affair, one in which my

n Gedeon and the Central Kingdom gave them the perfect excuse to not show up. My father got a hefty

a cow bein

red when the man beside me handed me a knife. There were dazzling blue jewels embedded in the handle of the knife a

ould be great,” t

ne ones and I swallowed knowing that

he representative of the groom whispered fro

oath,” I murm

, underestimating the knife. Blood spilt everywhere. The man beside me sucked his teeth. Someone

rtificate with my blood fresh on it and shoved it into his pocket.

d my hand back at once. He stopped so abruptly and with so much annoyance that I to

He all but s

sband?” I asked. His expression closed off. He look

f

They were decorated in an assortment of rubies and diamonds from their head to their ankles. One of them wore a luxurious velvet dre

said, her eyes sparkling as she

midway as they made to cover my body. She cro

takes in a human bride,” she said and I felt a

third kingdom to be annexed. Th

her eyes an enchanting blue with a beauty mole underneath her left eye. Her high-bridged nose was up in the air, giving her a permanently haughty look. She had been wi

fighting down the tremor in my voi

nd, not even a respectable daughter.

than the others, we did not have any connections with the other kingd

she raised a hand to me. Her hands were decorated like a new bride, beautiful henna art and shi

hand. People were watching. The handful of people who had come to witness my joke of a w

served for servants c

looked around

ce of my husband interv

nt grin. “Madam Cynthia, please see to it that there is no disturbance between

n, the first wife, asked, looking me up a

ies and no husband to greet me. Coming here, I had a lot of though

ed to the first wife. He

thinnest hips, they sent her with no serv

How can a woman bear any children with such narrow hips?” Her gaze focused o

gon?” Cynthia responded wit

will only irritate my dragon,” Meredith said, her ton

cks as they exited the hall. “Are you coming or not!?”

ried after them, blendin

dith said once we got outside.

three dragons but one caught my eye. A dragon the size of a house with fiery re

p a surprised scream as the dragon raised a huge paw an

Meredith snorted. “We a

eir dragons and set

e of d

humans, we were now a region of humans with few shifters.

d beast whose eyes were focused on me with glaring a

e I had, excited yet terrified. The beast let out an annoyed growl t

ddle and hoisted myself onto the dra

aused. I did not have time to ponder if dragons understood humans so well as I gat

my first time,” I said and

lly, launched into the air and in l

m the way the women waiting for me smiled that they had done this, made me get o

hat I was no