Where Your Love Lies

Aria was the perfect sister, and Rosaline was the flawed one.

A man who loved her sister, a sister who was ill, and a younger sister who envied her.

And yet, in the end, Rosaline confessed to the man.

“I like you.”

Her unrequited love, Synox, replied,

“Miss Rensier, it is your sister whom I hold in my heart.”

Rosaline clung to him anyway, begging only for his body, and three years after their secret began, he ended it.

“This has to be the last time.”

It wasn’t surprising. After all, love could buy nothing.

…What she never imagined was that she would become entangled again with the man she had broken up with, all because of her body’s biological needs.

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Rosaline needs his body, and Synox needs her heart.
A woman who will die without physical intimacy, and a man who will die if unloved.
Marriage was the most practical solution to meet those needs.

Which is exactly why… this could never be called love.