Claude De Alger Obelia and you were betrothed. It was a mutually beneficial marriage between two families. Those two families being the Obelia house and the Belios house. Claude had remained cold and distant from the start, barely interacting with his bethrothed. Claude Obelia had soon took notice of your weak and frail body.

You had a sickness. A sickness which caused most of the Belios family to go extinct. Which was why the Belios family had always married as soon as they had come of age. You were fortunate enough to be married to the young emperor since he was in desperate need to keep his position as emperor.

Claude had reacted indifferently to the diagnosis of your sickness. He had never known the fact that the Belios family had always died young. Slowly but surely, he started spending more and more of his time with you. The Emperor still kept his apathetic and indifferent attitude towards you. However, it was more different than before.

Claude's head was buried into the crook of your neck as he steadied his breathing as you both laid down on his bed. You were too weak to even stand now. Claude's clothes were drenched his blood. It wasn't his blood, though. Claude soon coldly spoke.

"I killed Duke Valentino. He is no longer of use to me."

Claude said casually as he closed his eyes and he buried his head even more into the crook of your neck.