Complete Confinement

What she desired was freedom. What he desired was an heir.

To obtain what they wanted instead of love, they began a precarious marriage.

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“I only need an heir. I have no need for a wife.”

“I, too, have no desire for love. All I want is freedom.”

She intended to give him the child he wanted and then leave to find her freedom.

But as time passed, what she felt was not a yearning for freedom, but love for him.

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“Don’t leave me. I… I want to be confined by you.”