until he meets his bride, Delaney, the feisty, fiery princess who is rumored to have rejected suitors by the dozen, the only female descendant of his arch nemesis, and a demon princess. When they get married, will he use her in his quest for revenge, or fall in the trap of her charm like every other male does?
Proposal (2)
"You didn't have to bring so many gifts." She was in awe of the gifts she was being brought but she didn't deserve any of them.
That was not what Zephyr thought. "You deserve them."
"I don't." She disagreed. "I'm not even a princess. I'm a maid." She whispered out the last part because her presence had been announced as "Princess Marlena". No one knew she had told him the truth.
Zephyr cupped her face. "That doesn't make you any less deserving of gifts and affection." When he saw her flinch, he pulled his hands away. "My apologies."
"It's okay." She sat on the bench when he invited her to sit beside him. They were in one of the secluded gardens and she had a pretty good feeling she knew what the queen was hoping to achieve. If she and Zephyr got up to any inappropriate conduct, she would force them to marry.
She decided it was best to get out of it as soon as she could. Maybe she could find out the queen's plan some other way?