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Iris Bellwether was her name. just like Lila had described, when telling her story, Lila suffered same. The pressure led her to marrying the first man that came to seek for her hand in marriage. The duke's son from the northern empire in the human land. But to her dismay, he was much worse than her father.
Iris always pretended in front of her dad and Lila whenever she visited them. She didn't want Lila to worry about the fact that she married a bastard.
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Their marriage evening
Iris was considered a beauty, with her French curves and waist length blonde hair, expressive large eyes and pink lips. She was so lovable and it was one of the factors that led the family to propose marriage to her despite having a scumbag father. Her in-laws took a liking to her as soon as she stepped foot into their door and it made her bashful and shy. During the discussions, they found out that it was actually Julian's mother that proposed marriage to her instead of Julian. Julian was forced to marry her….
"let's go iris," he suddenly said and it made her surprised
"where are we going?"
"common we can't stay in the family house; we will have our own family so we can't stay here forever. Besides were newlyweds, we need space"
Not hesitating for a moment, iris followed Julian to his villa.
"welcome home" his voice was cold and he was talking as though he was addressing one of his subordinates.
Iris totally understood. She wasn't expecting any source of love from him whatsoever.
She was going to stay out of his lane just like they wanted. After all they were married in name…
…
"Julian?" he said nothing and glanced at her his gaze asking why she suddenly called him
"I know you don't like me and I totally understand. I'm not going to interfere in your life whatsoever. I just wanted to thank you. You might not know but you bought me a ticket from hel