A/N: Antoine drama. No beta, my English sucks, blah blah.
"He's lying, only using you for revenge." Bash snapped to her wife. He has just discover her plans to annul their marriage in order to go with Antoine and become queen. How could she? Really he mean so little to her?
So, he knows.
"It is so kind of you to think no man would marry me willingly." She replied, ironically.
He looked at her with disbelief, but soon all Bash had was anger.
"You will get what you deserve. You want to throw all we have away just to put a crown in your head. You are the same person you were before we wed, a selfish woman who only cares for money and status."
"You should be happy to getting rid of me, then."
"Catherine told me-" Bash begins, looking for her eyes.
"Did she?" Kenna mocked.
She was so angry with Bash that didn't tell him the truth, but apparently Catherine did. The two women had been devising a plan against Antoine and Condé. The King of Navarre had to believe Kenna would leave her husband.
"I-"
"Listen carefully, Sebastian, because I'm only gonna say this once. I have this paper in my hand witch is an annulment for our marriage. With our signatures and the king's it will be real."
Francis... a real annulment?
"You can't be serious..."
"I am. I want you yo sign it. I did."
"Don't do this..."
She laughed. Laughing is better than crying.
"I'm so tired of this. You going away and then coming back just to go away again. And then, hurting me, treating me like I'm a horrible person just to want more. I want to be free. I want to be myself. But you don't want the real me. So, I'm gonna leave this here, I want you to think about it, truly, and I hope to return in the morning and find your signature on it." Bash looked at the document as Kenna talked "What we had was good. But we were forced to it, we pretend it doesn't matter but it does matter and is gonna come out every time we fight. We want different things and it will be our ruin."
"I love you, I want all of you." The words left his lips so fast.
"Really? Because you think so little of me. You still think I want a luxurious ring rather than the one you gave me. Even when I wear it every day. And I do like stuff and do want parties and I do want to be more. Just... I wanted it all with you." She breathed out. "I want you to be there for me and to trust me with every part of your soul just like I do, but apparently is asking you too much and I don't want a marriage like that. I deserve better" She finished before leaving the room.
Bash stayed awake all night thinking of her wife's words. And when she come back the next morning she found another paper on the table.
You're right. You deserve happiness and to be free and that's why I will sign it. But if you just can trust me when I say that after that I want to marry you again, this time without tears, just to prove to you that this is what I want. I've no been the best husband lately, I know it. I'm always out and I don't strive to understand your needs, but I do now. I've talked to Francis to take the duchy, I will do whatever it takes to be the mistake you can't live without. But, if you can't trust me, is fine too, I will sign the paper either way, because I want you to be free. It doesn't matter if you break my heart in the way.
Kenna entered their bedchambers the following day when Bash was still asleep and began to drop little pieces of paper on her husband's face.
"What are you-" He began, realizing then that maybe, just maybe... "Is this the annulment?"
"It is." She confirmed with a smile.
"But I've signed it. I thought-"
"Well, I don't want to be a queen."
"What do you want?" Bash asked, so seriously that Kenna thought if she had asked for a rock from the moon he would have went and got her one.
"I want to be The Mistress of Horse and Hunt. Also, you're going to stay away from the woods for awhile"
"But what kind of Master of Horse and Hunt would I be far from the woods?" The joke couldn't hide the relief in his eyes and in his soul.
"The one that keeps his wife."
"Fair enough."
