Chapter 416. Married Passionate Encounter

Lexcis Aeden Revia

"One day you won't be forced to kill anyone. We'll get an executioner. If anyone does something so wrong that they need to be punished by death, we'll let them handle it." I reassure her, pulling her closer into an embrace.

"But that's it. Who gets to decide it's punishable by death? And why? I'm getting in my head, and I know it but there need to be rules for this."

I press a fleeting kiss to her shoulder, "There are rules."

"Wait. Really?" She swirls around on my lap to face me wholly.

"If you'd ever care enough about the rules to pick up one of the books in the castle's library, you'd find there are a million rules."

"Ah, right." She frowns. "One of them being that bastards aren't worthy of life. Or what was it? They're not worthy of a title, grounds, or gold. The necessities for someone living in Revia.&quo