The warmth I felt when we intertwined our bodies reignited my cold heart, I felt passion, strength, and the ability to move forward. I held my husband's hand with love overflowing each day.
The sadness I had felt from my parents' death had all but vanished, it was like I was living a dream, but in the end, all dreams are crushed by reality.
The more time I spent with Krik the more I realised we shouldn’t be together. Krik was a passionate lover, a hard worker, and an incredibly brilliant man. While I was just street trash.
Whenever we attend any event as husband and wife, his mere presence made the room spin, every single person always wanted to get close to him, he was always without a doubt the most desired person in the room.
Standing next to him made me realise how much I really am worth, next to his overwhelming presence I was just a speck of dust who wasn’t worthy to stand beside him. If we never met that day I would have lived my whole life without ever even breathing the same air as such a man.
But I wasn’t the only person who noticed this.
“How did Krik marry such a girl.”
“He had thousands of marriage offers yet he chose that trash.”
“That lady is manipulating the young master.”
“What right does a peasant like her have to be with him.”
“She hasn’t worked a day since she has been here.”
“Just a money-sucking parasite.”
The servants, the people, even Krik's work partners, everywhere I went I could hear their comments clearly. But I never responded to a single one of them, because no matter how much it hurts me, I couldn’t refute the truth.
Then one day, I told Krik, “I would like a divorce, that is all carry on with your day.”
Walking away I am suddenly jumped by Krik who wraps his arms and legs all around my body and says with tears gushing down his eyes, “Please don’t go, I am sorry if I did anything wrong, but please don’t leave me, I love you too much!!!”
“Stop crying you big baby, you’re an adult man.”
“But I just really don’t want you to leave me, if I did something wrong, I will change I promise. Just tell me what it is.”
“You did nothing wrong.”
“Then did something happen, is someone blackmailing you; if they are I will kill them a hundred times over.”
“Nothing like that, I just simply think you have better options, so marry them instead of me.”
Recomposing himself, he says, “I am sorry, I thought I was showering you with enough love but it seems I have failed as a husband. So let me reaffirm this, I love you more than anyone or anything in the world, even if you were to die right this second I would never be with another woman, because there are none others like you.”
“You dumb dog, you shouldn’t say stuff like that because it hurts my will.”
“Let your will break and fade away, because what I said is the truth.”
“I have a bad temper, and a foul mouth, no family name, nor anything to give you to help expand your business, don’t you workaholics on Skydust want to perfect your craft, if you stay married to me that will only be a dream.
“I say yet again; I love you more than anything. So, no matter what I will stay with you, you won’t walk alone on this earth ever again.”
“Idiot.”
Skydust is a country filled with impassioned people who work like their lives depended on it, and living as an outsider in such a country makes me feel like I am suffocating. Though little by little I have gained the ability to breathe again with my husband walking by my side.
The love we had for each other was endless and eventually, it bore fruit. “Don’t freak out, but I think I am pregnant.”
Dropping his work on the floor Krik runs over to me and tries to tackle me, but I give him a kick to the head instead. “Didn’t you hear me, I might be pregnant, don’t go tackling me.”
“But I am so happy!!! To think I get to be a dad and have a baby, I am about to have a little princess or prince I just can’t wait I am going to die at this rate.”
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“Well just calm down you donkey, or I won’t let you see the baby.”
“No wait, I have something more important than that to do!” Grabbing me he sits me down in a chair and ties me up with a curtain. Then he runs in and out surrounding my body with pillows.
“There, complete safety!”
“What the hell is this, Krik?”
“For these next nine months, I must make sure absolutely no harm comes to you. This isn’t enough I also need to make sure your health is perfect. I am going to fly to Basileia to go get some medicine for the foreseeable future, I will be back soon!!”
As he runs out of the room I scream, “Untie me, you bastard!!”
Letting out a sigh, I say, “He really is just too much for someone like me, but still, I guess it is nice to have such an idiot in love with me.”
For the next few months, Krik was extraordinarily overprotective, he didn’t even want me to go for a walk outside the house. He had over 40 doctors stationed all around are estate, so no matter what time it was or when it was, I could be attended to.
The worst thing he did was completely wrap everything throughout the estate in foil so that if I fell I wouldn’t be hurt. Due to all of his antics, I had to discipline him quite a bit, but he took it all in stride, because the fact he was about to be a dad was something that kept a permanent smile on his face, and it did the same for me.
I used to spend all my time on this planet working myself to death or while being truly alone inside, but from this point on I won’t ever feel like that anymore. Because I now have two special people in my life.
Quickly time passed by and in no time the baby was about to arrive. But it seems my fortune so far in life had been too good.
Rubbing my oversized belly I say, “You should be arriving soon little one.”
Walking through the door Elliot has a rather perturbed look on his face. Such an expression on our kind butler puts me in a state of shock, never once have I seen Elliot ever be shocked or overly emotional in any way, you could say in that regard he is the opposite of Krik.
“Elliot, what happened?”
Recomposing himself and returning to being the perfect butler, Elliot tells me, “My lady there has been an incident.”
Stopping for a second, Elliot looks like he is faint of breath and beings to shake then he says, “During Krik’s business trip to Weinstead, Gevurah declared war on the country.”
Hearing this, I get up from my seat and say, “Where is Krik Elliot?”
“Because of this declaration, as a sign of revolt, citizens of Weinstead decided to hold prisoner anyone who had any sort of affiliation with Gevurah.”
“WHERE IS MY HUSBAND ELLIOT!”
“They decided to execute them all, Krik is dead my lady.”
With all the strength in my legs, I run towards the door of the room but I am grabbed and stopped by Elliot, “LET GO OFF ME RIGHT THIS INSTANT!”
“I can’t do that, my lady.”
“THIS IS AN ORDER ELLIOT, LET GO OF ME.”
“To do what my lady.”
“TO GO SEE KRIK, HE IS STILL ALIVE I KNOW IT, HE WOULD NEVER ABANDON ME, HE MADE A PROMISE. HE PROMISED ME HE WOULD NEVER LEAVE.”
“My lady please the young master, my lord is dead and I know it is hard but you must accept this.”
Hearing this I fall on my knees to the floor and start to cry profusely. “KRIK YOU LIAR, I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU, LIAR!!!”
“My lady please don’t speak of him like that. I promise that it will be ok,” Elliot says reaching his hand towards me.
Slapping it away I scream, “Don’t touch me. I didn’t get married just to be left a lone mother.”
Suddenly I feel a giant surge of pain running throughout my body, which causes me to let out a giant scream.
Looking at me Elliot gets up and screams down the hallway, “THE BABY IS COMING!!”
Looking at my stomach I mumble, “Why did you decide to come now, if you only came a little sooner we wouldn’t be in this mess.”
Trying to help me up, Elliot puts his hand around me, but I knock it away, “I will walk by myself.”
Walking towards the delivery room with severe pain tears continue to fall from my eyes. Not only from the death of my husband but also from the sheer pain of moving.
When I arrive in the delivery room I take a second to look at everyone’s faces and I notice, that all their eyes are freshly swollen as if they have been crying only mere moments ago.
Walking up to me they say, “My lady, whatever you need for us please ask we are here for you now until the day we die. Let us bring your child into this world.”
Seeing the raw desire in their eyes, I wipe my tears and say, “Alright.”
Following that many of my memories are a blur, all I remember is the unbearable pain I felt followed by the tears of my newborn baby.
“My lady it is a boy.”
Holding my crying son in my arms, all I can say is, “Krik will never get to meet this child. He will never get to hold him kiss him, cry over him, spoil him, play with him, or even say he loves him. This child will never experience all of Kirk’s love.”
I don’t know why, but tears started to fall from the eyes of everyone, but with the state, I was left in I couldn’t even react to any of that. I was left in a daze completely recounting how my life managed to reach this point.
Looking at all the faces around me I start laughing hysterically. I am now completely in charge of the most profitable business on Skydust, have no marital bindings, and have a son. Every single one of these lives in front of me now lies on my frail shoulders.
So, from this moment I am back to living how I previously did, for the sake of others. Oh, how horrible my life is, but the worst part is that I can’t bring myself to complain about it, because there would be nothing more selfish to do than that.
I guess even a knight in shining armour can’t protect you from fate, he just lets you ignore reality for a while.
Name: Krik Kritz
Age: 28
Birthday: Sagittarius 11th
Hair: Black, with orange stripes
Eyes: Gold
Height: 175 cm
Description: The young head of the Kritz family, he is in charge of all exports and imports in Skydust and acts as the key between Skydust and all other countries. He is a passionate loveable man who wishes to see people, especially his wife happy all the time.
Name: Zterytavis
Height: 275 cm
Type: Wonderbeast, Carnivore
Description: A giant four-winged Bird. Amongst flying Wonderbeasts, they are known to be one of the slowest, but in exchange one of the strongest, they can carry large amounts very long distances and are said to be able to fly through extreme weather conditions unharmed.
Fact: They will use their children as bait to escape from predators.