Alia gave him a silent look as he walked back towards her while Clara simply ignored him. Discover more content at empire
With a wry smile on his face, he slowly explained the situation to the two of them.
"I see..." Clara said as she nodded, but then she turned back to watch the princess dance. Keith knew that she was jealous since the synergy he had with Silvia was almost perfect.
On top of that, the sniffing action that Silvia had done at the start had not gone unnoticed. Keith tried to hold her hand, but she shook it off almost imdiately.
Seeing this, Keith shook his head and sighed before looking at Alia, "You ready to set the stage on fire? After all, I gotta show the people that you're my true dance partner."
"It looked like you both really suited each other back then though." Alia replied back, her tone filled with venom but Keith shrugged.
"Isn't that what you nobles do? I couldn't just ss things up in front of everyone you know? On top of that, you and I have been practicing since yesterday so you know that this was just a warm up for ."
Alia silently stared at him for a few seconds until she couldn't hold her smile back anymore, "Sure, let's show these people that Alia is back. No one holds a candle to my charm."
" too... " Clara joined in, "Dance with after Alia. I know we didn't practice, but I want to dance with you."
"Of course, there's no way I'd say no to that. If I ever did, I want you to stab in my sleep."
Clara chuckled and so did the rest of them. Silvia took her sweet ti to dance with various people but once she was done, almost every single noble in the hall began to ask each other for a dance.
Alia grinned as she saw everyone getting ready and looked at Keith before giving him her hand to hold.
"Ready?"
"Of course." Keith said before looking at Mathew, "Let's start?"
"Sure." Mathew said before walking towards the group that was hired to play music.
While the Prince got to work, Keith took Alia to the center of the stage while many other nobles joined them. The music began to play and everyone moved to the upbeat tune that was slow and romantic.
"Let's warm up a little first. Slow to fast." Ketih said and began to dance. His moves were slow and deliberate while Alia followed his lead.
"Just as we practiced." she said and Keith nodded as he took long strides to move around the hall, weaving between multiple dance couples.
anwhile, Mathew walked up to the people who were playing the musical instrunts.
"Guys, speed up the music gradually. I'll give you a heavy tip if you do this for ."
"But sir, the Emperor..." one of them said hesitantly while his hands expertly glided across the keys of the grand piano.
"My father is leaving, look." Mathew said as he pointed towards his father who was being escorted back to the castle.
Seeing this, the group felt less pressured and imdiately agreed to Mathew's request.
The music slowly began to speed up and the and even though the ones who were dancing didn't mind it the increase in speed, Keith grinned as he predicted how everyone would feel distress in a few minutes.
He pulled Alia closer until her waist was touching his body. Their lower bodies were extrely close while Alia slowly arched backwards.
Keith turned and turned as he moved across the hall, making people turn their heads to look at him instead of focus on their own dance.
Most of them were able to keep for a few more minutes until the tempo beca too hard to follow. The ones who tried, felt extrely self conscious as their legs didn't move as fast as the music.
The nobles who had given up, moved to the sides to watch the ones who were still hanging on and there were just three couple who still looked graceful and comfortable with the current tempo.
Keith and Alia, Silvia and Max, and finally, it was Zander and a woman that Keith did not know.
One more minute and the ones who were trying to hang on, gave up and joined the crowd to watch these three duos.
"Alia is still as charming as she always was, isn't she?" one of them asked as he looked at his brother who nodded.
"Yeah, I would have asked for her hand if only she wasn't kicked out of her household. Prince Zander really was selfish and did us all dirty."
"Indeed..."
There were similar discussions going on among the crowd with both n and won praising Alia's beauty. This also got Keith a lot of attention, making him the most sought after man at the mont as won swooned over him.
Keith on the other hand, leisurely looked at the two other couple who were dancing and smirked before looking at Alia.
"Ready to fly?"
"Ready when you are." she replied back and Ketih imdiately switched styles.
He pulled her closer as he pushed both his hands to his sides, "Three." he said and took a long step, which Alia imitated.
"Two." he said and jumped slightly. This ti, covering more distance and after barely waiting for a second, he muttered, "Three."
This ti, the two of them covered even more distance and Keith grinned before saying the last bit, "Let's fly."
The two of them barely stayed on the ground as they pounced around the hall graciously with Alia's dress fluttering behind her as she moved with Keith.
Keith ca to a halt right in front of Zander and made eye contact with Alia. Both of them leaned backwards and spun around the couple, imdiately disrupting their moves.
Zander fumbled, taking a step backwards as he saw Keith appear in front of him, but before he could do much, Keith had already moved behind him.
The two of their shoulder's collided and the second prince lost his balance before falling to the ground. He angrily looked at Keith, only to see a smirk on his handso face.
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