Chapter 5: The Moon Threads
"My Lord..."
Kenric was about to leave the room when he was once again stopped by Annalise who seemed a little flustered as she looked back at him with hesitation.
"What is it?" He asked while making sure to keep his voice gentle. He wasn’t really tired considering he wasn’t a mortal who needed rest to keep his body working properly, but he really didn’t want to spend more time in her company.
The image of Annalise that he and the other Lords had pictured in their minds was nothing like the one standing in front of him. She was way more beautiful than he could have ever imagined. The fact that his fingers kept itching to touch her hair again was already bad enough.
They all came to the conclusion that she would be a spoiled rich lady considering she was the only daughter of the Grand Duke of the Seelie Realm and also the youngest Princess who had been spending her life in luxury.
Someone like her who was used to living in a grand mansion with dozens of servants catering to her all the time, would not have been able to survive in the Cursed Castle for even a single day.
They were actually surprised that the King and the Grand Duke offered her hand in marriage even in the first place, but it was probably because they were really in need of help. The danger lurking in the shadows of the Seelie Realm was not something common or small, and it seemed like the King had finally realized it.
That’s why the three of them thought that it was probably the King and her family who pressured Annalise to marry them and the woman would throw tantrums once she appeared at the Cursed Castle, taking out her anger and hostility towards them for ruining her life.
The three of them, in general, didn’t have a good impression of women, whether mortals or the ones from their own race. Before shutting themselves in the Cursed Castle, they had seen a fair share of the darkness, cruelty, greed, and lust that the women hid behind their beautiful and meek facade.
The three of them needed their brides probably more than the Seelie Realm needed their help to save itself. And since the three of them weren’t looking forward to handling three women in the same house, they decided to marry a single woman and accept her as their wife.
Before they left their realm, the Royal Seer told them to wait till the moment they would receive an offer for marriage, and once the offer arrived they needed to grab it. And the offer finally arrived after a long wait of Five hundred years - from the Grand Duke and the King of Seelie Realm.