"I am neither interested nor obligated to meddle in royal affairs. If you do not have any other words, do see yourself out. The Serpent's Guild does not welcome outsiders." Everybody heard of the last name Betlinde, along with the affluential family that controlled the Serpent's Guild, but nobody knew there was another daughter, one who would soon become the first Mistress of the Guild. One highly classified mission of escorting the 'war god' general Ezekiel Throndsen back to the palace after obtaining serious injuries on the battleground. Two nights spent together as Lethe strived to prove herself competent of leading. A single meeting that changed the course of their lives as Ezekiel decides that he would take nobody else as his wife. But is it really that simple? A previously arranged marriage between Ezekiel and the duke's daughter hinders their paths from crossing. Lethe's own unwillingness to marry remains an unfathomable mystery. And the combined power and influence the two will hold if ever joined agitates even the king himself. One year after the incident, Ezekiel visits the Serpent's Guild once again to find the girl who once saved his life with seemingly no background and no known information about her now sitting as the Mistress of the Guild. He was set on marrying the one person who didn't have any intensions to marry. She was determined on uncovering the one secret she was not meant to know. //𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝟭-𝟮 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿//