<div style="text-align: center">At his compliment, the kind she has heard from many men and women and fairly failed to touch her, she has smiled. Hearing it from Valentine was different. Perhaps she liked him, but truth was, it sounded genuine from him. While everyone would try to make it sound like a big deal, he said it nonchalantly without putting any unnecessary expression to it and she believed that more than someone constantly trying to get that attention on them by complimenting her."Thank you and we appreciate you taking this seriously."<br/>
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Once he mentioned bluntly what happened last night, Ellanore let out a long sigh and looked ahead of them. "Well.. I would hardly call us lovers, because there has been everything but love." she stated and shook her head when he said that if there was ever a need to remove him to tell him. "I hope it won't be necessary. My mother has been having doubts about his advances towards me. She thinks he's doing this for the position he'll have in the future, while my father was friends for some time with Varus' father. However, I am scared to believe my mother, because the more the time passes, the more I feel like everything he does is a grand gesture and shows it off to family and, if possible, other nobles and the public. They all think we are the real deal, but they don't see everything. It's not like they need to know, anyway." Ellanore stated.<br/>
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Then she shook her head and smiled, as if she were comforting herself. "Ah, what am I saying. Royal weddings were always about politics and alliances, it's rare for it to be like with my parents, where there was actual love invested in their relationship. It's for the interest of the prosperous reign over Nuverus and our race." though her words were true, they stung. To settle for something so little. To tolerate her husband until she cannot handle it anymore. She wondered how other rulers of arranged marriages dealt with this.​</div>