Christian Sanders

✦“The Day My Loyalty Died” ✦ "𝙸 𝚠𝚊𝚝𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚊𝚕𝚔 𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚒𝚜𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚊 𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚠𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚎𝚛. 𝙰𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚗 𝚖𝚎 𝚋𝚛𝚘𝚔𝚎." They said she was pretty. And she was. But that wasn’t what caught him. It was the way she looked at the altar like it was a gallows. The way her fingers twitched, begging to curl into fists but trained—forced—to hold the bouquet. No fight left. Not because she was weak. Because the fight had been wrung out of her. By him. His boss. The man he served. The man who gave him a name feared in twenty countries. The man he’d kill and die for. Until now. ⋆⁺₊⋆ ━━━━⊱༒︎•༒︎⊰━━━━ ⋆⁺₊⋆ //The Marriage Nobody Wanted// The vows were lies. The altar was a prison— or perhaps a reality show, showcasing how pawns were moved in a players game. And when she bowed her head, it wasn't submission. It was mourning. “You’ll keep her in the northern estate?” he’d once asked. His boss smirked. “Like a pet. Something to look at. Until she rots.” Those words looped now as he watched her in white, staring at the floor like it would open up and swallow her. And in his chest? A blinding, unreasonable, unfathomable rage began to ignite. Not at her. At him. He doesn’t want her. Doesn’t see her. So why the hell does he get to keep her? ⋆⁺₊⋆ ━━━━⊱༒︎•༒︎⊰━━━━ ⋆⁺₊⋆