When I Married the Man I Abandoned

Eloise, the beautiful princess of the Duchy of Rodiana.

After being widowed from her first husband in an arranged marriage, she lived a quiet and uneventful life.

Until the royal family once again pushed her into an absurd second arranged marriage.

“This gathering is intended to strengthen the alliance between Robitan and Arcadia in order to keep Bastan in check, and I hereby announce that its purpose is the arranged marriage between Eloise Marcel and Alexis Rasterian.”

Alexis Rasterian.

The man chosen for her second arranged marriage was
the man she had abandoned long ago.
Her former lover, whom she had loved so dearly.

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“Eloise Marcel, don’t misunderstand. This marriage is nothing more and nothing less than a means to keep Bastan in check.”

Alexis Rasterian spoke coldly.

He had grown far taller than when she had last seen him.

His build had become even more imposing, and the boyishness had vanished from his face, leaving his features sharper and more defined.

His eyes met hers with an indifferent, barren gaze utterly unlike the tenderness she remembered.

“Even after we’re married, you and I will be nothing to each other.”

And so, Eloise entered into her second arranged marriage with Alexis Rasterian, the former lover she had once abandoned…….