"I am your wife?"
Rosalia had not much reaction to her voice as she asked the man he took care of for the whole winter who is now accompanied by his knights. He left leaving a promise that he would be back. She certainly hoped he would be back but not as the emperor she wanted to divorce.
Rosalia is a princess from a neighboring country that was conquered by the tyrant emperor of Verdigris. Her mother was just a mere maid of the palace and so she did not have equal footing to her siblings. She was hidden away and through that, she became the only one to survive out of her twenty-one siblings. She was discovered in her chambers which seemed to be a servant's quarters and was dragged away. She only saw the emperor's black hair as he walked away together with his knights on the day that he slaughtered her whole family.
She was made to be a concubine but the emperor never showed his face to her. She then heard the rumor that he only cared about one woman who used to be his secretary. She heard a great deal about the woman. She was loved by the people and she was so capable that even she idolized her.
One day, an order came about the budget given to the concubines. It was almost nothing and so they were given a choice to leave on their own or stay. It was typical for the tyrant emperor who now wanted to get rid of his concubines to show the extent of love that he had for his empress. Out of his hundred concubines, only three people were left. She was given a house in the countryside that is in the middle of nowhere.
She survived by eating weeds around her place. One day, she strayed from her path and found some delicious-looking mushrooms. Her stomach growled as she reached for it and when she was about to bite on it, she received a strong slap that her ears were ringing. That is when she met Kirsh, a handsome and intelligent boy.
"Are you stupid? This mushroom is poisonous."
Stupid?
The boy with a sharp tongue looked at her with annoyance. He sighed and walked away. She found her footing and shook off the dirt from her tattered skirt and went looking for something else to eat. This time, she found a delicious-looking red berries. She was about to pick it up when she received a kick from her derriere.
The boy gave up and gave her his sandwich. From that day forward, he started coming to her house and taught her about how to forage for food and how to use plants for medicine. After he agreed to her request to stay one night due to a storm, she told him she could stay for as long as he wanted. Ever since then, the two of them started living together and a year passed by.
Her scrawny self began to change ever since the boy arrived. She enjoyed everything the boy made for her and it did not take a while for her to be plumpy. She began to have more energy to tend to the farm that the two of them made. Winter is approaching and they had more than enough stored.
One night, they were having a hearty meal when they heard wolves howling outside. They also heard gunshots from far away. She was the older one and so she took the rifle they had purchased not too long ago and waited at the door. They then heard a loud knock.
"Leave now or I will shoot!" She yelled out.
There was no response and they just heard a loud thud. She opened the door and saw a man sprawled on their entrance with blood soaking his shirt.
The man had a gunshot in his stomach but not so deep. They decided to help him and hid him. His pursuers came and asked about him but the intelligent boy was able to fend them off.
It began to snow heavily the following day and the man was still not waking up.
"Will he wake up soon?" She asked.
Kirsh approached and threw a wet towel on his face.
"If he wakes up, he wakes up. If he dies, he dies! Stop asking!"
Kirsh left and she gently wiped his face. She was not accustomed to seeing people but she had a strong feeling that that man was extremely attractive. He fits the descriptions she read in some romance books she was able to purchase upon begging Kirsch for days. For some reason, his black hair reminded her of the emperor but then black hair is a common trait in that country.
She fell asleep at his bedside and upon waking up, she finally saw his eyes. They were golden. She was completely mesmerized.
"Who are you?" He asked.
"Uh, uhm. Ro-Rosalie."
He smiled and she almost fainted.
"Thank you for saving me."
"Oh, uh... It wasn't just me. You should thank Kirsh instead."
Kirsh entered with a basket on his side filled with freshly baked bread.
"Get the soup."
"Oh right!"
She looked back and saw the man smiling at her. She felt her ears warm.
She did not know what he and Kirsh talked about when she left. The man said his name was Macklart but he did not say more. Kirsh told her that it was better not to know more and that he would leave after winter. She just thought that he was a wounded bird and once he was all patched up, he should be free to fly.
Kirsh cousin came begging for him to help his Uncle. They left for the next village and the weather started to become worse.
She was so worried about Kirsh and started drinking to calm her nerves together with Macklart. She began telling him about her life before and after meeting the handsome and intelligent boy excluding the story about her being an abandoned princess of a fallen kingdom and a concubine to the tyrant emperor. One thing led to another and she found herself waking up with Macklart sleeping soundly next to her. She was having a headache but she could recall what happened that night.
Macklart was just taking the bottle of wine from her hand when their eyes met and the next thing was they were kissing. He was able to remove her dress but he had to pause when he saw the bondage wrapped around her chest. She sobered up upon realizing that what she was hiding would be exposed but he did not allow her to escape. He was able to successfully untangle it before she could run away and what she was hiding was freed. As she ate well, she hoped she would get taller but her breast got bigger instead. Macklart took hold of her heavy melons and pinched on her elongated nipples.
"Their shape is so lewd." He said.
"No, I'm so embarrassed." She teared up.
He sucked on her nipple and she cried out. It was her first time feeling such sensations and it scared her but she did not want him to stop. She used to think her additional heavy flesh was useless but at that moment, her idea of them began to change.
"You are too sensitive." Macklart said and his tongue flicked on it and she shivered.
His hand went down further until it reached her core. The sound from it was so embarrassing that she pushed his chest but his finger found its way inside her and she cried out.
"So it's here huh?"
"Wait- aah!"
He found her sensitive area and teased it relentlessly.
"Wait! Some-thing is coming. Uhn!"
He smiled and his movement became faster and she came so hard for the first time in her life. She was in a daze when he pulled his hand back and showed her his hand covered with her juices and he licked his finger.
"It's sweet."
He began removing his clothes and she panicked upon seeing his pulsating rod.
It's huge! It won't fit inside!
She edged away but he caught her leg and pulled her closer.
"I'm sorry but I am at my limit."
His rod touched her entrance and she shut her eyes tightly when she felt it push her folds apart. It went further in widening her tight entrance, taking away her maidenhood.
There were beads of sweat on his forehead and his breathing was strained. For a moment she thought it was over but then he began moving in and out of her. Tears began to roll down her face with how intense his movements were. The pain started to fade away and it was replaced with pleasure. Her moans came out naturally and that seemed to have ignited something beastly inside him as he pounded on her mercilessly for the whole night.
Kirsh sent a letter that he should be back after the winter. She spent her days and nights with Macklart like animals in heat. When spring came, Macklart left with a promise that he would come back for her.
Kirsh came back and it was time for their two -eek camping trip to the top of the mountain to gather a precious herb that they would sell for a high price. She never dared to tell him what transpired between her and Macklart while he was away.
When they got back home, the house was burned down and she fell on her knees when suddenly, a mob came and arrested them. She heard that the emperor's men came looking for her and ordered to burn her house down. They were in the town prison when the knights of the emperor came and she was taken to a separate carriage. The carriage was a fancy one for a prisoner. She was taken to the palace where some maids helped her bathe and they dressed her up in fancy clothes.
She was escorted to the throne room and she kept her head down.
"I told you that I would come for you and you dared to escape!"
He sounded more hurt than angry.
"Forgive me, Your Highness."
She could not remember speaking to the emperor and telling her that he would come for her but just decided to grovel down his feet for mercy.
"Lift up your head."
She did as he ordered and her eyes widened to see the man she spent the previous winter draped in all fineries. He was angry and she could not understand why.
"You, you are the emperor?"
"Yes, and you shall be my empress."
She was confused thinking that he already had an empress and she did not want that position. She was contented in her life with Kirsh. She then remembered the house she and the boy managed to salvage that has now turned into ash.
"Forgive me your Highness but I must decline. I am not fit for the position as I am just a lowly foreign princess that no longer has anything to her name."
"And where will you go?"
"If it's not too much to ask then I would like to have the house you bestowed upon me to be built again. I understand as to why it was done but I have not done anything to warrant such punishment, I was simply on the task of gathering a precious herb as the first two weeks of spring is the only time it can be gathered."
The tyrant emperor was taken aback for a second before he gained his composure again.
"The house will be built but it does not change the fact that you are to be my empress."
"Am I to be empress simply for the fact that I have warmed your bed for the whole winter?"
"You are to be empress because there will be no one else to take your place."
It was then made clear that the rumors of him already having an empress were false.
"Will you love me and only me?"
The emperor wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her close.
"You only and no one else."
She jumped a little for her arms to cling to his neck and he lifted her for a warm embrace.