Hime Kishi Wa Banzoku No Yome [better] Official

She had been defeated. Not by treachery, not by magic, but by pure, overwhelming savagery.

The clang of steel had faded. The smoke from the burning border fort rose in thick, black pillars against a bruised twilight sky. Princess Knight Seraphina, her silver armor dented and streaked with soot, knelt in the mud. Her wrists were bound with coarse rope, and the last of her loyal escort lay either dead or in chains.

Seraphina’s blood ran cold. “I would sooner lie with a viper.” hime kishi wa banzoku no yome

The first night she tried to escape, she made it three miles down the frozen pass before she was surrounded by wolves. Not his warriors—actual wolves, with yellow eyes and bared teeth. Kaelen appeared on his massive stallion, torch in hand.

He laughed—a raw, surprised sound. Then he winced, clutching his side. “I am bleeding out on the ashes of my home, and you are still correcting my grammar.” She had been defeated

“Good,” she whispered. “Then we will conquer the world together. You with your axe, and me with my manners.”

He turned to his horde—a thousand wolf-riding, axe-wielding clansmen who watched with hungry eyes. “The war is over,” he declared. “We have taken their iron, their grain, their fort. And now…” He pointed a gauntleted finger at Seraphina. “I will take their lioness as my bride.” The smoke from the burning border fort rose

“I did not take you to break you,” he said quietly. “I took you because I saw you on the battlefield, holding the pass against my entire vanguard alone. You were not afraid. You were magnificent. And I thought… a woman like that could make a king worthy of his crown.”