The Saintess and the Demon King novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: After
They were married in the Cathedral of Corvane at sunset, three months later, with the doors open to the street.
Wenna read the vows from the altar.
Torvin cried so hard that his captains gave him a handkerchief.
The Marshal gave Isabeau away, because she had asked him to, and he walked her up the aisle with his bare head bowed.
When Veyron put the ring on her finger, the light in the great window cracked and re-formed itself into a rose.
Nobody called it a miracle.
They called it Tuesday.
By midnight the feast was loud enough to rattle the spire, and Veyron took her hand under the table and said, "Come to bed, wife."
"The cake."
"Torvin will eat it."
"The speeches."
"Torvin will give them."
She laughed and let him pull her away.
They didn't go to the bedchamber.
He led her down the Citadel stairs and out through the garden gate, into the white orchard, where every blossom glowed faintly in the dark and the grass was soft as a bed.
The lord's old garden had been burnt black.
Now it ran from the Citadel wall to the river, an ocean of luminous flowers, and the air smelled sweet as honey.
"You planned this," she said.
"I might have."
He stopped under a tree, and turned her, and kissed her.
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