SILVER-HAIRED
Chapter 197: The Story Of Fire And Ice {18}

Chapter 197: The Story Of Fire And Ice {18}

"Princess Alice was the key to that, an unrequited love from him to her would cause the chain he was willing to forge to divert the misfortune because her destiny was blackened, she was the perfect candidate, but it was harder than it took to divert such misfortune smite by the Mother goddess, Olivia’s death was meant to be the end of your misfortune, and then you would have been freed but..."

I shook my head. "I told him not to marry her.... because of me..."

"Yes to no longer make you hurt he took a risk to end the engagement with Princess Alice and sought another way to divert the Misfortune but a curse so strong cannot be contained and thus what happened to you that night"

"It’s all my fault," I said in a whisper as my eyes trembled.

"Magnus couldn’t bear to see you suffer for a curse that was meant for only him so he did the ultimate sacrifice"

"No," I said as my breath became shaken.

"His life in exchange for your freedom"

"No" I broke into tears.

"Believe me, Lady Sylvia this was his choice and his alone, you do not need to blame yourself, everything he did was for you... but such act of taking the misfortune all himself resulted in his soul being destroyed"

That was why I didn’t feel him anymore, that was why I felt darkness, even if the body dies the soul was meant to remain, either to ascend to heaven or fall into the line of reincarnation, I read about that once. And now because of me, Cedric was forever gone, because he was protecting me.

"His trial in the Mortal Realm was meant to end with his soul still intact, but now everything changed," Beowulf said sadly.

I pulled my knees to my chest as I cried harder, I felt Mint’s hand on my shoulder, only my cries and sob echoed in my chambers and the sound of the pouring rain outside.

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I watched the scene with sad eyes, the sudden reminiscing feeling I felt, it was strong and all our times in the Mortal Realm played in my head.

"Magnus’ sacrifice in the Mortal Realm broke the curse and your misfortune just like I planned it would be," Mother says. "And knowing who you’re, I knew you would never bend to the law keeping you away from him. This is why when it was planned for you to marry Lawrence, you saw reason"

The scene changed.

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"About what the officials decided..." Emperor Lawrence began.

"Marriage to a Silver-Haired is what’s best for the Empire, your heirs should be pure blood warlocks, that is what The past Emperor would have wanted" I answered before he could go on.

Lawrence frowned. "I know for a fact that arranged marriage is made by the higher-ups, no other has a say in the matter"

"Yes which is why the marriage will happen"

"No" he cut me off, his serious gaze on me. "I expected you not to agree to this," he said.

I huffed at his words which were rather rude of me but I didn’t care.

"Would my voice have mattered?" I began a little loud that caught others’ attention. "If I had said NO then would it have mattered?"

"Sylvia" he began but I didn’t let him, it was high time I set myself loose.

"We live in a world where Silver-Haired are treated beneath a diamond rather than the jewels they truly are. You fixed us on marriage you all so please... either we find love or we find hate" I looked towards Camille but she looked away.

"Some of us find love" My gaze to Danette, her hand on her round stomach, then it fell on Dalton beside her. "And we get hate in return from the ones we love".

Dalton frowned before he looked away.

"Some of us are too late to even approach such feelings", my gaze on Mother. "And then we end up regretting it for the rest of our lives", A tear fell in one of her eyes.

"And when we find love, respect, and a soul... it gets taken away in a snap. It gets torn from you like it never did matter," My gaze back to Lawrence who looked at me with so much intensity.

"I was taken from my family... It was my duty... I was married off to a man I never knew... It was my duty... I was expected to represent and do what was expected of me... It was duties... but then I fell in love, duties were damn but yet they were still held above all graces... but that love, that love broke all that"

"I once told you it was either laws or your happiness but seems like the laws won," I add in disdain. "What is all this... some kind of trial by fire!" I yelled, saying that right now something struck me, as a deep feeling ran through me.

’You will learn Yelena... You will learn to respect the laws of your people’ at the unknown voice in my head I shook my head, I felt dizzy all of a sudden. What was that voice and who did it belong to? The power that came from it.

’Love will destroy you, all you need is your duties, all you will ever need is a partner and not a soulmate, a partner you would perform your duties with... all you should think about is your people and your Realm’

"Sylvia" Lawrence said, holding onto me so that I wouldn’t fall, I moved my gaze to him.

’No I will not!’ this was another voice and it was stronger and braver, it sounded like mine?

"No," I said, he frowned.

’I choose love because when there is love there is hope, I choose love because I love my people and that happiness is what everyone needs... I found love and that freed me... I do not care what you think’

"I will not marry you", at my confession the clamorous thunder stroke.

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