Chapter 5 - Chapter 5: Did I Terrify You?

Wife.

That word echoed in her mind as she struggled to find the true meaning of it.

Of course, she was not stupid enough not to know about marriage in general. Her biological father, the late King Tyrion's marriage with Queen Anastasia wasn't the ideal one, but she got the gist of it.

However, she didn't know what would happen once she became a wife to a beastman, especially when that beastman was the King with the blood of war in his hands.

Queen Mother had repeatedly told her that she would die at the hands of the beast. She would get chewed until no bone was left, and nobody would remember her.

She found it terrifying at first, but she had been imprisoned, tormented, and hurt her whole life, so it took her only a night to accept her fate.

Death is better than torment.

That was the miraculous sentence that she repeated last night.

She stared at Gale, wanting to read his emotion. She expected him to be terrifying in person because he first leaped into the palace ground as a giant black wolf with red eyes at night.

He was so terrifying that Swan thought he would destroy the castle.

Now that he was in a human form, he looked very attractive and masculine. He reminded her of that kind knight who helped her once when she was being beaten by the servants.

She failed to see any hostility from Gale, and he didn't seem annoyed by her presence.

She got curious about his eyes but dared not to ask further as she knew there must be a reason why he had his eyes covered.

"Don't just stare at me. Tell me what you have in mind," Gale said.

understand what I should do now that I have been married off to you. S-Should I wash your feet? Uhm, or maybe I should

never had any help in her life. So she washed her own laundry, cooked on her own in the kitchen, and also stitched all

outgrown many of her old dresses, so she was given torn-up dresses from the maids and made her own

King of the Beast, but she

Gale began to frown.

just another trick she was taught

faking it. A princess like her would've gotten

called him an uncultured savage because his beastmen kingdom wasn't as sophisticated and

this woman to also have the

told you. Don't play tricks on me, Princess Swan. There's no point in trying to get my attention since you are already my wife," Gale repeated as he leaned closer until she could feel his warm breath tickling her lips. "I've got my eyes on

times that she was so ugly and smelled

would be angry once he smelled

turned deeper, the thin smile on his face slowly

as she was scared of being too disgusting for her new

went quiet for a while before asking,

all the warm words that came out of his mouth before were

when she felt the suffocating aura coming from her husband. She said nothing, fearing that she would anger him even

carriage was getting thinner, and it had become difficult for Swan to breathe until her face started to get

suddenly neighed and

me, Princess Swan. You are terrified of me, right? Does

stuck in her

coachman at the front suddenly jumped to the side and knocked on

ears. His face was red, just like Swan. His chest heaved up and

the princess, who looked like she was about to faint as well, and pointed it out.

body tensed. He took a deep breath, and the air

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