15 Chapter 15: Kelose- Endings (1/2)
Chapter 15: Kelose- Endings
\t”I am so sick of hearing about her! Everywhere I go, the talk of the city is Kysael!” Lunariel stormed around the manor in her daily rage.
\tThings had been tense with us ever since Kirinae had gotten Kysael banished from Havengrove. The entire city of Irasil had been buzzing about Kysael and rumors of her ever since. And Lunariel hated it.
\tI knew that nothing that I could say or do would make her feel better.... I had tried before.
\tI knew that I was only a prize to her. One of the quickest advancing assassins of Havengrove, I now got paid to hunt down and assassinate people all over the world and be applauded for it. Several women around this city openly ogled at me, so I knew that I must be quite attractive, as well.
\tLunariel had never, not once, told me that she loved me. I knew that she didn't care anything about me or my feelings. I knew that she didn't care from the moment that we had gotten word of my child brother's murder.
\tLunariel had not one time tried to comfort me. At this point, I wasn't even sure why I was here.
\t”Today, the newsies are saying that Kysael is a legend because she was able to ride on a wyvern and live to tell about it!” She screeched in her annoying voice. ”Who cares about that disgusting mixed-breed anyway?! Besides her idiot husband?”
\tI remembered the news of Dragon and Kysael's marriage. It had not been news that made me happy. It was supposed to be me, I had thought. But then....it had always been Dragon. He had been there since she was born. She had loved him all of her life, and I knew that. Even though she had never said it in our time together, I could feel her watching him. I could sense her heightened energy around him, and how his presence comforted her. I could feel how she relied on him.
\tYes, it had always been Dragon.
\tWhen we had first heard about the wedding here in Irasil, I had thought that it was simply a rumor, not thinking that there was any way that it could be known for sure.
\tBut when I had gone to Havengrove to visit my family, and found Dragon leaving with a search party for Kysael, and he had admitted that they were indeed husband and wife, and that he had freshly inseminated her with his seed...it had left a bitterness in my soul.
\tI remembered that all along, he had been arranged to marry her from the time that she was an infant, because of what she was.
\tHe was practically her fiancé all along, and yet he had allowed her to be with me.
\tHe had put himself to the side, for the sake of her desires.
\tMy eyes burned. My blood felt as if it were lit aflame. The audacity of it infuriated me.
\tWhen I had returned home, Lunariel was no longer expecting. She had shown little emotion or care over the entire ordeal.
\tAnd part of me idly wondered if, in my absence, she had terminated my child. But I didn't dwell on the thought. I couldn't. I couldn't allow myself to think of it. It only served to infuriate me all the more.
\t”That stupid girl!” Lunariel screeched again. ”Why can't she simply die already? Then I can have some peace!”
\tI made myself stay calm. Getting into an argument would only make things worse.
\tShe changed clothes into a very tight, seductive gown that I had bought for her for our honeymoon.
\tI almost got my hopes up.... but before I could ask if she was getting dolled up for me, she stormed out the door, slamming it behind her.
\tI sighed, my shoulders slumping. I decided to get dressed and go out for a night on the town myself. No point in sitting in an empty mansion with nothing to do, right?
\tI went to my bedroom, across the hall from hers, and went through my clothes. I found something nice, and went back down the long hallway to go back through the gathering area, kitchen, and out the door.
\tI went through the courtyard square, down the cobblestone street to the pub right down the road.... but then I thought better of it.
\tLunariel didn't like it when I drank.
\tAnd when I turned to go back home, I saw something on the opposite side of the street...
\tLunariel, arm looped with a man's, strolled down the opposite side of the street and into an inn.
\tLunariel....was cheating on me?
\tI almost couldn't believe it.
\tWho would want to be with her anyway?
\tShe was...so...unattractive.
\tAlthough, she did have a lot of money.
\tBut for goodness sake, I was her husband! She had drug me from my home after having her uncle, King Eranton, force me to marry her!
\tAnd she was cheating on me?
\tFurious, I turned right back around and strutted straight into the pub and sat at a table, ordering ten pints of ale.
\tI had been nothing but loyal and faithful to that hateful, ugly shrew! And this was the thanks that I got?
\tNo.
\tNot this time.
\t”Well, hello there, handsome. I'm not used to seeing you around here,” a sultry voice said from behind me.
\tI turned, and my eyes almost popped out of my head.
\tShe was tall, nearly my height.
\tShe had blonde hair, a slender face, a thin neck, narrow shoulders, bulging breasts, wide curves....and bright, bright green eyes.
\tI had not seen any woman this attractive in a while.
\tI could tell that she had Woodelf in her, but she didn't look full blooded...perhaps half Woodelf, Half Mountain elf?
\tBut then, I didn't really, honestly care at that moment in time.
\t”You look like you are lonely. Care to join me?” She asked, whistles sounding off in the background.
\tI almost declined.... until I remembered Lunariel going into the inn with that man, wearing the gown that I had bought for her.
\t”Sure, I would love to join you,” I said softly, and she led me back to her table.
\tWe began drinking, and she spoke after taking a gulp of ale. ”So, what is your story?” She asked me.
\t”I just found out that my wife is cheating on me,” I said darkly, and she covered her mouth with one hand.
\t”Oh, I am so sorry. I don't see how any woman could possibly cheat on someone as dashing and handsome as you. You are...so.... manly....” She said, putting her hand on my knee.
\tAnd then it suddenly clicked.
\tThis woman was a harlot! A prostitute!
\tNo wonder to me now that she was dressed so provocatively.
\t”Say, why don't we go somewhere, handsome? I can make you forget all about your troubles,” she said, eyes hungry with lust.
\t”I....I don't know,” I said, hesitant. ”I'm married-”
\t”And you just said yourself that your wife is cheating on you, off somewhere getting pleased by another man other than her own husband. Do you really believe that's fair?”
\t”Well, no, but I-”
\t”So, she gets to be pleased, but you don't? Come now, I can make your fantasies come true. Come on, come with me to the inn.”
\tI thought of Lunariel, off somewhere, getting pleasured by a man other than me, even after all that I had done for her.
\tOut of all the time that we had been married, all the times that I had asked her to be intimate with me and she'd refused, denying me, depriving me of a woman's touch...we had only been intimate a couple of times since we had gotten married.
\tAnd then she had ”lost” the baby, and would hardly even glance my way anymore.
\t”You can make my fantasies come true?” I asked softly.
\t”I guarantee it.”
\t”I'll go with you.”
*
\tI pulled my boots on, the sun rising in the sky outside of the inn.
\t”Do you really have to go back to her?” She asked, pouting. ”That was.... truthfully, that was some of the best sex I have ever had. You are a wonderful lover.”
\tI looked back at her from over my shoulder. ”I have to face her sometime if I want to get my possessions.”
\t”I suppose. Then would you come back to me?”
\t”I will more than likely return to my homeland, back to Havengrove. But thank you, for everything,” I said. ”What is your name?”
\t”Sefrana.”
\t”I am Kelose.”
\tShe dropped her glass of wine, letting it crash onto the floor. ”You? You're Kelose?” She choked.