{"id":2994,"date":"2013-12-28T16:48:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T20:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.childrenofdarkness.com\/?p=2994"},"modified":"2016-04-09T01:38:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T01:38:53","slug":"the-invitations-are-sent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/the-invitations-are-sent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invitations Are Sent…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"merida-armand-invitations\"<\/a>Just got our copy of the invitations that were sent out. \u00a0Elegant, beautifully scripted, in the colors my bride had wished for. \u00a0Everything seems perfect. \u00a0I am very excited to take Merida as my wife, she’s my heart’s desire and my love for her burns eternal. \u00a0I hope she doesn’t get too nervous… its only 500+ names on our guest list. \u00a0Everything is in motion, and the date approaches quickly. \u00a0I hope that Va’lis makes it and that they squash whatever has been vexing them and he understands that whatever Merida tells me in confidence as my wife, I keep to myself. \u00a0We keep no secrets from each other… \u00a0we’re truly in love.I feel completely elated at this magical time in my life.\u00a0 I thought for long that I was unworthy of love, for the lovers of my past had rejected me.\u00a0 And who would want me with my sorted past? It is why the decision to marry Bianca so many centuries ago was made.\u00a0 I guess all this time I had been hiding from allowing myself to be open to love again — the sting of it all still so gravely felt — and Bianca had been the perfect excuse to do so.\u00a0 For her as well, she who has forever been in love with Marius, needed a way to hide from making herself open to love again.\u00a0 Now that I am past that dark time in my life, I think Bianca sees that I have found my true love and its definitely prompting her to discover herself.\u00a0 It is why she’s requested the divorce, I presume.<\/p>\n

But still I am heartbroken at the centuries that have passed alongside Bianca — am I to never have her again?\u00a0 She couldn’t make decisions without consorting her husband, which allowed her a form of checks and balances in the businesses she created.\u00a0 But now, we’re in a new era and a man’s isn’t as needed in such respect.\u00a0 She made the decision about the store purely without me.\u00a0 I will admit, it did anger me.\u00a0 But I came around. I understand now, she wants her independence.\u00a0 I just didn’t think it meant she wanted it from me as well.<\/p>\n

I am slowly coming to terms with it all, knowing that Merida will be my one and only wife — at least for the foreseeable future — is something I’ve quite learned to get accustomed to. I no longer hold on to the fears I had about it not working out, would I be alone then?\u00a0 My love with her does burn eternal, and I am secure in that now.\u00a0 When I see her, as crazy and anxious as she sometimes get, I see nothing but pure love… the love she has for me and I for her. I fall deeper in love with her every single day.<\/p>\n

~ Armand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just got our copy of the invitations that were sent out. \u00a0Elegant, beautifully scripted, in the colors my bride had wished for. \u00a0Everything seems perfect. \u00a0I am very excited to take Merida as my wife, she’s my heart’s desire and my love for her burns eternal. \u00a0I hope she doesn’t get too nervous… its only … Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4],"tags":[80,147,176],"class_list":["post-2994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armand-de-romanus","category-character-journals","tag-armand-merida","tag-public-events","tag-vamps-lair","infinite-scroll-item","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6033,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions\/6033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tlp-guild.com\/uo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}