A husband’s first and foremost job in a marriage is to protect and love his wife. // from Simon!
" is it?? " truth was, chantal simply would not know what anyone's job in marriage was aside from her own: to do as she was told and produce an heir. at least that was what she had been told for all her grooming for this very position. taken from her parents at a young age, made to refine herself in a few fine arts and how to carry herself regally, speak when only spoken to... it drove her mad. but there was no changing it from where she had stood, not when defiance was met with harsh and cruel punishment. " love does not seem... compatible with what i have been told of marriage, " she sighed. " not that i know much of the former either. mes matrones did not teach me of such things save to tell me they were not but fantasy... "