Plans were made and promises were broken, but this is what one must do when survival is on the line.
Ahead sat Darde's brother-in-law, full of life and exuding magical radiation oh so common for mages, there was no arrogance on his angered face, while his tone contained a flurry of questions that he threw at his sister's husband one by one. Which Darde was forced to answer, including certain lies he weaved in between.
"You… I knew she shouldn't have married someone as weak as you." These words hurt, and they earned a level of anger from the said sister, who looked at her older brother with a hint of derision as she said. "Brother, please speak carefully, he is my everything, the other half, if you curse him, you are cursing me." Nerissa reprimanded her brother, who might appear only in his mid-thirties, but his true age was far above Nerissa, there was a difference of decades.
"Nerissa, your tantrums won't work this time, not when your life is in danger due to him."
