Rose watched as Dominic leave, feeling a missing sense on her arms as Dominic’s hand had tightly hugged her earlier. She was then left with Starvos who then said, “He’s ambitious. Reminds me when I was younger.” Rose looked at him and chuckled, “I would say you two do have a lot of similarities.”“Oh really do we?” Starvos were amused by her words. “What part of us are similar?” “The fact that you always banter to each other despite liking each other’s company. That you two are stubborn for the right thing and even though you always appear detached, you care deeply for people close to you,” Rose explained, startling Starvos who puckered his lips.“Geez, being read like a book isn’t fun. You’re embarrassing me.” “See? You two are similar,” she repeated. “Alright alright, say that we are. I’m also surprised how some of his thoughts matched mine. I almost imagined that if Elizabeth did marry me, he would be my son,” Starvos blurted his words only to stay silent after saying it, appa
The carriage drove them across Essex’s path. It’s been only three weeks at most when Rose and Dominic spent their time in Agios yet it felt like years have passed since then. She wondered if both Duke Jeremiah and Shawn had been notified about them coming back to Essex….The carriage stopped at the white mansion. From outside it appeared to be empty but Rose knows it better than anyone of how it was once filled with people. However most of the servants have left when Dominic disappeared. Dominic went down first and he took Rose’s hands. He then turned to Albert, “You can let the men to rest inside. There’s a lot of rooms but if it’s still unavailable you could ask my servant inside named Furnace to bring you to another mansion.” “Thank you sire,” expressed Albert. The man was quick on his feet as he decided what the rest of the men should do now that they have arrived back in the mansion. “Woahhhhh,” sound of amazement comes from Mona who tailed them from behind. She looked at the
With a huff, Rose finally relented. She looked at her parents and said, “And I also have something to tell to you two later.” Both Mr and Mrs Maury looked at each other wondering what it is but didn’t respond. Not long after, Rose watched as they went into the sitting room, filling her with nervousness. Her parents had always been the kindest people. They have gentle hearts which mean they would never hurt people or even a fly. She recalled how despite them having a terrible aunt, there was never a time when her father or mother openly show how exhausted they are by the mental torture that her aunt had done to them, by subtly blaming them for the miscarriage. But now that Rose had seen her own past, she noted that her aunt, Marie had never had a miscarriage. She was ill from the beginning but blamed it all on her mother. She knew it! There was no way her mother would have boiled mushrooms that would cause a person to have a miscarriage. While the mushroom indeed have the ability
Dominic didn’t think he needed to feel ashamed when he knelt. He always thought that having Rose was a blessing to him unlike how Rose have him. He was ready to kneel down from the beginning thus why he had done so upon seeing the disapproval from Mr and Mrs Maury. He could tell how startled and shocked both Mr and Mrs Maury are. They must haven’t expected this coming from him. “Lord Dominic,” Mr Maury said in panic upon seeing Dominic knelt down. “Even if you do this. I will be troubled but I cannot still agree to letting you have Rose.”“I know sir, madam,” Dominic replied. “My life was never blessed. I lived like an animal, fighting for my dear life and if I had a daughter, I would also not want her to marry such a man with a messy life like me. But I need Rose in my life. My body, my heart, and my soul it’s all bound with her.”Mr. Maury frowned, “If you know then you also know that we love her dearly and we don’t want her to get hurt. Please, lord Dominic.”Dominic shook his h
For a moment it was as though their heads had been bashed. Mr. And Mrs Maury didn’t dare to say a single word as they wondered in their heads if they should pretend dumb or if they should be telling them the truth now. Looking at them, she only said, “It’s alright. I wasn’t traumatized by what happened. I know that I was kidnapped with Josie and how we almost faced deaths. I also recalled how I was sent to a church because I was separated when being saved by the travelers who found us.” Mrs Maury’s face paled as she leaned sideway to her husband. “No way… you remembered what happened?” “I didn’t,” confessed Rose. “But I tried to find out. Jayden Harding, he seemed to know me back when I was in the church so I retracted my memories.” “Jayden… that Jayden,” Mrs. Maury felt woozy that worried Rose. She went to her mother, giving her the cup of tea which she accepted. “It’s alright. I am just a little overwhelmed. Do your sister know about this too?” Rose remembered how she still ha
Starvos looked around, finding a couple who stared at him. He felt awkward as he noticed how long he had spent his time in front of the cemetery. Yet he was unable to move forward. “Did he perhaps forget something?” Asked the elderly woman to her husband. “Maybe he did? But what could you forget before coming to a cemetery? You don’t need a key so it won’t be a key. Then what else? Ohh! Maybe he forgot which tombstone is the person he wanted to visit,” said the elderly man. Starvos felt an itch on his lips. He looked behind at the elderly and sighed, “I know the tombstone and no, I don’t forget anything important!” “Then why are you standing still? I almost thought you’re a scarecrow with how big you are!” The elderly woman said to him. Starvos opened his mouth, wanting to retort only to shush his lips as he noticed how unreasonable he was for replying to the elderly couple.“Oh! Honey it must be that!” The elderly grandfather said. “Oh that!” Yelled his wife. Starvos wondered
“Hm that’s true,” he scoffed, “Then you should have known better than to visit the cemetery at night. Who were you visiting?” “Father,” said Shawn for Starvos to flinched. The topic of parents always made Starvos to suddenly turned silent. It’s because he couldn’t understand how parent children relationship work that he never understood what he should feel when talking about parents. Father, especially. Starvos grew up without parents. They were alive until he was fifteen but they were gone before he could feel their love. His parents never once took care of him. They were busy in their own lives. His father was busy to work under the King while his mother spent all her time with her friends. Then they died. Starvos recalled not having sadness or disappointment in him when his parents had died. He was never closed enough to them to feel anything for them. “I see,” was the only words that Starvos could say. “So, what about you?” Shawn questioned as though he was extremely intere
Starvos hummed. He could understand Shawn’s feelings and emotions well but he couldn’t advise him any good advice. He wondered what he would do in Shawn’s position and gently patted his back. “Apologize then,” Starvos showed him a big smile. “If you did hurt her, apologize and fix your problems together. That is the only way for you to rectify your mistake and for her to accept you again. If you don’t want to give up then, apologize. It’s only a single word. While it’s difficult and take a lot of courage, there are a lot lot of relationship which you could save simply by telling them, ‘I’m sorry.’”Shawn felt as though he had been enlightened. If this was his mother he had asked for advise, like the time when he had made a mistake to Dominic. He wasn’t taught to apologize. His mother instead condemned Dominic, twisting his personality. “I..” Shawn was in the middle of talking when Starvos’ eyes lifted up.“Oh there it is! We are in the town now,” Starvos stopped, letting for Shawn t