Contractually Yours: The Billionaire's Unlikely Bride
Chapter 91: MARIAGE INITIATION CEREMONY EXPLAINED

Chapter 91: Chapter 91: MARIAGE INITIATION CEREMONY EXPLAINED

Once Briar saw that she had gotten the attention of Logan, she started explaining herself as she caressed his palms playfully.

"Hubby, I forgot to mention to you when I returned from seeing my brother," she started with that since that’s where everything started.

"You see, in our village, or our tribe, we have certain rituals and traditions we follow, whether we live or don’t live in the village anymore.

Of course, others choose to not follow such traditions. However, I am a bit different. I was half-raised by the village’s spiritualist. The one who always gives me the herbs. She is very strict when it comes to these traditions."

Up to this point, Logan nodded, accepting this part as he knew the spiritualist that she was talking about. Although Briar knew herbs, it shouldn’t be to the extent of knowing too much. There was someone behind her, and the person that Selena sought when she came across Briar.

It was because of that spiritualist that Briar got a chance to be adopted back into his family.

So, if he was to add that plus tradition, then it would make sense that Briar needed to follow them to the t without questions.

"These traditions basically apply to the female side and barely the male. Anyway, when we are young and maidens, we are to pierce our ears just once. If you had noticed it before, I used to have one piercing," she revealed one of the traditions, making Logan curious.

"So, when you get married, the piercing changes? Is that why you have two?" he couldn’t help but ask.

He might not have noticed much of what she was doing before they got married, but after marriage, especially after the Selena saga, he had been keeping an eye on her. He knew her favorite colors, her favorite panties and so forth.

So, noticing the piercings wasn’t that difficult.

Briar never expected that Logan would have noticed that, so when she heard that, her eyes lit up and she nodded happily, answering, "Yes. When we get married, we receive a second piercing, and a female elder in the family does this. In my case, my godmother, Mammy Adonai, did it for me since my mother was taking care of my brother.

When we have a child, we receive the last piercing. So, in the village, it is quite easy to see who is still a maiden, married, married without a child or with a child. You just need to check the ears and the truth will be laid in front of you.

In the case of having a child, getting pregnant signifies that. Once a woman gets pregnant, the third piercing is received. When a maiden loses her chastity without getting married, she still must carry herself as a married woman. That should be the tradition, however, most women don’t follow that. Who in these days would parade herself as unchaste?" she chuckled dryly at how absurd that tradition was.

Even Logan found it ridiculous. In this old age, there was no such thing as unchaste. The majority of people married found each other when they were no longer virgins. So why follow such a tradition?

However, he was happy though. Thanks to that tradition, he would be Briar’s first man.

"So, if a woman has a miscarriage, would she not wear her third earring?" Logan asked something differently, as he was worried about this.

There were no guarantees that a pregnancy might be carried to full term. It wasn’t either the father’s or mother’s fault when such a thing happened. It would be unfair if she lost her status because of such a case.

A mysterious glint flickered in her eyes that he failed to see before she answered, "That won’t strip her of that, right? It is not her fault. Besides, who can be sure that she won’t conceive again?"

After answering that, she continued with the explanation.

"When we are maidens, we aren’t allowed to dress too much, as that is believed to attract unwanted trouble from people with ill intentions. When a woman is married, she can dress for herself. And one of the ways is the waist beads. They add charm to a woman’s looks. At the same time, they are an addition that every woman must have and mustn’t be discarded unless there is a reasonable reason to do so. The waist beads are blessed by the deities and can only be given by the spiritualist. They also resemble blessing of the womb," with a shy expression on her face, she explained this part, stealing peeks at Logan.

When Logan heard that, his gaze darkened as he looked at the beads that had been tormenting him for a very long time.

So, what was their meaning?

He kind of like what they represent.

Although he was forty, he was still young at heart. He didn’t mind having Briar give him two or three children. His family has a lot of money. He could afford them.

Briar, sensing the hot gaze Logan was giving him, nearly danced around in joy but still contained herself as she continued.

"Lastly, the part that I have forgotten to tell you about is about the dowry the husband must give to the wife. The anklet. I must get one from you. It shows that I belong to you," as she talked about the anklet, she was feeling hot as she found herself too brazen to say something like that directly to him.

It was as if she was asking him to mark her, tag her and collar her. Let everyone know that she belongs to him.

While she was feeling shy, Logan’s throat had gone completely dry at this point. The waist beads explanation had already affected him and now as he thought of that ankle with his tag, he just wanted to push her down and make her completely his.

However, he held himself.

Now that he knew that there was the anklet to mark her, he wanted to get that first and, on that day, completely devour her and see if the waist beads were as miraculous as she said they were.

Briar, on the other side, continued to explain shyly everything, completely unaware of the horrors in her husband’s mind.

By the time she finished explaining, she was too shy to even look at him.

After uttering a good night, she bundled herself on her side and pretended to sleep.

Logan, who had been left aside, chuckled lightly as he pulled her into his embrace.

With a light kiss on top of her head, he whispered, "Goodnight," before closing his eyes, his mind gearing and working overtime.

After all, he has an anklet to customize.