Binding Love: Romance

By Denis Daniel

         True, strong and pure love. The kind of love that can cure and destroy; the kind of love that’s almost like a fantasy. The love you only find in stories and fairy tales, is it real? Is it possible for someone to love somebody else unconditionally, and what is the cost for such commitment?

 

         Rosalyn and David were born in a world where that kind of love was long lost. Nobody believed in that kind of love anymore, most people believed it was just something people wrote about to make themselves feel good, but that kind of love never existed. Some believed it was a curse, that it was something people endured because it came with so much pain once gone. They lived in a small town in times of dukes and duchesses; in a realm far away.

         They weren’t like other teenagers; they were different, and so was their lives. Despite their lives being so different, practically opposite from each other, they had one thing in common. There was this force pulling them together. How? They couldn’t explain. But things were more complicated than that, it was not easy for them to meet just like that. David was just a common worker, an ordinary boy, but Rosalyn was much like a princess, a daughter of a rich man. He could never accept a person like David for his daughter.

         What would David and Rosalyn do? Was true love enough for them to be together, if it was even real? Or were they going to give up like everybody else? If not, what would it take to convince Rosalyn's father that it was impossible to separate them? To prove that they were meant to be?

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookRix
• Release date: Jan 9, 2021
• ISBN: 9783739608310

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TITLE

AUTHOR:

DENIS DANIEL

BINDING LOVE 

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 10

CHAPTER 11

CHAPTER 12

CHAPTER 13

CHAPTER 14

CHAPTER 15

CHAPTER 16

CHAPTER 17

CHAPTER 18

CHAPTER 19

CHAPTER 20

CHAPTER 21

CHAPTER 22

CHAPTER 23

CHAPTER 24

CHAPTER 25

CHAPTER 26

CHAPTER 27

CHAPTER 28

CHAPTER 29

CHAPTER 30

CHAPTER 31

CHAPTER 32

CHAPTER 33

CHAPTER 34

CHAPTER 35

CHAPTER 36

CHAPTER 37

CHAPTER 38

CHAPTER 39

CHAPTER 40

CHAPTER 41

CHAPTER 42

CHAPTER 1

ONCE UPON A TIME

There was screams, loud screams, screams of agony and excruciating pain.

Two different women were giving birth to two children at the exact same time. These weren’t twins. They were better, because the time they were born was precisely the same; that was a sign that the birth of these two children was meant for something extraordinary to happen.

These children were born in times of dukes and duchess, in a realm faraway. It was a boy and a girl, and their parents lived in a small town. Despite being born at the same time, nothing between them was the same; their lives were very different.

Because one was more fortunate than the other; that was the girl. She was a daughter of a noble man in town, whom everyone respected. And that was the time he finally got a baby after a long time; and that was his pride. She was his pride and joy.

Lots of respected people came to visit and congratulate him and see the beautiful girl. She was truly beautiful, even with her little baby face everyone could see her beauty. She was admirable and adorable, everyone loved her the very second they saw her. And automatically, she was famous already. Even before she could open her eyes, or even before she could recognize her own parents.

The boy on the other hand his parents were happy and proud all the same. But there was a difference, only a few people knew that he was born. Nobody saw how beautiful he was. In fact his parents could hardly afford clothes to cover him. They dressed him in patchwork, for it was all they had.

He wasn’t famous, and not so many people cared if he was born. In fact his parents were worried about the kind of life he was going to have. Since they didn’t have enough to provide a good life they wanted him to have. Because they were just cheap labors of the noble man, the girl’s father. And their boss wasn’t very generous.

So they lived in the small house that they were offered by their boss, only because the mother of the boy was an excellent cook.

The girl got lots of gifts from all kinds of people. Whether it was clothes or things to play with, and blessings; she got all those. She was quite blessed you might say. She had everything and more were coming. Since her father wasn’t just a rich man but also a respected leader, so whether it was a business man or a politician, all came.

The boy unfortunately, was born the same day and it was just outside the rich man’s house, few steps away on the right. Where everyone could just pass by and congratulate the mother, but it wasn’t that way. Instead while other workers congratulated the mother of the boy, the boss sent a message that they were supposed to be quiet and that noises were not allowed.

And they weren’t supposed to walk around while his guest were still there. So it was like the odds weren’t in boy’s favor, because people stopped visiting him. They were afraid they could get fired. His parents however, didn’t really care if there was someone coming or not. All that mattered to them was that, they were going to do everything in their power to make sure he was going to have a good life.

There was no day off with this man. He wanted his workers to work all the time, and even when you get sick, he wanted to you to be there. If you wouldn’t be, he was going to find another person to replace you.

So three days after the boy was born, his mother went back to work. Only because she was the chief chef of the rich man, so she could give instructions to other workers from home, through a young girl who worked with her in the kitchen.

And because the rich man was very busy with his guests and he was in a good mood, he wasn’t checking on anything. And everyone had a relief because of that, including the boy’s mother.

The rich man was a harsh and hot tempered man, every one of his workers was afraid of him. He wasn’t approachable and definitely not friendly. Though other rich people thought it was important, in order to be able to make people respect him. Besides, he was an important person in the town, everyone expected him to act that way.

The village had lots of improvement because of him. Almost everyone had a job, though they weren’t very profitable, but still, could make people go through with life.

His wife was completely a different person. She wasn’t as scary as her husband, she was friendly and lovely. She loved all her workers, and from time to time she gave them bonus, adding to the salary at the end of the month, when her husband was distracted with his leadership.

People respected her too. But in a different way, not out of fear but out of love. They loved her, and somehow they wished that she was the leader, instead of her husband. But she always respected and loved her husband, so she respected and obeyed her husband, even though he was harsh to everyone, even to her.

She knew the reason why. He was raised in that kind of life, so she understood why he was very harsh. His father was a rich business man and a tyrant. He was cruel to people and his own family; he used to beat his mother as well. So him being harsh, was the effect of his Father’s actions.

He being harsh but taking care of his family was an improvement from his father’s attitudes and she was thankful for it. The mother of the girl sent gifts to the mother of the boy among lots of gifts her girl received, and the boy’s parents couldn’t thank her enough for her kindness. At least their boy had something good, even though there was nothing they could afford to buy for him.

She was too kind, and she didn’t choose who to show kindness. She treated every one equally, and that’s what made her loved so much.

Both boy’s parents were very kind. Though they didn’t have much to offer, that didn’t stop them to share what they had with others. Nobody loved them or noticed them, to people they were just workers of a rich man.

Somehow people felt sorry for them, because they worked in a house of a cold hearted man. But it wasn’t that way with them, it was different. They liked to be there because the wife of their boss was very kind and treated them well. And also the rich man never bothered anybody, unless they did something wrong. So it wasn’t as bad as it looked from people’s eyes.

As the matter of fact, the boy’s parents were happy because both of them could work; the mother worked in the kitchen as chef, and her husband worked for the farm of the rich man. It was an exhausting job and long, from morning to evening. Actually most men worked in farms, and women stayed home taking care of little children, and older ones joined their fathers. Since that was their first child, the father went to the farm on his own until the boy could become old enough to go with him.

Trying to find the names of their children; these two families thought of the best name they could find, and which were suitable for their children.

CHAPTER 2

Jonathan, what do you think we should call our girl? the wife of the rich man asked her husband one evening, when they were having dinner. Even though she knew that he wouldn’t have the slightest idea, she did it just out of concern for her husband. So that he wouldn’t be so surprised when he found out that his girl already has a name, and he wasn’t informed.

I don’t know Jane, did you have a name in your mind? her husband asked off minded, as if it was something that didn’t concern him at all.

He never thought of anything other than his work, much less thinking of a name to give to a baby. Yes, she was his daughter and he loved her, but giving her a name was her mother’s duty.

Well, I thought of Rose or Rosalyn like a beautiful flower. the girl’s mother explained to her husband very pleased with her choice of name.

I think that will suit her. the girl’s father agreed curtly, he was never interested in anything else. If it’s not politics or money, it wasn’t his problem.

He put the fork down and head out of dinning, leaving his wife there by herself.

But that wasn’t surprising to her because she was used to that by now. There was no any conversation she made that seemed to interest her husband, and this was one of them. He wasn’t even interested in talking about his own daughter. Sometimes she even wondered if he married her just because he was told to, but if he could he wouldn’t have gotten married to her at all.

But the thing is, what’s done is done. She was married to a cold hearted man, and she was supposed to keep up with him for the rest of her life. It was really sad though, how she never got to know true love. The one she was reading in books when she was younger, instead ending up with him. Someone she could never understand fully. She could never know when he was happy or sad. She only knew when he was angry.

He was always cold and unreachable. She tried to be a good wife, sensitive, caring and listen to everything he said but that didn’t help. He always stayed the same. Unfortunately, she ended up believing that true love is just a fantasy that she used to hear about and read about, but doesn’t exist. Never existed.

The boy’s parents thought of the name to give their child too. And they thought of David, the strong, courageous and kind king back in the old days, and they wanted their boy to be just like him.

Richard, David is a beautiful name, his mother said happily to his father because he was the one with the idea.

Oh, Rebecca, it’s because our son is very handsome, that’s why I chose a beautiful name for him. he stretched his arm to pull his wife close while they were sitting on the couch, after a long day of hard work and the boy was asleep.

Well, that will be a perfect name for him then, Rebecca willingly and swiftly moved under her husband’s strong arms and rested her head on his chest just under his chin. There was no doubt that they truly loved each other, even after they have gotten a baby and exhaustion from hard work; they could still find time to comfort each other, it was obvious their love was still fresh. Unlike the girl’s parents these two knew what love is. What it was like to be in love, even though they went through trouble in the beginning, but they survived.

So, the boy and the girl were called Rosalyn and David. They had a completely different life from each other.

Even the way they were raised was different. The girl could have anything she wanted, but the boy not much, in fact he learned to cultivate when he was still very young.

Well, even the way their parents lived with them was different. Rosalyn’s mother used to stay with her baby at home and watch over her all the time. She was with her baby almost all the time. But for David’s mother, it was different, she hardly had time for her son because she always had lots of works to do. So she had to leave her son with the young girl that worked with her in the kitchen, like half a day. And when she got a break, that was time she would see her son, and in the evening.

It was a good thing that David wasn’t a stubborn child. He would stay with any one, as long as he had food to eat. He was a lovely child. All the workers liked him, and almost everyone wanted to stay with him. From time to time they did, and that made it very easy for his mother and father.

They could work and at the same time take care of him without any problem. And it was that way almost all his first few years of growing up. He would, and he was used to be with everyone.

As for the girl, she had lots of maids attending for her. Even though her mother was with her, still her father assigned maids to make sure she would get anything she wanted, when she wanted it. He didn’t want to hear his child even once, cry; and as he wanted it was that way.

CHAPTER 3

She was a very special girl, she smiled at anyone she saw. She cried only when she was sick, and apart from that, she always smiled. Even a little thing could make her laugh. Lots of people, the ones who saw her, said she resembled her mother and nothing from her father, apart from the look a little.

As the days were passing, Rosalyn and David grew up. They started walking and talking, and somehow they grew up to have the same personality. Even though they didn’t know each other or even see each other, still people who met them wondered. They were surprised how identical they were! Though it was only people from outside who noticed it, their parents had no clue about that.

And people didn’t talk about it, for it was forbidden to compare a cheap child with the child of most respected and rich person in town. So they kept it to themselves and just watched and hoped that things would change when they grow up. After all, they were just children who knew nothing. Anything can happen on the process of growing up.

Days moved to months, and months to years. And as the time passed, the more the two kids grew. The girl grew to be like a princess, and the boy was just like any other kids around; but their personality didn’t change, they were still nice and sweet. And when they started talking their first word was water, both of them said that same word when they started talking. But not many people managed to notice that, and the ones who noticed kept it to themselves.

They watched to see what was going to happen, because they never saw anything like that before. Two children born with different parents, but acting like identical twins. The unusual identical twins, because even identical twins has their differences.

The problem was that they had completely different lives, so comparing them was just theoretical nothing seemed to go anywhere. They would never have met, not with the life they lived, so the people thought.

It was no use to pay attention to such thing. And it was that way every one eventually came to forget about the girl and the boy, and they lived without paying attention to them either.

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While growing Rosalyn had lots of visitors; she didn’t even know most of them and they would bring her lots of gifts, she had too many gift that she had a room full of dolls and other childish things, and she could hardly use even half of them.

Many people would think that she would grow up to be a spoiled little brat, but it was completely different with her; she never really cared how many things she was given. She always seemed like she was looking for something invincible, something only her knew what it was.

And she was quite good from her heart, and she wasn’t the kind of child like the rich kids are. The power to do what she wanted never really seemed to get into her. Because in all those things she always felt like something was missing, not even she knew what it was, may be that the reason she never paid attention to anything.

David by the way, learnt to work and by the age of five he helped his mom and dad with little things like, cleaning their little house and other days he could escort his father to the farm; he was quite a persistent boy, even though he could come very tired and fall asleep right away. That didn’t stop him from wanting to go the next day.

He didn’t have any dolls or things to play with, his play ground was his mom’s kitchen or his father’s farm; he never complained why he didn’t have anything to play with, or why he was with his parents all the time, everything was just fine to him.

Both children were happy with their lives, David felt like he had everything he wanted with him, and he needed nothing else just his father and mother, the two people he wanted to see every day and spend time with; that’s what made his day exciting and whole.

But things were different with Rosalyn, because she always wondered, not in a sad way, no, she was happy with her life too, but she felt something was missing; because she was always surrounded with maids, and she was always locked inside playing with her toys and dolls and sometimes she got tired of them. She wanted to talk to a real person and play like other kids her own age.

But that chance didn’t seem to come, because she never got out she had people visiting her, but she never visited anyone and she wondered, what really the problem was; why couldn’t she get out.

With all her mother’s kindness and goodness though, she never went against her husband command unnecessarily, and she never saw any harm Rosalyn staying in all the time because she was raised that way with her parents. She got out only when she was old enough, and that was what she was going to do to her daughter.

She had her teacher coming at home, teaching her how to read and calculations and history and many other things. And that was the only time Rosalyn enjoyed, because she could ask questions and learn and read stories; that was the time she actually got to hear about the outside world, outside her castle.

She was very close with her teacher and after every class she would tell her something about outside world, like telling her about rivers, and forests, and mountains, and rains and so many other things.

With her young age it was surprising how clever and understanding she was; and she was so curious to see all those things by herself, and because she was so interested in studying she could catch up things very fast and that made her father very proud,

By the age of seven, she already knew more things than she was supposed to for her age, she surprised everyone. Her father’s respect grew through the town that he raised his daughter well, and at the age of seven she was clever than any other children her own age in town.

David had a different life in his childhood, he could do anything he wanted, whether it was playing, or going to the woods; freedom was the one thing that he never asked for, but the good thing is he never abused his freedom.

He would help his parents every morning before he could go to play. And that helped his parents to trust him, though some days he wouldn’t get time to play because he was helping his parents with works, those days which there was lots of works, he never complained, he understood.

Considering his age, he was too wise for his own age, he seemed to see things differently not in a bad way, he just understood things like, his family’s condition he knew they were poor, and that was okay with him.

Unlike Rosalyn, David never went to school or even had a teacher. His parents knew how to read a little, and they never paid much attention to those things, because to them it was waste of money.

They could hardly afford enough for themselves, they had no plan of using it on something that won’t help their son in any way, so David learnt a little that his parents knew, but he was a clever boy, he managed to read quite well a little bit better than his parents.

At the age of eight David grew to be a brave, hardworking, and strong boy. Then Jonathan needed somebody to take care of the horses, he was looking for a stable boy; he didn’t want someone from outside. He wanted someone who could be around and not coming from far, most importantly someone he could trust or at least someone reliable.

CHAPTER 4;

Most of the people were scared to go and work there; because they heard that the worker will teach his girl to ride a horse as well. That means that person will take care of the horses and be a teacher.

And no kidding, that job was much tougher that it looked, because everyone knew how much Jonathan loved his girl. So that means if the teacher would make a mistake and let the girl get hurt or even a scratch, he would make him disappear and nobody was ready to risk that, so there was no volunteers.

Well, David on the other hand was not scared of him, in many ways, he