Chapter 236: Caught in a web
"What more is there to say?" Loraven snapped, her voice louder than that of talking.
"You may have your fun, but nothing else will come of this. You will NEVER see him again, if you do.. you know what will happen." Queen Iolena sliced her hand across her body to make a point while glaring at Loraven. She then scoffed after reading Loraven’s hard expression. "Whether you bond with that human boy or not, this marriage will not fall through. Prince Theoden needs a wife, and he is WILLING to put up with your ways."
Bond?
The Queen looked Loraven up and down with distaste twisting her lips. "Be grateful, child."
This time it was Loraven to scoff. "Be grateful to be in a loveless marriage with a man known to have more than ten mistresses? Do you want me to be happy? Or am I just another piece on your chessboard?"
Queen Iolena waved her hand and looked out the window. "Happiness is a luxury in our world. You’ve been in his embrace for a few days, and your mind has gone to mush. How weak of you. I thought too well of you, it seems. It was either Prince Theoden of the wild fae or to send you to Gunnalf."
Loraven seemed to visibly pale at that. Like any of a royal or noble line, there was never much choice in the matter of marriage.
"Ohh, Gunnalf, now that is a man not to displease. I heard his last three wives were killed. The last, beheaded because she looked down on him." A woman’s low voice from behind Osian had him swirling around, eyes wide and heart sprinting at being caught spying on the Queen and princess of Lyvaria.
He stopped and eyed the woman before him. She looked like none he’d ever seen in the snow elf’s court. Was she part of the fae courtiers? She was pale skinned but, from certain lighting, revealed a soft glimmer of blue.
The woman also seemed to be half naked with ink running down one side of her, cropped navy-like hair and golden starlight eyes he could not look away from once she captured his own.
What was she doing walking around like that!?