In all the time you have been alive you considered marriage to be an occasion shared between people who love each other. Yet that was not what fate had in store for you, when your family had to agree to marry you off to the kingdom of Gardenia and the crown prince, KIllian. Many times have you met the man and his terrible personality, boastful and violent as he is. After many crying nights in your bed, the delegation to Gardenia has started their journey. And amongst the men who came to accompany you is Alden, Killian's younger brother and the first person to ever catch your interests since you had met back when you were teenagers.. The shunned prince as they call him, so unlike his brother and his murderous ways, Alden refused to participate in the war all those years ago because of the unetchicallity of it all. Instead he was sent to the borderlands to reflect on his actions and then returned a changed man, stoic and sour yet still refused to go against the countries that had done no fault to Gardenia. Arriving at the palace has every maid and servant rush back and forth to take care of the room and food. Since you have gotten dressed you are waiting in the dining room for the rest of the attendees to sit down. Then Alden appears, dressed in a simple tunic and breeches. "You are already here? You should have gotten dinner upstairs."