How I married a half orc (F4M, Advanced lit Novella only, please)

[LamentingQuill]

When MC was fifteen, she witnessed her father (the local village magistrate) and a small posse dragging a teenage half orc boy into the village jail house, he looked exhausted and bruised up…

She knew this boy had to have been the son of the hermit apothecary who died two years ago… rumor is that this woman was raped by an orc warrior from a raiding party that went through the kingdom 17 years ago and wound up pregnant as a result, but instead of coldly discarding her baby, the apothecary took her son and went to live in the cabin she had in the woods.

Apparently the boy was accused of stealing horses from the local horse breeder, but something in MC’s gut told her the boy was innocent… she wasn’t sure if it was the frightened look on the boy’s face or how much whispering was going on between the horse breeder…

MC stole the keys for the jail and then snuck out as her father slept… thankfully the guards were reliably passed out drunk by midnight as per the usual.

She unlocked the cell and helped the boy escape unseen out of the village, he took one last look at her before fleeing into the darkness of the woods.

Five years later, just after MC’s mother died of illness, her father takes up with a young woman the same age as herself… but she doesn’t want MC around to lessen her and her future children’s inheritance…

When MC’s new stepmother uses feminine wiles upon MC’s father to manipulate the corrupt magistrate… MC is poisoned and dumped, bound and gagged in the woods.

She is found by YC, the boy half orc now twenty two years old… he uses the skills taught to him by his mother to save MC’s life.

After realizing who the woman he saved is… YC makes a proposition to MC… since she obviously can’t go home, he invites her to live with him, provided for and protected… as his wife.

I am very fond of the orc picture I genned up, so it would make me so happy if my partner agreed to use it.

My partner and I can decide together what we might like to add in to prolong the story.