Atonement

„You are hurting me" bruise, eyes full of shame

You don't need to feel shame.

I should. I should protect you. We should protect you. We are knights

She was a queen, daughter to a king, sister to another one and nobody stopped the abuse

No one dared

He watched her suffering, feeling so much younger than his fifteen years

Sometimes she would stroke his hair telling him how much he looked like his mother

He can't bear her touch, can't look at her without wanting to cry in frustration

She must sense his feelings, she smiled her little smile

"Not worry little lion; I'm of the blood of the dragon"

He can see the woman she was and the woman she could have been, as bright and fierce like the mother in his memory…

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She was dead, her dynasty crumbled.

He killed her torturer/husband.

He had no right to the title "brother" a brother should love and protect his sister. He failed as a king as a human being, but mostly at being a brother to the woman he was lucky enough to be able to marry.

The dragon were gone other beast came to rule

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He prayed she wouldn't fall in love with her husband.

He was afraid of losing her.

He had had nightmares of her falling in love with the dragon prince, and now it was the stag king, he feared for his place in her heart

–In my cunt you mean- She made fun of and laughed for him to be this silly.

She laughed with him inside her, moaning, ordering him not to touch her hairs, not to ruin her wedding gown and to fuck her harder.

His prayer was answered.

She didn't love her King.

But the Gods were cruel, just like his father said

"Your Grace you are hurting me" bruises, eyes full of rage

-Swear you will not kill him…yet…-

He replaced a monster with another one

His punishment wasn't over