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.

you. S-Should I wash your feet? Uhm, or maybe I should cook in your palace? I-I can cook. I can wash. I-I can

had any help in her life. So she washed her own laundry, cooked on her

of her old dresses, so she was given torn-up dresses

King of the Beast, but she guessed not, since

Gale began to frown.

if this was just another trick

but she was obviously faking it. A princess like her would've gotten the best in everything,

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

this woman to also have

my wife," Gale repeated as he leaned closer until she could feel his warm breath tickling

avoided him by turning her head away immediately. She had been told by Aria many times that she was so ugly and smelled like rats. Thus, she

new husband would be angry

frown turned deeper, the thin smile on his face slowly dissipated, and he asked, "Why

I'm sorry, Gale..." Swan replied as she

for a while before asking, "Did I terrify

tone was cold and serious as if all the warm words that

the suffocating aura coming from her husband. She

the carriage was getting thinner, and it had become difficult for Swan

and stopped on its

terrified of me, right?

tried to speak, but her voice was stuck in her throat. It was so difficult to breathe that she began

jumped to the side and knocked

red, just like Swan. His chest heaved up and down as he tried his best to speak, "Y-Your Majesty, please control your emotions. It's hard to breathe, and the horse

was about to faint as well, and

at Swan, and his body tensed. He took a deep breath, and the air around them slowly

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