How to Get My Husband on My Side

Chapter 1

 

“I’ve finally found a worthy groom for you, darling,” announced Father, as he wiped off his lips with a napkin.

 

Laying on the knees of my oldest brother Cesare, I felt the urge to run back to my bedroom and throw up all the food I’d just eaten.

 

My second brother Enzo, who had been busily chowing down on an awfully smelly quenelle, slammed his fork down and cried out in protest.

 

“Not again! Father, how many times has it been already?”

 

“Enzo.”

 

“It hasn’t even been three months since her last engagement was called off! Regardless of what our family would gain from this marriage, shouldn’t you at least try to consider her feelings?”

 

“What a surprise to see you side with your little sister. Then would you rather battle the barbarians yourself instead of accepting Britannia’s support?”

 

“What are you talking about? Those savage barbarians up north wouldn’t stand a chance against the likes of me, the greatest, most noble soldier to ha—”

 

“Shut your trap, boy.”

 

The great noble soldier took the rest of the quenelle on his plate and shoved it into his mouth, aggressively chewing in protest.

 

The marriage proposal wasn’t any surprise to me though. I knew that it would come sooner or later.

 

“Who is it, Father?”, I asked cheerfully.

 

My father, who had been staring disapprovingly at Enzo, looked back my way and smiled.

 

“He’s Britannia’s hero. The king’s beloved nephew and famous knight of the South. He’s very handsome, I’m sure you’ll like him.”

 

“What! Father, do you know how bad his reputation is?!”

 

“Boy, was I talking to you?”

 

Enzo became quiet again.

 

of them had any idea that this handsome knight would one day massacre their entire family. Oh poor, wretched creatures

 

“Ruby?”

 

again. This time his long fingers groped the back of my head. I shuddered in revulsion. It

 

shifted my gaze to Enzo who was frowning discontentedly, and then to Lady Julia and my father beside her, both seated upright,

 

Father. I’m grateful that I can at least be of some service to you

 

his lips into a rare gentle smile and pressed them up against the

 

as always, our sweet

 

really

 

more pressing matters to attend to than throwing up. After all, the handsome knight of the

 

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the Renaissance Era, and as a character in a novel that I’d read long ago, and, to make matters worse, forced to survive in an environment that was just as vile as my previous life, would I still have

 

going to be reincarnated as a character in this novel,

 

“Ugh!”

 

up silently that

 

as people call it nowadays, an eating disorder. Before I became Rudbeckia de Borgia—I mean before I died—I was an adopted daughter of an upper-class family in Spain. I guess you could say I was a child of

 

my adoptive siblings, I attended a prestigious private school in

 

the kids around me was sometime around 4th grade, when a boy in my class laughed at me while pulling back his eyes. At first I didn’t understand what it meant, so I just laughed along with

 

time I grew numb to the racism that I faced at school, but as for my life at home, despite the sophisticated, welcoming facade of my adoptive family, there was always an unspoken rule that I

 

addiction. The only one in my adoptive

 

smallest bit of shame to my family or offended them in the slightest, there was hell to

 

l passed away. But when I looked in the mirror, instead of seeing my face, there was a beautiful western girl staring

 

character in the fantasy

 

the tale of a vile, corrupt pope who abused his power to subjugate others. It was a story about the countries of

 

the northern Romagna region of Italy, and ‘Holy Grail’ was a metaphor for

 

to die no less than at the hands

 

brother, in an attempt to gain even more political influence, were hellbent on marrying off Rudbeckia, and after three unsuccessful engagements and another last minute cancellation, she ended up being married off to Izek van

 

and austere as Izek would lose his mind and decide to murder his wife’s entire

 

of Rudbeckia, who’d

 

Rudbeckia killing his little sister, it seems like Izek just got fed up

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