Agnes let out a small chuckle, “Annie, can you tell Lady Aurora that she remembered everything all wrong?”Annie held her head down in silence.Agnes tightened her grip on Annie’s shoulder.Annie shivered, and spoke up in a choking voice, “…L—Lady Aurora, you remembered it wrong…There was no maid. N
“The patient is stabilized now,” the doctor said.“But he hasn’t woken up yet?” “No,” the doctor shook his head. “Lady Agnes’s cure only kept him from going into a complete heart and liver failure. But to completely recover, he needs the actual cure for the poison.”Westin balled his hands into fis
Yet she didn’t stop her pace for him.She ran into the hallway and caught up with Sammy and Wells.“Hey, Sammy!”She got to Sammy’s side and gave her a smile, “I want to thank you for standing up for me like that. It means a lot to me.”“D…Don’t be.” Sammy shook her head, “It was Prince Wells. He en
Belle took a moment to tidy her dress, which got wrinkled during running.Then she puffed her chest, raised her chin, and walked over like a proud princess.“Morning.”She said in a polite yet distant voice.The ladies jerked around in shock. Especially Agnes. Her movement was so large that she almo
“What kind of friend is more important than his own brother and sister?” Aurora let out a sarcastic laugh. “Or are you saying that you and the King have an improper king of relationship? I wonder what the King says about this—”“NO!” Agnes snapped.She let out a frustrated breath and stood up from h
Aurora urgently dodged to the right and narrowly escaped the blade by one inch.The killer’s move was swifter than she thought.He swung his arm and threw a punch at Aurora’s shoulder.Aurora was a trained soldier.She was confident that she could stop that punch.So she raised an arm and tried to s
Westin placed a piece of grey cloth on the bed.“I tore it off from his clothes last night,” he said.Aurora picked up the cloth and studied it closely.She saw people dressed in cloaks made of similar cloth.The House of Shadows.Which happened to be Elder Lamonte and Agnes’s house.Aurora clenched
Elder Lamonte’s face was expressionless.His calm eyes met Aurora’s for a brief moment, and then he looked away.“Lady Aurora, did you get a clear look at the killer?” Elder Pierre asked urgently.“No,” Aurora shook her head.“This is unacceptable.”Westin said in a deep, anger-filled voice, his sha
“There isn’t!”He chuckled lowly, “Fine. Then what should we do before bedtime?”“You can read to me. There is a novel on the nightstand.”With one arm still wrapped around her shoulder, he reached over and grabbed the book.Turning the book to the page that she folded, he started reading.He had a
Her heart was thumping so crazily that she was afraid that he might hear the sound of her heartbeat.But she didn’t let her panic show.“Do you have a trusting issue, Westin?” she asked, pretending to be vexed.“Don’t make this about me, my love.” He raised an eyebrow while saying, “First you manage
“Hey what are you talking about over there? We need our pitcher,” Westin cried to them in the distance.Aurora laughed and patted on Clemente’s shoulder, “You should get back in there.”The game lasted for hours till the moon moved to the center of the night sky.Eventually stewards had to step in a
He kept going till her angry screams completely faded in the distance.***When Clemente returned to the castle, it was already approaching nightfall.He immediately wanted to report back to Aurora.Yet a soldier by the front gate said that the King needed him in the training field.So he turned and
Agnes stared at him.The horrified look faded from her face.Eventually, her face became expressionless.“Yes,” she uttered.“…What?”“I said yes.” Agnes let out a light chuckle, “You were asking me for an answer. I am answering you right now—Yes. I do want Westin for myself.”Clemente gritted his t
“And you are defending her!”Tears streaming down Agnes’s cheeks as she shrieked:“Do you know what a hard time she gave me a couple of days ago? She expelled me from my own tea party, Clemente! How can you ever hang out with her? You swore to your brother on his deathbed that you would always help
After a long while, Clemente put the pregnancy stick into his pocket and picked up the lemonade again.He crossed the lawn and found Aurora and the twins by the water fountain.“You are back!” Belle jumped up as soon as she saw him, “Come and smell the roses, Clemente. The gardener just picked it ou
“Of course, it will!”Belle answered right away:“The fog in the mist forest had nothing to do with the weather. It is a magical power that protects our Kingdom 24/7…”She paused.And then started to giggle, “…kind of like Clemente!”Wells rolled his eyes, “I didn’t know why Westin sent this guy to
Aurora’s mind went blank for a second.Although she had seen this coming, she had not prepared for this.There was actually a baby inside of her body, a baby she could not protect.How would Westin react to this?He would certainly be enraged.He hated Damien to his gut, and he would hate Damien’s k