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"You dare!" Victoria seemed to finally not be able to hold back anymore and tried to draw her sword from its sheath.
"Stop" She only stopped half way when Eden's soft voice rang out from the other side of Nolan.
"I'll do it." Eden's words barely above a whisper shattered the room making Nolan's blood freeze.
"E~Eden!" Nolan utterly shocked hearing his wife's acceptance and he felt as if the ground beneath him had been torn out.
"Y~you can't actuall~" He couldn't maintain composer as he spurned up from his throne only to be cut off.
"My love" Eden's voice was firm and she gave him a gentle look filled with love as her hand reached for his cheek.
"You said yourself that we need them" Nolan's trembled hearing his own words he had spoken yesterday as his hands clenched to his side.
"We can think of another~" He had never felt so helpless before as Eden's hand caressed his cheek gently.
"We don't have a choice" Eden spoke once more and Nolan could see both fear and resolve deep in her blue eyes.
"Eden~" Victoria spoke when Nolan when silent but was cut off by Daisy whose expression was somber.
"Do not dictate her actions Victoria" Daisy who always had a warming aura stared at her with blank eyes.
"…." Victoria fell silent as well while her eyes looked toward Eden and Nolan with a complicated gaze.
'I can't…' Nolan hadn't spoke a word yet as he stared at the floor in pure disbelief at what was happening.
'S~she's my wife' He didn't know what tending to the heavenly lord entitled but it was obviously something he couldn't subject the woman he loved to.
'….' Could he really let his beloved wife become the servant of another man.
'…But' Yet despite his anger and fury deep down he knew that without the protection from the heavenly clan the kingdom would eventually fall.
He never wanted to be king, To have the lives of thousands weighing on the decisions he made and yet where he was. Helplessness over took him as his teary eyes left the ground and met a pair of blue irises that were filled with unending love, He felt pathetic for even thinking about agreeing and felt like less of a man as he slowly nodded his head.
"If..that's your choice…" His voice was a whisper barely audible as he nodded slowly feeling shame and helplessness twisting his heart.
"So you accept?" Linus interrupted the somber moment with a delighted voice almost as if he didn't care about the situation.
"….Yes" Nolan glared over his shoulder before answering with a low voice full of rage that he didn't hide.
"I will send word to my lord" Linus smiled and bowed his head shallowly once more turning his back toward Nolan.
''It was the right choice for the kingdom" Nolan told himself but his heart whispered back in a grave tone.
'It was the worst one you could ever make'
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'Is this what you wanted mother?' Nolan thought as he gazed down at the city that was illuminated by the moonlight.
'For me to take the throne of the bastard you hated so much' He sighed deeply remembering his late mother he once thought loved him more than anything.
She was nothing more than the wife of a low class noble, That was until the former king had become infatuated with her beauty. Taken to the castle against her will Nolan's mother had been forced to become the king's concubine. Nine months later Nolan was born as the bastard second son of the king.
His mother raised Nolan meticulously telling him to keep his head down at all times, That such actions were for his own protection. Nolan only saw her true face when the king had grown sick from old age, When he had been forced to join the fight for the throne that he never wanted.
"My love" Nolan's complicated thoughts were interrupted by a soft voice that made him shiver in shame.
"Eden" His voice was low as he turned around to see his wife walking out onto the balcony.
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