My Fiancée Hates Me

[The Past]

"Erik, I am going to the northern border for a bit," I told him as I began packing.

Erik pulled me by my arm into his lap.

"Whatever you can do, you can stay with me."

There it is... Erik is being needy again.

I touched his cheek with my hand.

"You have become King... You are in a position where you must not leave from your tower is what I should say," I said as I pulled his cheeks. "You have been sneaking out here and there..."

"Ow... how did you find out?"

"I know that you have been sneaking out with the number of books piling in our bedroom. Most of them are not even about law or medicine. That means that you have been obtaining these books outside of the Royal Library," I said as I pointed towards the unorganized pile of books.

A few maids would come and clean only once a week since Erik hated people coming and going out of our room often.

"I have seen you taking a few books here and there as well..."

I flinched slightly.

He found out...

Erik was an avid reader much like me and Garett. It was a bit unexpected seeing as though he loves to skip out on his official duties.

"Who do you think has to cover for you?" I asked him. "Even for sneaking out, you leave for far too long...Please think about your wife as well."

Erik pulled me aside and threw me on the bed. I fell down onto my side and pulled my legs up slightly as I curled my body and looked at Erik. He crouched over me and encased me in his arms.

"You are absolutely right. I have been disregarding my wife for too long," he said as he picked up the bottom of my long skirt.

I did not mean like this!

I felt like panicking.

"W-Wait..."

"Why wait? We are already married, Ari," he said as his hands ran under my shirt.

This might be a bit bad. Erik has had a bad case with overdoing things. If I let things go on like this, I will be bedridden and be forced to move my plans back a day.

He suddenly kissed my neck.

"...Erik, I really can't today," I said in a not so convincing voice.

I was suddenly pinched on my sides.

"You have gone soft..."

How dare he?

I grabbed the closest pillow I could and began smacking Erik as much as I could and left him as a decrepit corpse on our bed.

I had begun a sedimentary lifestyle with Erik's increasing truancy. I had disregarded my strict diet and exercise regime.

I was not particularly fat, but it is discerning if Erik is able to grab my sides and tell me that I have grown soft...The royalty life is a very scary thing.

I barged into the maids' lounge.

"Your Highness!"

I suddenly felt oncoming tears.

I was quickly surrounded by my worried maids.

"What is wrong, Your Highness?" a maid asked.

"...I need...I need to diet," I said as I began wiping my tears with my wrists. "His Highness grabbed my love handles."

My hands were suddenly clasped by the younger maids.

"Say no more," a maid told me.

"For honor! For Arundel! For the best body!" the maids said in unison.

I cannot let this go on before I head off on official business.

was even more brutal than Knight training in the

push my trip back, but my getting my body back in shape is very important. During the time I was under strict observation, I had avoided Erik the

Your Highness!" a maid said as she measured

I was seen out by the maids who helped me get back to my ideal

in sight. He must have been angry with me for leaving him alone while I went on my diet. He should have

crying before I

Highness is such

left for my trip

Fortress Stella, Your Highness, Queen Arielle," Commander Darian Derek said. "I hope your trip was smooth coming

seemed to shake slightly in

glare is frightening the Commander,"

still mad

put back

your very

you around, Your

so, I may be an esteemed person, but there must be other people that are less

taken back by my

not as busy

be as smooth then," I said

by my presence. I am a little girl

"Of course..."

was rather

take a look at the

said as he brought me to the

to an open

poor and the tools they

awfully a

while most come from small

the training

me a written list of their training

by them. They mostly

no one to oversee their

"There is someone..."

under an

"How comfortable looking..."

is difficult for even me to tell him

I quickly wrote up a new training

in the capital. I expect them to at least

Your Highness," he said as he accepted the sheet of

a bit of resistance because I was a woman. My position as Queen and my high

a familiar person with long black hair tied into a long low ponytail. He looked much different without his glasses and had grown out his bangs to cover

"Garett?"

"Arielle?"

my excitement from meeting

Highness is acquainted with

together at the

"That's right," Garett said.

got married to His Highness about a year ago," I informed

the Royal Family, he did not attend

see...Congratulations, Your Highness," Garett said with a solemn

'Your Highness'...

right...I am a Queen

become

am more of an assistant of

well as his hands. Honestly, he is a bit

I said with a smile. "I look forward

seen to my room

seem a bit

"Do I?"

were a bit unapproachable during our Academy days...Do you

nearly as much as I used to. I say that you have changed

way?" I asked

as he stopped before my room. "My job ends here. I will

"Yes..."

scared me

say sweet

and heard a rustling sound

have a bad feeling about

on my sheets and saw that my

thought it was a bit quiet after the