Chapter Sixty Six: Engagement Ceremony

The next three days flew by in a blur of preparations and hopes that Elias and his army would show up in time to save me. However, in the end, he never showed up, and the night of the engagement ceremony came.

Vladimier made sure that I was up early in the morning so that I could go through the motions of preparing for what was to come. Starting from fasting from sun up to the ritual cleanse to remove any and all taint that may be on my body from another man, and then, of course, being placed in a parlor to have my hair and makeup done. Followed by being squeezed into a long white dress with too many ruffles and lace.

Staring in the mirror now, I wondered how it would look to see this beautiful woman before me splattered on the ground, because if in the end I wasn't rescued, there was a good possibility that would be my fate. One thing I was well aware of was that if I let this ceremony take place, then my life would be forever tied to Vladimier's. That was simply the way this type of