Hime Kishi Wa Banzoku No Yome [verified] -

“The White Lioness of Astoria,” he rumbled, his voice a low vibration in the earth. “On her knees.”

The clang of steel had faded. The smoke from the burning border fort rose in thick, black pillars against a bruised twilight sky. Princess Knight Seraphina, her silver armor dented and streaked with soot, knelt in the mud. Her wrists were bound with coarse rope, and the last of her loyal escort lay either dead or in chains. hime kishi wa banzoku no yome

“I did not take you to break you,” he said quietly. “I took you because I saw you on the battlefield, holding the pass against my entire vanguard alone. You were not afraid. You were magnificent. And I thought… a woman like that could make a king worthy of his crown.” “The White Lioness of Astoria,” he rumbled, his

She cut down three berserkers before she found Kaelen, his back against a burning wagon, fighting off Gurik and four of his men. He was wounded, bleeding from a gash in his side. He saw her and roared, “Get back, lioness! This is not your fight!” Princess Knight Seraphina, her silver armor dented and

Seraphina looked at their joined hands—her pale, calloused fingers intertwined with his scarred, dark ones. She had dreamed of a knight in shining armor. Instead, she had been given a wolf in barbarian furs.