The Legends We Never Became

Ophelia has always had trust issues. But it all started when her father, the person who was supposed to love and care for her mother and her for the rest of his life, allowed the excuse of an empire called the Yerpen to kill her mother, his own wife, to burn her on a pyre before her very eyes. After the death of her mother, Ophelia Xander has stopped at nothing to destroy the monsters that took her mother from her. Stopped at nothing to destroy the Yerpen. And when the chance comes to kill the very heir of the Yerpen who sentenced her mother to death, she can't resist. The only thing stopping her: Her superiors, who breath down her neck every day, threatening her life--in turn, her mother being avenged, if she killed him. Second was the feelings she's been starting to feel for him.

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Alaric Yerpen has never thought his family was doing the wrong thing. Which was why he supported them, and caught his father's attention which made him Crown Prince and Heir to his father's throne.

That is, until he met Narelle. Alaric loved Narelle. Deeply. She helped him open his eyes to his father's wrongs, to how the Yerpen stood for all the wrong things. And Alaric realised his mistake, and decided to abdicate.

But the day he decides to tell his father he wants to abdicate, Narelle is killed. His father had found out that he and Narelle had been seeing each other, and wanted to end it. "She isn't of royal blood," was what he'd imagined his father saying. And when Narelle had been executed in front of his very eyes, as he watched her heart stop, he knew what had to be done.

He was going to destroy his father. Not matter the cost.

But falling in love with his sworn enemy Ophelia Xander, someone who's wanted to kill him for god knew how long, was not part of his plan.