The Beast's Bride

through her windows. She stood up from the piece

to begin preparing, it

ork

one as she joyfully gri

for her, of course, as she

e Day of

e mused, After all, the betrothed co

mple to find out who Deros, their god of love, had chosen to be their significant others. Their names would be taken down by th

lized that it was actually the local priest, Eris, who made that decision, usi

lowly make friends with the priest, bribe him even, so that he would let Gideon and h

d not any mortal man, but as his passion and love for Iliana grew, so did his fear that sh

be fruitless. He had worked too hard at

n the special ceremony, or at least, that they had been playing since s

of the happy yet terrified women washing their hair and faces, painting thei

18 two weeks

y, for she could not imagine herself getting married to any of the men in the to

e brown or black haired women in the town, she had blood r

witch or sorceress. She literally had to perform slave labour, still did in a way as she was paid way too little for the amount of work she performed on the town farm, for the townspeople to grudgingly accept her on the conditi

t. You can have your preda

urely, it couldn't possibly be her employer,

ly and gasped as she came fa

only men in the community who had come dan

his face as he menac

t married to