Chapter 13: Getting married to the empire’s enemy
Morning.
Lydia’s room, Statham estate.
Critic Arley, Critic-Ishire.
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Lydia stared at herself in the wooden decorated mirror and wondered how she had ended up in such a chaotic situation, she had been everything but rebellious or disobedient to her parent yet the minute they got a chance they threw her under the moving cart now she’s going down a free fall and she wonders if anybody can save her.
Lydia had always been made to stay inside the house because she was an unacceptable mistake, an abomination to her mother. Her noble-born family welcomed her still, a story she had heard so many times she could now envision it. How a slave had forced himself on her mother when the family took a trip to Critic-Ishelm.
An abomination in the empire of Critic-Ishire, A bastard in Critic Arley was uncommon as it was highly frowned upon by the society so her family hid her from outsiders limiting her to doing house chores with the employed and slaves. Aside from the verity that her room was also amongst the rooms for the girls of the house, the employed would have thought they were all employed.
"It won’t be that bad being married to the lord, he is a fine man" Her friend ’Mathilda’ who works in the Statham estate patronizes Lydia or at least tries to.
"How would you know that, you have never even seen him" She has and he indeed is a fine man, striking even but what about his inside?
"You’re right I haven’t but you have and we have to stay positive, everything will be well" Lydia rapidly fanned her face to prevent the tears from falling, everything will be alright she had heard this line from Mathilda ever since she could understand the words she speak and she’s not sure anything had ever changed for the best, instead it is for the worst now.
She is getting married to lord Theodore today by dawn and they were nothing alright about that, her life is officially over, it has been a whole bunch of misery since birth for Lydia but this is next level, she had 1 elder sister, and two younger, but when lord Theodore had been looking for a bride and no one had sent their daughter to the selection banquet but her family, if she could still call them that had sent her out to the devils mansion and her being the naïve young lady who was elated she could finally go out to not just anywhere but a banquet had jumped into the free falling carriage.