The Archduke's Songbird
***Completed*** Lady Jessamyn brought home a ten-year-old orphan when she was eight. He was handsome ^_~. She provided him with a place to stay and warm meals. As they grew up, she desired to marry him, despite their differing statuses. As war raged, he signed up for the military, promising to ask for her hand when he was worthy. Two years later, he became more than what he promised he would be. He became the Archduke of Ayberia. But he broke her heart by marrying her friend. Years rolled away; life happened. She married a man who loved her and fell madly in love with him. She didn't think of him again. But fate was cruel; she was widowed at the age of twenty-one. She lost everything. Seven years later, she met a mysterious wolf while she was out at work in the Archduke's fief. She had a fall. The next morning, she found herself on the Archduke's bed. Did fate bring them together again? Or something nefarious is at play? Is this a chance for a second love? Will she find out why he abandoned her in the past? Is it possible to rekindle their old love, or is it too late? ----- Join me in this journey. Your comments and votes are appreciated. Gift me to motivate me. Updates will be daily.
Hidden Agenda
Winter Solstice—the day where the day is the shortest and the night the longest. It was the official start of winter and also the day the Altaians celebrated the rebirth of the sun as the longer days return.
Since it was a day of celebration for the people of Altania, their enemies, Winter Solstice was considered an inauspicious day in Ayberia.
And another thing.
Jessamyn was born in the middle of the longest night of the year—on the night of Winter Solstice.
Even her birth was inauspicious.
When she was young, the maids in the house told her that she had arrived unexpectedly with a month, still left to the due date. She hurried to come to the world on the most ill-omened day.
Looking at the baby's raven-black hair and aberrant blue eyes, even the midwife who helped her mother asked her mother to kill the baby so that the baby's misfortune wouldn't affect the family.