Cassey started at the six feet man with a trance. His dark blue phoenix eyes were intimidating yet entancing like before. His dusty golden hair falling over his face covering half of his brooding face, his sharp nose that rose high and his thin pale lips which had a cold smirk on them.
His broad shoulders give him an intimidating effect, with strong arms that could crush a rock with bare hands but surprisingly trim waist and lean hips with a V figure. She had always marveled at him.
He was the most desirable man in the higher society, son of the duke who held the strongest power in the empire that even the emperor had to respect him.
That strong man was her… husband! She had never understood what he had seen in her when she married him. Not only was he handsome, powerful, rich but was also a higher noble. But she.. She was a commoner with nothing spectacular under her belt. He had looks that could stop the breath of any woman while she was just an average Jane you could find in any house.
He was the leader of the second order of knights but She was not a knight, she did not know how to fight at all. She was not a brilliant woman, when he had studied from the best academy of the empire. She was only taught basic reading by him. Commoners did not have the privilege to study since education is expensive and rare. But he had made sure that she could read books, write letters and do calculations so that she could handle the post of the duchess and others would not make jokes of her.
He was rich since he had the position of the duke while she was a commoner with not even a house under her name. She had nothing remarkable that she could ever consider herself as his equal.
Yet he loved her, proposed to her and married her. In those two years of marriage He had nothing but consideration towards her. He had cherished her and loved her and she had thanked God everyday for meeting him. But… It ended the day he decided to abandon her.. Only that day, she had realized that fairy tales did not exist in real life.
"So you do not need to worry about it." the voice did not sound like Damien's. It was neither sarcastic nor snickering but had a calmness in it in spite of the dark eyes of the speaker. She closed her eyes and cherished it. It had been almost three years when she had heard the voice last and only she knew.. No matter how much she hated this man, his voice but how desperately she missed it.
She felt his hands holding her wrist, a strong grip that she could never be able to free herself, yet soft enough that it would not hurt at all.
He took her back to her bed and pushed her down in the sitting position.
"When can we leave?" This question was towards Damien who was smirking at Cassey.
"The physician said she needed bed rest but if you allow, we can leave this instant." Cassey bowed her head, she knew that they both would not listen to her but at the same time she did not want to see the man. Only god knows what kind of expression he would have after meeting her after three long years. Would he be desiring her? No! If he would have desired her, he would have never let her go.
Would he be despising her like Damien? But if that was the case, why was he looking for her in the first place? She fidgeted with her dress. Then why in the world was he looking for her.
No matter what the reason was.. She was not going to entertain it.
"I will not go with you." she announced after taking a long breath. "After you have left me, I have nothing to do with you." she reminded him. If he cared for her, he should not have thrown her out of his house.
She was not a fool to fall into the same trap again.
"Ha!" he hovered over her with that intimated look that she shrunk back on the bed until she realized what was doing and stood stronger and looked into his eyes but all she found was coldness and hatred as if he was looking at his enemy. The thought broke her but gave the strength to face him too.
"Do you think you still have a say in this? Do you still think that you are the duchess of Nyfire, the wife of Kalhums who would take your every order as their life? You are nothing but a greedy criminal who had been taken for her punishment. So, it would be better that you just lay there dead and do not dare to raise your head in front of me again." those eyes.. That had always looked at him with wonder and love was looking at her will all the hatred existed in the world.
The strong man who had vowed to protect her once was here too.. Ruin her this time.