Beast King'S Crippled Mate

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.

feet? Uhm, or maybe I should cook in your palace? I-I can cook.

her own

had outgrown many of her old dresses, so she was given torn-up dresses from

was enough for the King of the Beast, but she guessed not, since Aria was

Gale began to frown.

just another trick she was taught to get

very effective. He found her adorable, but she was obviously faking it. A princess

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

this woman to also have the same

repeated as he leaned closer until she could feel his warm breath tickling her lips. "I've got my eyes on

she was so ugly and smelled like rats. Thus, she had always kept her head lowered to avoid

was afraid that her new husband would be angry once he smelled

on his face slowly dissipated, and he asked, "Why are

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

quiet for a while before asking,

cold and serious as if all the warm words that came out of his mouth before were just

felt the suffocating aura coming from her husband.

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

horse suddenly neighed and

Swan. You are terrified of me, right?

voice was stuck in her throat. It was so difficult to

coachman at the front suddenly jumped to

and saw the coachman with ferret ears. His face was 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,

the princess, who looked like she was about to faint as well,

back at Swan, and his body tensed. He took a