Rejected Bride: My Mysterious Sovereign Husband

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ing a sharp tremor through the water pressure to f

son, and I agreed to seal our marriage pact before the Tidal W

in the hall who had come to watch the spe

the core above our heads. The clan believes that those who b

ctivated by blood. Without this ring on my ring finger, the law wou

his chin slightly, exposing the four pale gill slits behind his neck in a half-heart

onight," Declan muttered, his eyes darting aw

. The malicious soundwaves churned the currents,

e tremor. "Tonight is our Blood-Oath night before the Wellspring. I

it Nautilus-a bioluminescent shell used by noble houses to project live voi

against his chest was a frail mermaid with flaxen curls-my stepsister,

d against Dominic's collarbone. "Brother Dominic, it is all my fault," she whis

ed glare toward the shell. "Kenna, Antonina is gravely ill and needs my

Antonina curved her lips into a smug,

deep breath, letting freezing seawater flush through m

ed off the basalt walls. "Dominic, do you think an oath b

rowing a tantrum, Kenna. You do not even have a Tide-Oath Ring. Aside from me, w

t too kind-hearted..." Antonina squeezed out two more p

faint, pure spark of primordial aurora light at my fing

ly. Dominic's roar echoed out. "

ldly, and drove my hidden ancestr

autilus exploded into powder under the wat

ringed outcast dared crush the Young Clan Lord's projection. Deep in my chest, the Remnant-the agonizing soul-thread left beh

king down at the frozen Declan with a voice l

ctively dropped downward. Without sparing him another glance, I flicked my tail fin, dragging my long sea-sil

artbeat, riding out the lingering ache in my bones-until a low, mocking chuckle ec

ed the bone dagger at my waist as a tall, broad-shouldered figure glided