Forced Marriage: Thirteenth Wife
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Roxanne wants out. For now there was no clear reason he could think of but Roxanne wanted to go out and get things done. Elios, Sanya, himself.

"Until when did you lock me up?" roxanne finally asked, having grown tired of the confinement in this heaven-sounding room. "Even if your wife is no longer there, do you think it's not strange to be in your sister-in-law's room?"

"You and I are brothers-in-law? After everything?"

Roxanne hates every time Eris does this. Roxanne used to love it because she was so kind and gentle. But after finding out, he and Sanya were the same. Convoluted in his speech.

"Young Master." Roxanne swallows the urge to explode, replacing it with absolute cold. "Please stop being stupid and stay away from me. Nothing and nothing will happen between you and me."

"Because you hate me?"

"Because I'm not as good as you!" roxanne shouted in the end.

"Unlike Young Master Narendra who was blind was still Narendra, I was the wife of a monster like Elios who could strangle people just because she was upset! If you understand quickly end this nonsense!"

Deep in Roxanne's heart, she wasn't sure how this worked. Yelling at Eris who plucked out her own eyes for the sake of conviction, for the sake of her choice, and killed her wife for all those things?

But the expression Eris gave after that surprised Roxanne.

"I'm not very good at treating women" he murmured. "Sorry, Roxanne. I didn't mean to trouble you at all."

I really hate people like him. Roxanne wants to go berserk and mess things up. For a moment he looked scary, for a moment he looked lonely. I hate everyone in this house!

"If you're sorry, get me out."

"Well, you can go."

Eh?

It's true Roxanne just asked but .. eh? That is to say after confining Roxanne for days now she was so easy to let go as if there was no reason at all Roxanne was locked up here?!

"Take Roxanne back to her room. Then two of you stay for a while" Eris commanded her servant.

A sign that she no longer needed Roxanne in this room.

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"You released Roxanne so easily. And yesterday I couldn't even visit him." So said Arkas who came suddenly.

The man flopped behind Eris, leaning his head on her shoulder. Eris' soft laughter sounded faintly in Arkas's ears. "He's mad at me. How else to."

My brother's a liar. Arkas smiled as he thought about it.

Elios has calmed down. Yesterday Naviah came downstairs and calmed him down. Arkas heard he was trying hard because Elios almost broke his shackles. In other words, has Eris' goal been achieved?

"You love him?" whispered Arkas. "As much as you love Nernia?"

"You're not the kind of person who answers I don't know for the obvious. So, you could say you yourself don't know?"

"true." Eris rests on Arkas' back.

"Sometimes, I feel like I'm lying to her." Eris smiled. "I just realized that no matter what my emotions were like, I was always smiling. And Roxanne hates him."

Darkness suddenly covers Arkas.

Different from Eris who always calmly said, even about how he killed Nernia for Arkas, the burden was difficult for Arkas to bear.

"But I also often feel my body strange around him."

"You horny? Even if you don't see her?" Arkas was joking.

"That's possible. Roxanne's voice is adorable to me."

"He belongs to Elios, Big Brother."

"I know." Eris tried to smile but somehow it was difficult. "I think of Nernia around her."

"...."

"It's not about me seeing her as Nernia or I feeling Nernia's presence from her. It's not like that. But ... but my body suddenly hurt."

Arkas shuts down tightly.

"I want to say 'i miss Nernia so hug me, Roxanne' then I feel like my longing will slowly disappear."

"...."

"But he was angry and told me to just die. Ah, you too. Elios too. Just die, he said."

I need to keep Eris away from Roxanne like her. Arkas stared coldly at the empty air in front of him. Roxanne and Nernia may be one different type of character only.

Roxanne is better off with Elios than Eris.

"Eris—"

"Arc." Eris's voice was like stroking an Arkas call. "I smell your fear."

The tip of Arkas' fingers was shaking. But his lips covered a poignant smile. "You want to how else, right?" said. "You can do what I can't."

When Arkas thought of Narendra without exception, Eris thought only of Arkas. It scared Arkas. He didn't want Roxanne to end up Nernia and he didn't want Eris to get lonely.

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