I Became My Mate's Concubine

EN/ LANA

from Scarletmoon pack, amazing cuisines, and gossip from people who looked at me curiously from a distance, examining me as though I was a newly discovered rare speci

you here with me. I hope we get along well enou

ling pricked up my spine. I wasn't sure I still believed in true love after what I had been through, but I do not believe in having to raise my childr

es met mine before th

respond?" Sophie res

make me look like I

r children become the best of friends

ine. The walls echoed with laughter I didn't trust and toasts I didn't believe. I sat b

e music

like a blade from its sheath. Violins followed, high and eerie, almost mournful, or maybe it was how I felt deep down. Benea

t announced

sto

t I would follow, and I did. He turned back a

t. I was here to seduce him, make him fall for me, make him love me, and I was already doing a terrible job. My only opt

aiming something. His other hand took mine, and though his grip was controlled and steady, one would think he desired me, but o

gan t

h no hesitation. He stepped forward, and I stepped back. We turned, rotated, and spun in elegant circles that felt more like a chess game than a dance.

re silent, devoid of a message. Mine were aching; I tried to mask it. I did my best to be immune to hi

hile the cello hummed beneath the sound of the violins in blissful rhythms,

. She could not stand to see us together. I wanted to taunt her, let her know that

nostrils gently flared, his eyes looked at me differently. Did he like it? Or was he

stayed still, hold

him in a fervent enamor of desire for me, but I came to

on. Most faked it, and many pretended to like it. One, how

o the night with my mother

st wear it. The moment he sees you in it, I know he will cav

the tip of my tongue as I spoke. She was

ting for me

asn't mine; he was Deva's, yet I could only imagine her having to go through all this for a family that hated her and belittled her always. "You must m

think I am going to disrespect

them. "How do you think I have survived

ut also at the realization that she had Deva for

al family. It was