Chapter 319: When you get used to something good, it’s hard to let it go
Some of the older Chiefs gasped at the piece of information. "Sleeping in the same bed before they are wed?"
The way they looked at each other in shock made me feel like I was a celebrity caught in a scandal. Well...perhaps, for the morally strict children of nature, it was a scandal. I had never encountered the same concern from people in the demon realm, although...
It could also be because they didn’t have the guts to raise any concern to the Lord.
"Am I...not allowed to do that?" I tugged at Amarein’s sleeve and asked in a whisper.
"You shouldn’t, my dear," Amarein raised her hand and put it on my cheek, stroking it softly.
Why? What was the difference? It was just about making it official with a registry and a vow. Would it affect anything if I slept with him before that?
Well...I guess, normally, it was to prevent sex and pregnancy outside of marriage which would make the child’s status and last name questionable--just as Natha had told me.
But I wouldn’t be able to get pregnant with just sex so...
I took a deep breath to calm my mind. Even if I told them all of this, it would probably be counterproductive to our objective of seeking a conception method. So I could only exhale slowly in the end.
"A marriage is a sacred union, and you’re supposed to start it by tying your lives in a lifelong vow, before living together as one of its fulfillment," Amarein smiled and stroked my furrowed brows as if trying to unravel it. "If you preceded the process, it would lessen its meaning, don’t you think?"
Uhh...I didn’t have any rebuttal for that. In the first place, I didn’t even know the culture of couples here, aside from not letting others use nicknames aside from family members and very close friends.