After noticing her injury and inspecting the weapon closer, she raised her brows at the man lying there. "Wait. Is this my knive?"
"After stabbing me with it, and throwing hundreds of books on me, I at least deserve to keep it. So, no, that's my knive."
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In the country of Solanum, Uriel is the closest that there is to a librarian. As her father decides to sell her off around the same time a charismatic intruder is willing to grant her an escape that comes with a catch, she risks it.
Moving to the royal castle and cleaning dust from gilded statues and searching for her mother, all while wearing an apron, was however not what she expected. Nevertheless, catching the eye of the king.
She was young, reserved and a complete book lover. A rather curvy girl with hazel eyes.
He was strange with an always bored look but had an unnatural glint. You could say he was inhumanly beautiful with a perfect set of blue eyes.
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"I'm not interested in whatever pledge father had with the Gregory's. I will not marry that girl mother" He barks angrily as he stomps toward the foyer.
"Besides I heard she has the most boring set of hazel eyes" He adds as he mentally face palms at such a weak excuse.
"Alex you have to do this, not for yourself but for your father.. - the kingdom" his mother pleads as she tries to catch up with him.
"How would the kingdom look at a king who cannot honour a pledge" she says.
He groans furiously this was a waste of time.
Alexander freezes midway as a foreign memory flashes through his mind. He wasn't even interested in hazel eyes