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Of Shadows and Roses

"I am the darkness, you are the light—one cancels out the other. My darling, we are not fated to be together." Under the guise of peace and union, Rosette Aldrich is set to be married off by her royal parents to the Crown Prince of their enemy kingdom. She knows of her family's ulterior motives, that is why she allows her insistent parents to believe that she agrees to their wishes. When the day for her to meet her betrothed arrives, she sets out to humiliate her parents as revenge, planning to escape far away right after. However, things take an unpredictable turn when she gets lost in the forest while running from the guards, where she's almost turns into dinner for a beast. Just before she fades out from consciousness, she sees that the person who had saved her looks a lot like the man she was to marry. Only that... he isn't? Rasvien is the captain of the mercenaries who keep the beasts of the Evernight Forest in check. One night, while patrolling, he saves a girl from being killed by an orc. Somehow, in a series of unfortunate events, he ends up being responsible for Rosette. He thinks that she is rude and stuck-up, a rich girl who's just acting out while running from home. And that she is hiding something big behind those cunning beautiful blue eyes. But, that's not to say he isn't hiding secrets himself either.

JosieoftheEmbers · Fantasie
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123 Chs

Didn’t know

Yet one more thing to add to the never-ending list of things I don't understand. 

I didn't want to think about this for another second, how Lucien might think that being close with Arin was a bad idea. I get that he was skeptical of her, but what if he was merely getting the wrong impression about her. But then again, I had only been here in the elven realm for a day and a half. I didn't have enough basis to draw a proper conclusion.

And so, just like all the other mysteries in my life, I pushed the matter aside. If the day were to come to where I had to address this problem, then so be it. But it's not going to be today. However, I wasn't entirely certain if I would follow Lucien's advise. At the end of it all, I dictated my own life. Arin had done so much for me in the sparse time I'd spend here, and it'd seem very wrong I would avoid her like that.