We're Engaged

Sera

“I love you more than I thought I could ever love someone. You are more than I’ll ever deserve.”

I thought men who spoke like that could only be found in romance books. Real-life men were hardly poetic, especially the ones in my vicinity. More often than not, romance was not in their wheelhouse.

I never thought I would be so lucky to find the man who did.

The Sera from a few months ago—kidnapped and sold like breeding stock, trapped inside a mansion with no help or even a shred of sympathy to be spared, wondering if I was going to live past twenty-two—could never have imagined where the current Sera would be. She was an entirely new person, and for the better. I went from having nothing to everything.

But I was only twenty-two. I had my entire life ahead of me. One of freedom to do whatever I wanted. My mother was forced into a marriage this young, and it had turned out to be her ruination. Killian was different. I knew that he would never treat me like my father had treated my m