Chapter 4

"These are the servants that was sent by the Crown Prince, they are all well-trained to fulfill all your needs." 

The Butler arrived earlier inside my chamber together with these unfamiliar servants, all of them were looking like a doll standing with no emotion on their faces. 

Isn't it funny? To see how Hades created these servants just for me? Well, it's not like I don't know his purpose, he sent these servants to guard me and to report everything I am doing to him.

I tapped my fingers on the table, looking at them from head to their toes. 

All of them are exactly the same, from their emotions to their looks. I wonder what sort of families do they came from? 

"Is there anything you wanted to say my lady?" the Butler asked. 

I crossed my legs and observed them, each one of them should have at least one emotion to be seen. 

They're good at hiding, it's a 100% scale from one to ten that they would really betray me, so I need to choose someone that would either betray Hades or kill herself. 

I don't want to raise a stupid dog that would bark its owner, I want it to be a perfect being that would help me to start my revenge. 

I stopped my eyes on the second to the last lady. She was emotionless just like the rest, but her fingers are fidgeting. It was like she's telling me to pick her, pushing me to pull her and make her as my servant. 

I chuckled and snapped my fingers. "I'll choose that lady over there," I said and raised my finger on her direction. 

The Butler seems to not understand what I said. 

"Pardon me my lady, but the Crown Prince sent all these ladies to be your servants—"

I yawned making him stopped from talking. I gave him a cold stare before I let out a smile, to show him that it's fine. 

"You don't have to worry about it. I've been living in the manor with only one servant so I don't need as many as that," I said.

There was doubt on his expression when he left the chamber together with the other servants. 

The lady seems to not know how to speak, she was just standing without giving me any word or even a greeting. 

I rest my chin on my palm while giving her a long stare. 

"Aren't you going to speak?" I asked. 

She raised her head before she bowed. "Greetings your Highness, I am Fara Jeremiah. I will be your servant and will only follow your words even if it means dying in your stead." 

Her tone was calm yet I can feel her sincerity in every words she said. How come that this lady became a servant?

I gave her a warm smile. I think I had just picked a wolf instead of a dog. I never knew that raising a wolf would be this interesting. 

"I'm glad that I chose you, I've never been this contented since I came back." I saw how her eyes moved as if thoughts are playing inside her mind. 

"Pardon your Highness?" she asked with confusion visible on her eyes that made me chuckled. 

"I only have two rules for you as my servant Fara," I said with my lips parting to hide my grin. 

I stand up and adjusted my nightgown before sipping the tea from the teacup. Her eyes were following my movement as if she was examining and memorizing every moves I make. 

"First rule, your loyalty should only belong to me. I don't want you to follow any commands from others if it's not me even if it means betraying the one who sent you here, the Crown Prince right?" Upon hearing what I said, her emotions are playing with her making her shuddered with horror. 

I can only see her eyes avoiding mine, she does realized what I just said. That I already know about her purpose as my servant, but I'm not that heartless. I am already giving her a better purpose of living, not just as a servant who belongs to the Crown Prince, but as my servant with freedom. 

"Second, if you cannot follow my first rule then my second rule would be..." I paused for a moment to see her reaction and chuckled when I saw how afraid she was. 

"Kill yourself, that's my second rule. I don't want to have a soldier that will only betray me in the end, so better kill yourself if you cannot fulfill my rule number one." 

Her eyes blinked for a moment, biting her lips and playing with her fingers. She might be thinking of her decision, it's up to her though. I don't know what sort of offer did Hades had given to her since I don't exactly know her background, but it doesn't mean that I would play as a kind lady to raise such servant that will only betray me. 

"W-What do you mean by s-soldier your Highness?" she asked with stutter. 

I sat on the right side of the bed before crossing my legs forming a letter V in between my thighs. 

"Of course, this is a war. Power, money, law, and the throne are all weapons to extract the victory." 

She didn't seems to understand my point. She looks down before raising her head on my direction. 

"Why are you giving me such offer your Highness? I thought you love the Crown Prince? Why would you do such thing that would cause a war between the two of you?" she asked with confidence. 

I haven't said all of it but it seems like she understand everything from the start until the end. She's sharp, the sharper she is, the more it gets dangerous if she will betray me. 

"Love? I don't think it's appropriate to call it like that since my feelings has nothing to do with that word. I've already forgotten the day I've felt such thing, since I am no longer in love with him." I chuckled upon realizing that everything I did was because of that stupid word, the love that caused me to lose my humanity. 

I clapped my hands to wake her up from her thoughts. I know she's doubting, but it would be better for her to choose me because I know, I will win.

"You know what? In the game of chess, Queens are able to move wherever they like, but the Kings? They can only stay from one square at a time until they win or either they lose the game. They can't do anything because they are useless without its pieces. What I'm telling you is, Hades will never win against me so better choose me and trust me." 

It was a minute before she closed her eyes firmly and breathe heavily, I saw how her fists clenched before her aura became calm. 

"I am Fara Jeremiah your Majesty. I will be at your service," she said on bended knees. 

I smirked. "You've done well, Fara." 

My eyes roamed around the peaceful gazebo. The place seems to have a very caring gardener since it makes me feel like I am at home. 

"Hi." I heard the voice from my back. 

When I turned my head around, I saw him staring at my back and our eyes met when I looked at him. 

I smiled brightly. Honestly, I was feeling nervous and scared that he might not attend this meeting, with me. 

I was very reckless last night, to propose such embarrassing deal that would make me uncomfortable, but I can't lose this chance because it's either now or the chance will never come. 

I invited him to sit and tried to act normal in front of him. He stayed silent when he sat on the vacant chair in front of me, he rested his chin on his palm looking at me with no emotions in his eyes. 

I gulped when I felt his stare as if he's reading my mind. I can't stepped back from this moment, I no longer need to hide what I am thinking since in the past, I already committed an unforgivable sin. 

"Your Highness, what type of woman do you like as your wife?" I asked to start the conversation. 

His eyebrows rose before he crossed his arms. "I don't particularly like any woman," he answered.

As expected from him, he does really think that women are the same. 

"Then your Highness, are you into boys?" I asked confidently. 

"No." 

He answered very quickly like he was expecting me to asked that. How could he be so sharp? 

I coughed for a moment before I smiled from ear to ear. "How about me your Highness? Will I be able to pass as your wife?" I asked. 

He gave me a long cold stare before he answered. 

"You're my brother's fiancee."

I fidget my fingers to hide my embarrassment, I know it's a rejection but I can't show it to him that I'm disappointed. 

There's still time, I can still convinced him. 

"Will you believe me if I tell you that I don't love the Crown Prince?" I asked softly. 

He didn't gave any reaction, he stared longer before he shook his head lightly. 

I felt heavy inside me, he won't believe me either what I said is true or a lie. It won't be easy because of this rotten title on my head. 

The Crown Prince's fiancee. 

Yes, there's nothing new. I only have the upper hand in the past because of this title, the Crown Princess and Hades's Fiancee. 

I strive so hard to earn the power for Hades not giving myself a tiny care. I thought that if everything will be his, the Crown, the throne, the power as the next Emperor, I thought that I am part of it. 

But I was just a pawn in his game who wasn't able to step the last square to be a Queen, I never had the chance to stand beside him when he got the victory he wanted. 

I...,wasn't part of it.

"Your Highness, I will not stop from convincing you." Even if it means seducing you, I will do it just to have your heart and I will learn to love you too Pursues so that in the end, I will never have any regret of choosing what's best for my victory. 

I stand and bowed to give my farewell but I stopped when I heard what he said. 

"Give me a reason Talia, give me a reason that will push me to have you because if I do that, I will no longer think of you as his fiancee. Too bad I am much more dirty than him, owning you is very easy to me. I will... never let go of you."

When was it? When was the last time I felt this feeling? 

I bit my lower lip before giving him a smile, the most sincere smile I've let out since the day I was reborn again. 

 "There's only one reason your Highness," I paused when I remembered everything from the past. 

From when I first saw him to that night when he begged on me. All of it was the answer, it's just that I cannot tell everything to him. 

"Because you deserve everything your Highness, everything and I'm willing to do anything just to give everything to you because you are the most deserving man I've met since I was born." Since I was reborn, you're the only man I wanted beside me. 

"I see, then let's do that. Let's destroy that law called 'Adultery' is that it?" he said.

Before I could open my mouth, I felt how my body trembled when he suddenly bended his knees. The memory of him begging on his knees flashed inside my mind.

He held my hand and the horror I felt earlier disappeared when he kissed my hand before he grinned. 

"With this, I'm marking you. You're mine, okay?" 

How? How is he able to do that? 

He's not a silent guy at all!