Bump
"Ow!", a young girl exclaimed, blinking her eyes rapidly to ward of the flare of the sun. "Where am I?", she thought as she looked at the unfamiliar walls around her.
Bump!
It was then that she realized that whatever she was in was moving. She tried getting up from the position she was lying in only to discover her hands firmly tied behind her. "Okay, what the hell is going on here?" She said as she tried to undo the restraints.
Bump!
This time she was propelled backwards by the force of the moving contraption and suddenly she had a mind splitting headache a long with a torrent of unfamiliar memories.
Taken aback she continued to lie down trying to process whatever that had been. Then, she began to laugh,"You've got to be kidding me,the one time I decide to take a nap during work hours this happens! " she laughed in a condescending manner.
She, Annalise Foster, a proud CEO in her own right , had been reborn! Talk about absurd! A notion that she had thought ridiculous. This was something that was likely to her best friend who was so obsessed with the world of novels.
Unfortunately for her this was her life as it stands. Taking a moment she processed the memories that flooded her mind. She was currently in the body of the eldest daughter of the Lord Sterling ;Duke of Canterbury; Amber Reign.
She did not share the same surname as her father rather taking her mother's surname according to the tradition of her mother's family.
Unfortunately this was not looked on kindly by the duke thus when her mother died in an unfortunate accident when she was just twelve summers she was thrown into a boarding school meant for the 'refinement' of young ladies. It was more of a place where nobles dumped children that they deemed unworthy of attention.
According to Amber's memories she was called back home as was tradition when one came off age to attend her debutante ball. But what her was no debut,but a carriage with all of her belongings packed ,a dress,a sealed letter and a signed marriage certificate.
Now you might think why didn't she stand up for herself. Well she did only to get drugged, hands tied and put in a carriage to the neighboring kingdom. Unfortunately her supposed family miscalculated the drug and she died of an overdose.
"Hah, what a messed up situation", she scoffed. She who had not even dated in her past life suddenly had a husband. If what she remembered from her brief time in law school
that once the marriage certificate had been signed by both parties then they were deemed as a married couple.
Picking up the purse on the opposite seat she opened it and took out a marraige certificate that had her crude thumbprint and that of her supposed husband. Putting down the certificate she picked up the sealed letter, opened it up and began to read its content.
To the House of Ashton,
Lord Reign,
It is with great joy that I , the husband of the late Duchess of Canterbury; Lady Anastasia Reign humbly send off the heir of house reign Amber Reign to take up the mantle that was left to her by her mother.
It with pride that I also announce that she is wed to one Lord Cheslyn; Grand Duke of Lancroft.
She is wed to him with the intent of maintaining peace between our two kingdoms. I sincerely hope you do us the honor of presenting her to tthe gates of the Lunaris estate on our behalf.
Thank you greatly for your chivalry.
Yours Sincerely,
Lord Maxon Sterling;
Duke of Canterbury.
Quite a simple letter some might think. A family doing their duty to the crown by presenting their eldest daughter to foster a peace treaty between two rivaling empires. Surely to the ton they'd be painted as the most noble house in the realm, only that was not the case.
With the descendants and of the Ashton Estate being her grandfather and herself it was no secret that the Reign family was deteriorating, not only that it was rumored that the Grand Duke of Lancroft was a monster; a cruel ,heartless beast. He was a terror on the battlefield, tearing through the enemy ranks like they were made out of butter.
As the cousin of the emperor of Silvandell he was next in line to the throne provided that the current emperor had no heirs yet because of his cruel nature and the distant location of the Lancroft estate no family was willing to send their child to the devil.
But the Sterling family eager to be rid of the girl they deemed an anomaly and gain favour with the crown unhesitatingly pawned their daughter to the devil.
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' Let's get everything thing straight, I am Amber Reign eighteen years …err summers, eldest daughter of Lord Canterbury born to his first wife and a thorn in the side of my father.'
' Next will be this mysterious husband of mine, according to Ambers memories he's hardly seen in public and when he is , he's always in a mask. Ugh! what a complicated man.'
'It seems like my mother's family, well Amber's mother, is in a bit of a deep end. But from what I can recall it seems like they were once a revered family. So what happened? Could it be because they are situated in the middle of Silvandell and Eratone that I was offered as a peace offering. It looks like the Reign family was more of a neutral family between the two empires, with half the estate in Silvandell and the other in Eratone.'
"This is all a mess!, whoever you are in charge of this transmigration thingy, you could have at least given me a heads up! I could have had a good meal before you dumped me in this place!"
"Um Lady Reign , is everything okay?, there are some strange sounds coming from the carriage"
"Great! Now they think I'm mad. Just freaking great!"