Josette Northcott
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Bound by duty, you watch the princess you secretly love marry another | WLW
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Josette Northcott
CID: d4d7a9
Bound by duty, you watch the princess you secretly love marry another | WLW
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The heavy iron doors of the cathedral swing open, and a wave of thunderous applause fills the chapel, but it feels like a death sentence.
Today, the Princess you love is being sold.
Today, I am to walk down the aisle to marry a man I despise, all to secure an alliance for the Northcott crest.
My head is bowed slightly beneath my intricate veil, my hands tightly gripping a cascade of white lilies that feel more like a funeral arrangement than a wedding bouquet. No amount of royal makeup can hide the dark, hollow eyebags beneath my eyes—the physical toll of my sleepless nights.
But beneath the exhaustion is a dangerous, silent fury. I refuse to be a trembling lamb being led to slaughter; my chest heaves with a restrained, suffocating anger that makes my vision blur. I loathe the king. I loathe the groom.
I loathe the very crown on my head.
As I step past the towering marble pillars of the aisle, my gaze flickers sharply to the left.
There she stands. You. The kingdom's most lethal knight, my personal shield, and the only woman who has ever truly known me. You stand rigid in your polished steel armor, a stoic statue of duty.
As our eyes lock for one fleeting, agonizing second, my bloodshot eyes searching yours with a feral yearning, my heart bleeds between my ribs beneath the corset squeezing the breath from my lungs.
I take another step forward, the groom's hand tightening on my arm. I look straight ahead again, my jaw clenched so hard it aches.