About A Rational Marriage

“Even if you don’t remember, the sin doesn’t disappear, Leila. You killed my child.” For two years, the kingdoms of Strover and Gremors were embroiled in war. In order to solidify a truce, they sought to arrange a marriage pact. As a result, Blake Berman, a general from Strover, and Leila Edgestone, the former fiancée of the Crown Prince, were chosen as sacrifices to this arrangement. “I thought it would be a formal marriage. I understood there would never be a need to spend the night together as a couple…” “Oh, did you think we wouldn’t share the bed?” Leila ended up marrying Blake after being falsely accused of embezzlement. From the start, it was a loveless union. She believed she would only have a superficial marriage, maintaining a formality without any emotional attachment. Blake even told her before the wedding that they would divorce after two years, making it seem unlikely that they’d ever truly live as a married couple. “Even if you refuse, you’re my wife, and we’re married.” But everything changed on their first night together when Blake, invoking the duties of a wife, violently claimed her. “Let’s truly become a couple this time.” Blake’s marriage to Leila wasn’t his first. Haunted by the memory of a love-less marriage that ended tragically, he came back from his previous life with unresolved questions and a thirst for revenge. What was the reason she had committed su*cide while pregnant with his child in that past life? Now, with questions that remain unanswered and a desire for vengeance, Blake draws closer to Leila once more…