My Fiancée Hates Me

[The Past]

"Erik, I am going to the northern border for a bit," I told him as I began packing.

Erik pulled me by my arm into his lap.

"Whatever you can do, you can stay with me."

There it is... Erik is being needy again.

I touched his cheek with my hand.

"You have become King... You are in a position where you must not leave from your tower is what I should say," I said as I pulled his cheeks. "You have been sneaking out here and there..."

"Ow... how did you find out?"

"I know that you have been sneaking out with the number of books piling in our bedroom. Most of them are not even about law or medicine. That means that you have been obtaining these books outside of the Royal Library," I said as I pointed towards the unorganized pile of books.

A few maids would come and clean only once a week since Erik hated people coming and going out of our room often.

"I have seen you taking a few books here and there as well..."

I flinched slightly.

He found out...

Erik was an avid reader much like me and Garett. It was a bit unexpected seeing as though he loves to skip out on his official duties.

"Who do you think has to cover for you?" I asked him. "Even for sneaking out, you leave for far too long...Please think about your wife as well."

Erik pulled me aside and threw me on the bed. I fell down onto my side and pulled my legs up slightly as I curled my body and looked at Erik. He crouched over me and encased me in his arms.

"You are absolutely right. I have been disregarding my wife for too long," he said as he picked up the bottom of my long skirt.

I did not mean like this!

I felt like panicking.

"W-Wait..."

"Why wait? We are already married, Ari," he said as his hands ran under my shirt.

This might be a bit bad. Erik has had a bad case with overdoing things. If I let things go on like this, I will be bedridden and be forced to move my plans back a day.

He suddenly kissed my neck.

"...Erik, I really can't today," I said in a not so convincing voice.

I was suddenly pinched on my sides.

"You have gone soft..."

How dare he?

I grabbed the closest pillow I could and began smacking Erik as much as I could and left him as a decrepit corpse on our bed.

I had begun a sedimentary lifestyle with Erik's increasing truancy. I had disregarded my strict diet and exercise regime.

I was not particularly fat, but it is discerning if Erik is able to grab my sides and tell me that I have grown soft...The royalty life is a very scary thing.

I barged into the maids' lounge.

"Your Highness!"

I suddenly felt oncoming tears.

I was quickly surrounded by my worried maids.

"What is wrong, Your Highness?" a maid asked.

"...I need...I need to diet," I said as I began wiping my tears with my wrists. "His Highness grabbed my love handles."

My hands were suddenly clasped by the younger maids.

"Say no more," a maid told me.

"For honor! For Arundel! For the best body!" the maids said in unison.

I cannot let this go on before I head off on official business.

on a strict diet by the maids and went intense training that was even more brutal than Knight training in

body back in shape is very

maid said as she measured me.

helped me get back

me for leaving him alone while I went on my diet. He

before

Highness is such

my

Highness, Queen Arielle," Commander Darian

commander seemed to shake slightly in my

is frightening the Commander," my

still

to put back on

your

show you around, Your

people that are less busy with their work to show me around. There is no need for the Commander

back

are not as busy around here as the

be as smooth then,"

taken back by my presence. I am a

"Of course..."

response was

look at the training of the

as he brought me to

brought to an open

the tools they were

a lot of

from the Academy, while most come from small surrounding villages with little education. Over here, we accept everyone. We could use all the

the training

handed me a written list of their

by them. They mostly train

one to oversee their

"There is someone..."

a man sitting under an umbrella who seemed to

"How comfortable looking..."

son of Marquis Pillar...It is difficult for even me

a sheet of paper and a pen. I quickly wrote

the Knights in the capital. I expect

Your Highness," he said as he accepted the

have thought that I would meet with a bit of resistance because I was a woman. My position as Queen and my high birth must have

the corner of my eye, I saw a familiar person with long black hair tied into a long low ponytail. He looked

"Garett?"

"Arielle?"

my excitement from meeting an old

acquainted with Garett?"

together at the Academy," I

"That's right," Garett said.

Highness about a year ago,"

Family, he

Your Highness," Garett said with a solemn

'Your Highness'...

am a Queen

become

more of an assistant of

well as his hands. Honestly, he is a bit too good for here,"

will be working together for a few days," I said with a smile. "I look forward to

was soon seen to my room by

seem a bit different,"

"Do I?"

were a bit unapproachable during our Academy

much as I used to. I say

way?" I asked

become much more beautiful," he said as he stopped before my room. "My job ends here. I

"Yes..."

scared me a

Garett can say sweet

back to my room and heard a rustling sound coming from my

have a bad feeling about

pulled on my sheets and saw that my husband was lying sound asleep in my

after me...I thought it was