"Bring him here. Tell his our portrait session is about to begin," I ordered. The waitress started ignoring me and getting on my nerves. "Hey, did you hear me?" I snapped a little angrily. His hand, which was picking up my make-up for me, almost slipped in surprise and nervousness thanks to my snapping. "Unfortunately, Lord Frederick's orders are for you to take the portrait alone, Your Honour. You can wait for it when your session is over," he explained, still with his face ignoring me. 'What does this mean? Is he going to marry me or not? Why do I feel more and more marginalized by him.' My mind was upset and grumbling. I sulked, shooing away the servant who was going to help me dress and choosing to organize it myself with my hands. "Over here, Your Honour." A painter who would be handling the business of having my face drawn showed me the room that had been reserved. The irritation, disappointment, and daydreaming that stirred me up this morning, made me realize too late that
"Hurry up and finish imaging your face, because you have to choose your wedding dress soon." Frederick shook his body dismissively at my complaints.The room left me sitting in the center alone, miserable, surrounded by the smell of oil paint that was too strong for my nose."Your Honour, we will try one more time. In a moment, the artist will come to fix your make-up. Are you ready?" the painter asked after discarding the failed canvas and replacing it with a fresh sheet."Paint my face. No need to wait for me to smile, just draw what you see here," I limply ordered, already losing the will to do anything.No matter how hard I tried, my ears could not deafen the sound of an Omega screaming in the room beside me. Carla was allowed into Matthias' room and accompanied him to his session.They were chatting happily and harmoniously as if the world belonged to the two of them. Jealous? Of course. They had only been together for a short time and were already that close.As for me? For as l
"We present the appointed groom, King Matthias Theodosius, to sit in front of the priest who will chant a verse from the holy book."I jumped so hard that I almost dropped the crown on my head. The voice of the priest who was presiding over our ceremony suddenly mentioned the name of an Alpha who should not be part of this series of holy wedding ceremonies.Soon enough, my groom arrived. Frederick dressed the same as me and took a seat beside me as if blind to what he had just said."Hey! Are you crazy!?" I whispered after he sat down beside me. "You're allowing Matthias to get married here? With us? Have you lost your mind!?""Sssshhh." His finger silenced my lips that had not finished protesting and not understanding. "Keep your voice down, or you want everyone to hear.""Let me go!" I dismissed his hand with indifference. I lifted the white cloth covering my face so I could look at his indifferent face."Answer me, you didn't allow Matthias to marry Carla in my palace, did you?" I
/slap!/As if it had a consciousness of its own, my hand moved on its own to slap Matthias until he fell silent. I lost control of my emotions, and only realized my mistake after witnessing fresh blood flowing from his nose."S-sorry ... I didn't mean to," my words turned sour. Then, resentment soared after remembering the reason why I had slapped him.It was because he asked me to stay in this room while he was going to see that damn Omega!"Do you want to see her?” I asked, ignoring the pain of this Alpha in front of me. "You want me to stay here, so you can be with her? Is that true, Matthias? Have you now begun to dare to leave me and Starling? now"His face turned toward me with a slanted gaze, full of question marks. His fingers wiped away the drops of blood as he focused on me."If I leave you, I'll never be here in the first place," he replies, his voice sounding cold and hateful. I had never heard his voice this cold, except for the first time we met."With me being here, tha
"Her Majesty Queen Isabelle Magnolia. By taking the vows of life and death, are you, willing to accompany, love, and take care of your groom-to-be until the end of your life?" Now, it was the Priest's turn to lead me to say the sacred vows.While I'm still here, I'm still astonished by the strangeness that Frederick let out from behind the cover of his face. Impatiently, I was still waiting for his answer even though the priest was already waiting for me to recite the holy vows."Your Highness?" the Priest finally rebuked me, causing me to jump in surprise."Y-yes," I replied after realizing I was the center of attention at this event.My father and mother in the back sounded so worried, as did the rest of the audience. Luckily, the priest was so professional that the holy event could restart despite my repeated mess-ups."Her Majesty Queen Isabelle Magnolia. Are you, willing to accompany, love, and take care of your groom-to-be until the end of your life?" the holy vows repeated from
"I only love you. My Omega. The mother of my child. My queen, and my everything."I tightly hugged the body of the Alpha who had declared his first love, with the first sentence, and the first chant of happiness I heard from his voice.All the guests cheered in celebration of this marriage. It was only at this moment that I felt the two of us were truly married.Witnessed by many people, I shed tears of happiness that I had never gotten before, in my entire life.My makeup was out of shape, but it didn't matter. Now, I already had my mate. I had the strongest, most charismatic, and powerful Alpha in this land.To the Alpha who witnessed our holy matrimony, I gave him the most respectful look that only I could give him."Thank you, Frederick," I said between sobs, between my embrace with Matthias. I shared with him the greatest joy and gratitude in my heart.He felt it too. He accepted the gratitude gracefully. There was no sorrow, no regret, no misery. Frederick was genuinely happy ab
I won't waste this opportunity to make him melt and finally change his decision not to marry Isabelle.As a friend, I certainly don't want Matthias to regret his decision one day.Because even if Isabelle doesn't love me at all right now, it's possible that if we're always together, Isabelle will slowly start to love me, right?"Even if the marriage between me and Isabelle is married, is it possible that you will not regret it later if we turn out to love each other?"That sentence caught Matthias' attention and made him turn his head towards me, I'm sure he was quite concerned about that."I ... I'm fine, if you guys love each other in the future I won't have a problem with it, I will give up Isabelle for you," he said softly.Suddenly I chuckled softly at those words, so sure that what Matthias said was just a bunch of nonsense."Really?""You know, loving someone who is unrequited is very painful ... We can see her laughing and smiling with others, but must be forced to face the fa
[Frederick's POV finished][Back to Isabelle's POV]...-- Kingdom of Magnolia, Magnolia Palace-- The day after the wedding blessing ceremony-- Wedding hall"Frederick was right. If I had known that Matthias was going to marry me, I would have run away from this palace. No, you wouldn't. Even worse. Maybe I would have taken Starling away with me and never come back."My reaction made the two Alphas sitting in front of me pale like corpses. I just smiled, after listening to their explanation. Occasionally laughing at their little bickering when the story started."I still can't believe it," I muttered, as tears welled up in my eyes. "At the end of my despair, something very sweet came out of it. Not only that, I have two Alphas who love me so much."I looked at the two Alphas sitting side by side, in front of me, with both of them wearing different clothes. Matthias was still in his wedding suit, and Frederick was sitting in his changed clothes.It feels like it was only yesterday th