A Dishonest proposal.
Rosaland sat silently as she listened to her father. His little rebellion had failed and the Emperor was showing him the meager kindness of one last option for their family to be saved. She would marry the man who her father had destroyed at the beginning of this. The b*****d played off as a legitimate heir. He had been stripped of his title and lands by the courts, falling to the front lines of the rebellion. He had ultimately earned the Emperor's favor and a loophole had been found. Instead of her father being beheaded and her being cast out onto the streets, she would give him her lands and bestow her noble title on their wedding night.
She wished the man were a stranger, some new face who only hated her for her father. Unfortunately, she knew her soon to be husband. He had been a childhood friend, and eventually a fiancé before her father destroyed his life and she turned away from him. A pit of fear sank in her stomach, unsure of the revenge her soon to be husband was about to seek.
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