Twice Reborn: The Forsaken Bride's Divine Fate

Heat

and dust filling my lungs. Richard Daniel, the patriarch of the f

polished wood was the only sound in the room. It wa

, leaving no room for argument. "You will take her pl

ight to marry the man I truly loved, only to be forced into taking a dying stranger's hand. That sheer desperation had driven me to throw myself into the icy river just

oken to the point of suffocation. But having died twice now, I was no longer chained b

al magic where I walked the path of divine divination. I was on the verge of ascending as an immortal se

d, merely two days had passed in this world. I had been pulled from the freezing

reading fate and weaving divinations. Rebuilding my power from scratch here would be like moving mountains with my bare hands; my very first

absolute truth: absolute personal stren

own, locking it away

a thin veneer of warmth over cold steel. "Clara, this is your duty.

ony to soothe the great man's passing. He is already dying. Once it is over,

n, no concern. I saw only the cold assessment one gives a tool

pushing down the bitte

oice was calm, steady,

of persuasion dying on his lips. He had prepared for tears

ce, quickly followed by contempt. She's

cutting through his thoug

warmth vanished. "A condition? You ar

each word precise and sharp. "From the moment I am married, I am no longer your ad

sound echoing like a gunshot in the quiet study. He shot to hi

e? Who do you

mark that marred my right cheek. "Without the Daniel name, you are nothing.

n't step back. I let h

voice unwavering. "Otherwise, I

rsh laugh escaped his lips.

ty air. "I am not threatening you, Lord Patriarch," I

w book on his shelf, then return

take her place in a marriage ceremony with a member of the r

A flicker of understanding-an

inued, my tone flat and factual. "It is a deception against the Hi

et of ice water. The rage drained from

cking of the grandfather clock, counti

a sliver of... fear. He had never imagined that the quiet, o

l family, Camilla's future-it was all on the line.

round out the words through clenche

t watched him, my sile

ight gone out of him. He waved a dismissive

ill be here tomorrow. But remember this. Once you wa

ouched my lips. I gave a slig

time I would eve

ch step feeling lighter than the last,

s doorknob when I stopp

," I said, adding my sec