My Fiancée Hates Me

[Erik's Perspective of the Past]

At the gates outside of the fortress, I alerted that Garett's head along with the rest of the hostages were placed gruesomely on tall wooden poles the next day.

I could not believe that The Balik Empire would just kill off a member of the Royal Family within less than a few days of captivity, or did Garett refuse to reveal his identity to stop any possible exchanges from happening?

More importantly, I felt a deep sadness from losing my cousin who was also my friend...

I had asked that everyone stop Arielle from seeing the scene, but it was all too late when I heard her wailing cries.

Arielle was approaching the heads posted on the wooden poles. Several people tried to stop her from approaching the scene.

It was forbidden for the Queen of Arundel to touch the dead as it spelled the curse for a miserable death for her in the future.

She kept pressing forward until her two feet were in front of Garett's head. At that point, it was already too late. No one could say anything even when she removed Garett's head from the marker and held his head close her chest. The blood stained her lavender dress from head to toe. She fell to her knees and cried for a long time.

Even though she did not cry at her mother's funeral, she cried for him...

It was then that I understood Arielle's feelings for the very first time. She held a deep place for Garett in her heart, and I was the person who sent him to his death.

Later, Arielle closed herself in her room without any contact to the outside world for three days. In the meantime, I gathered the people behind her kidnapping and the ones responsible for handing Garett over to enemy territory. I brought them into the holding cells for questioning. It was the least that I could do for Arielle who was mourning.

As I was leaving the holding cell after getting a few good punches in at Marquis Pillar's son, I was suddenly approached by Arielle's Maid.

"Lady Arielle has gone missing from her room!" her Maid screamed.

I immediately called for all of the Guards to begin a search party for Arielle. I ran around desperately looking for Arielle like a madman as well. She seemed nowhere to be found as if she had disappeared in thin air.

a bad feeling and followed it back to the dungeon that happened to be unguarded and open

something happened to

I saw Arielle standing in front of Marquis Pillar's son who was still hung up on a stake as I had left him. Arielle turned slightly towards me and revealed her figure splashed in blood all over her white

as I

am fine, Erik," she

been since I last saw her

there was a bloody dagger

"Arielle, what did you..."

am in the middle of something," she said as she turned back to

her other hand. It was then that I realized Marquis Pillar's

"...Did you do this?"

Such a horrible scene...

it from behind, it is easy to rip off. However, I did use the dagger to

dropped the dagger by her side and fell to her knees as she

I brought her to my chest and hugged

you do such

felt, but I still feel just as awful as I did before," Arielle said as she clutched my clothes and cried into my

Garett away in the first place. If anyone, I am the person Arielle should blame the most, but I will continue taking care of you because I love you

war campaigns, purging corrupt Nobles in Arundel,

of times we met in a week could be counted on one hand. Even most of those meetings consisted of signing off on important documents and not even lasting

Arielle's demands, gathered and tried to complain that she was not doing her duties. I knew that she had well overdone her duties if anything. Still, I tried to inquire about what she had not been doing. All they could say was that she had not dutifully given me

that Arielle and I would rather not bring a child into the world during these difficult times. However, my Advisors said that they would force a political bride on me if

I could not be angrier that those pesky Nobles chose to bring up a dead man's name just to besmirch Arielle's reputation. I could

desk about the enlistment officers, I saw Arielle's name on the