Barbaric Spouse, Descry the Night's Lure
img img Barbaric Spouse, Descry the Night's Lure img Chapter 1 Scene I - Prologue.
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Chapter 18 Scene XVIII img
Chapter 19 Scene XIX img
Chapter 20 Scene XX img
Chapter 21 Scene XXI - Learning in the Lure. img
Chapter 22 Scene XXII img
Chapter 23 Scene XXIII img
Chapter 24 Scene XXIV img
Chapter 25 Scene XXV img
Chapter 26 Scene XXVI img
Chapter 27 Scene XXVII img
Chapter 28 Scene XXVIII img
Chapter 29 Scene XXIX - A Celebration to Honour. img
Chapter 30 Scene XXX img
Chapter 31 Scene XXXI img
Chapter 32 Scene XXXII img
Chapter 33 Scene XXXIII img
Chapter 34 Scene XXXIV img
Chapter 35 Scene XXXV img
Chapter 36 Scene XXXVI img
Chapter 37 Scene XXXVII img
Chapter 38 Scene XXXVIII img
Chapter 39 Scene XXXIX img
Chapter 40 Scene XL img
Chapter 41 Scene XLI - Leisurable Morning. img
Chapter 42 Scene XLII img
Chapter 43 Scene XLIII img
Chapter 44 Scene XLIV img
Chapter 45 Scene XLV img
Chapter 46 Scene XLVI img
Chapter 47 Scene XLVII img
Chapter 48 Scene XLVIII - Visit to the Primitive Ones. img
Chapter 49 Scene XLIX img
Chapter 50 Scene L img
Chapter 51 Scene LI img
Chapter 52 Scene LII img
Chapter 53 Scene LIII img
Chapter 54 Scene LIV img
Chapter 55 Scene LV img
Chapter 56 Scene LVI img
Chapter 57 Scene LVII img
Chapter 58 Scene LVIII img
Chapter 59 Scene LIX img
Chapter 60 Scene LX img
Chapter 61 Scene LXI - Respect for the Wife. img
Chapter 62 Scene LXII img
Chapter 63 Chapter LXIII img
Chapter 64 Scene LXIV img
Chapter 65 Scene LXV img
Chapter 66 Scene LXVI - Unbearable wait. img
Chapter 67 Scene LXVII img
Chapter 68 Scene LXVIII img
Chapter 69 Scene LXIX - Why is it img
Chapter 70 Scene LXX img
Chapter 71 Scene LXXI - Spoken Summon. img
Chapter 72 Scene LXXII img
Chapter 73 Scene LXXIII img
Chapter 74 Scene LXXIV img
Chapter 75 Scene LXXV img
Chapter 76 Scene LXXVI img
Chapter 77 Scene LXXVII img
Chapter 78 Scene LXXVIII img
Chapter 79 Scene LXXIX img
Chapter 80 Scene LXXX img
Chapter 81 Scene LXXXI img
Chapter 82 Scene LXXXII - Harsh path of a Savage Barbarian. img
Chapter 83 Scene LXXXIII img
Chapter 84 Scene LXXXIV img
Chapter 85 Scene LXXXV img
Chapter 86 Scene LXXXVI - Will the wait End. img
Chapter 87 Scene LXXXVII img
Chapter 88 Scene LXXXVIII img
Chapter 89 Scene LXXXIX - Sheets cannot Untangle. img
Chapter 90 Scene XC img
Chapter 91 Scene XCI img
Chapter 92 Scene XCII img
Chapter 93 Scene XCIII img
Chapter 94 Scene XCIV img
Chapter 95 Scene XCV img
Chapter 96 Scene XCVI - Unthought Feast. img
Chapter 97 Scene XCVII img
Chapter 98 Scene XCVIII img
Chapter 99 Scene XCIX img
Chapter 100 Scene C img
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Barbaric Spouse, Descry the Night's Lure

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Chapter 1 Scene I - Prologue.

"You are to leave this place at this very moment."

The Baron spouted in disinterest.

"... Pardon?... Leave...? Your Lordship??"

Ewelina questioned, baffled at the sudden order her stepfather welcomed her with at her true Father's bureau.

"... As I said. You are to leave immediately from this manor. A carriage has been arranged, it's already outside waiting for you."

"I do not–... Your Lordship, may you explain what this is about? Have I behaved improperly? I–I am... Where am I to go in that carriage???"

Tremorous to the news, the confused woman insisted to the indifferent man behind the desk who, displeased by her quivering inquiry, glared at her afraid figure that he had witnessed till sickness.

"Haaah... A hindrance until the end you are..." - Sighing to himself, he scowled annoyed at her very presence and mumbled in spite.

"..."

"You are leaving to do your duty! Leaving to your Spouse's Lands!... He demanded for you to be sent shortly to his fief... for a female is to be by her male's side."

"... Spouse...?" - Shocked, she repeated, pale in blue. - "... However, father– ah!!"

Bang!... Thud, thud...

"Tsk. Don't use that word! How many times do I have to strike you so you understand, Ewelina?! Lord! Refer to me as your Lord, disgusting waste!!"

The ink bottle reached her forehead, staining her curly yet light brown copper hair, as well as her already dirtied countenance along the clothes with the dark drops of the thick liquid that escaped in the blow.

"!!... I–..... I beg your pardon... Your Lordship..." - The almost unheard tremor of her voice answered nervously. Biting her lip. Clenching her wrist in fear and restrained pain after receiving the strike without daring to avoid it.

Regardless... the young woman braced herself to continue within tremor.

"... However... Y–Your Lordship... I– I have not.. I have not been wedded to anyone... Nei–neither was I informed of a proposal..."

"Why would you need to be informed of such things? You simply have to do as you are told!"

"!..."

"Hmph... At the very least, with this marriage, you have been useful to our House's finances. You are allowed to feel happy about that. Hah."

'No...How can this be?... The Barony has sold me to an unknown noble for wealth... what–... what am I to become... Mother...'

Helpless before her fate, Ewelina painfully shut her lids to an unavoidable future as she realised her present... Embarrassed to be facing such a destiny, and have to abide by it at her stepfather's orders.

"M–May I ask... Who my partner is?"

"The Archduke."

"?!?! M–Myr–" - Feeling faint, the woman stuttered after hearing the man's Title.

"Archduke Myrkzver. Which else if not him?" - The distasteful in-law smirked at her grief. - "Since no other Family had an inkling to give their daughters to that man, I figured since it's you... I could gain a lot from this deal, you see?"

"....."

Observing her shocked stance a few steps before him, the man scoffed at her pathetic appearance.

Old scourers as clothes were all she possessed. Pitiful and displeasing to his eyes, the child he accepted to keep after her mother died out of public pretence, disgusted the man with no mercy for her future.

"If you are done asking insignificant details, get out... Take one of Dina's old dresses to wear. You have to look slightly decent at the very least once you arrive at that ogre's cave... Oh! Tell that maid friend of yours to take care of whatever you leave behind. I don't want your dirt to remain here... Although... Hah. Is there anything besides those rags you own, Ewelina?"

Contempt eyes and humiliating words were poured at her naturally.

The entertained man, whose vicious expression was well too known by the abandoned woman, caused her goosebumps along the hurtful emergence of tears that grabbed desperately onto her lids... Desperate not to fall since the man would only become more difficult for her to endure.

Silently, she stood there. Shivering. Feeling a stuffing void of helpless misery in her frail chest again.

A sensation she grew accustomed to enduring through the years without her bearer parent.

Nonetheless, all she knew was those limited lands her ancestors had lived in.

The old and modest castle she once ran through happily, was later to become the only place she could stay at as she had little to nothing besides it as the child of the woman she was born from.

In lands she would never survive without such a shelter when young and alone; as she was left once the rightful Baroness, her Mother, had met her demise. A mere ceiling to protect her under the vast unpredictable sky, her warm home... had become no more than a cold hideout from an unknown world.

No option but to endure a lower treatment in her own Lands... The young Ewelina had accepted, grown accustomed and resigned herself to the life the family left in her charge gave her.

"... Why are you standing there? Leave. Nothing is left for you here."

'...but... Dina... She said that man is a sure death for the woman to be wedded to him... I have heard her and the other refined Ladies pray not to encounter the man...'

The young woman contemplated as she shrank in her shoulders. Afraid for she still learned the hearsay from the step-sibling she came to have and from her stepfather's wife who enjoyed what should have been rightfully hers.

"....."

Ewelina was unwilling.

A woman who was deprived of learning what she had to... That only knew the tricks to lead the mischievous mice out of the kitchens and serve their family like any disposable servant to keep a roof over her head and survive in the difficult world she lived in...

How was she to survive a dangerous man, who she has never met, who she did not know how to serve and did not know how to properly manage the responsibilities to fall on her as his Spouse?

'... What if he kills me...?'

Her expression scowled in grief, standing still even after the Baron had demanded her dismissal.

"Ewelina."

"!!"

The strong grip on her chin by the old rusty hand decorated by her real Father's ring, hurt her skin as it took hold of her.

Shut eyes of the woman desperately opened at his grasp, terrified. For she found the chilling gaze he portrayed when enraged.

"Y–Your Lordship..."

The uneven white was appalling in those fading pupils that ever so intensely watched her with revulsion.

"... Are you deaf?... Has your stupidity robbed you of understanding words?"

"...!... No.. I–..."

"... Maybe you need a last warning? Just like your mother. You only understand once I make you do so, huh?"

"Ah!!" - Thrown to the hard ground, she regretted her wish to change his mind. - "No...! I– I understand... Please–!?!!! kugh! Cough!! wugh!!"

"... Fortunately... By the time you arrive there no trace should remain... 'Daughter'..."

            
            

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