Affairs Of The Heart
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  • Reads 825,327
  • Votes 26,992
  • Parts 42
  • Time 10h 30m
Complete, First published Nov 02, 2017
Mature
//Please note this story is under heavy construction! Read at your own risk.//

                                          If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.   
                                                                          ~Leo Tolstoy
                                                                                  . . . . . . . 

A flower is to be always beautiful lest it is cast away.

A flower is to be innocent and pure. 

Delicate in nature, ever to bring squinting smiles to those around. 

A flower is perfect. Always perfect. 

She was the perfect embodiment of a flower.

Her name, Iris.


A thorn is sharp like a knight's blade. 

It inflicts pain and draws blood if one dares to get close.

A thorn protects a flower from the wickedness of the world.

A thorn is attached to the king, ever guarding.

He was the perfect embodiment of a thorn. 

His name, Luca.



She was an iris in no need of a thorn and he was a thorn in no need of a delicate iris.
Thrust together by an arranged marriage, the unlikely pair, the thorn, and the flower must now find a way to co-inhabit in the same garden. 

Bracing the strength of the winter, will their love and companionship last for the spring season or will the cold betrayal of a parasitic orchid, the overflowing herbicide of lies and the perfect perfection of the Iris trample the delicate budding bloom of their affairs of the heart?
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