The wedding ceremony in the duke's castle was not at all bright, warm, and cheerful as the day that Sophie married Nicholas and lived happily with him.
On the contrary, it didn't even feel like a wedding at all because of how Duke Romanov treated it. Instead, Duke Romanov and Sophie soon returned to his study and Leland presented her with the marriage certificate.
He said, "I will have you sign this parchment and then the two of us will consummate the wedding and then return things to proper as they used to be."
"Duke Romanov, do you not need the marriage certificate that I have with my husband?" Sophie asked with a certain croak in her voice. She didn't want to imagine that everything would be rendered null and void.
It pained her to even think that her marriage certificate would now amount to nothing after Sophie married the duke.
