My deepest apologies, Your Majesty, but as you know I have beco alone after sending off the Duke, and I fear that if I bring soone into the house, others may misunderstand
Stop spouting nonsense. If you dont like it, just say you dont like it.
..
Yes, I dont like it.
Honestly.
When I looked up at him plaintively,
Rashids red eyes narrowed nacingly. When Id first seen him do that, my
heart had practically frozen, but maybe Id beco more used to itI found it a bit more bearable now.
N-next ti, soday. But today.
..Enough, just keep your promise.
Just like his footsteps pivoting away from the house, his voice turned cold once more. Had the honeyed voice Id heard back in the water been only a dream?
My baby, did you hear it then?
I squeezed Haniel into my arms and tried whispering into her tiny ears, but there was no way she was going to answer.
I really must have heard wrong.
As I swallowed down the words that nobody would believe and turned back, sothing ca into my eyes.
The footprint of that man, where water,
and not blood, was pooling in.
***
Your Majesty! Are you alright!
Viscount Dion was appalled as soon as he saw Rashid, completely wet, as he ca back to the royal villa. He hurriedly thrust his fingers towards the villas servants, standing in two rows.
What are you doing just standing there! Hurry, go heat up the bathwater and prepare so food! No, go light a fire in the fireplace first. And get so warmly heated brandy.
.how noisy.
When Rashid raised one hand and appeared to find everything tireso, their movents stopped as one.
Step, stepevery ti he took a step, drops of water fell onto the ground.
At the news that the Emperor had co, Peyton and Tenon ran out to greet him.
Your Majesty! What happened!
How could this be!
.there is no need to fuss.
What do you an, fussing? This is a given!
.
A given, huh.
Rashid slowly scrutinized all the people that surrounded him.
To be showered with excessive interest in the re act of coming and going, it was truly a given if he thought about it.
Though that didnt seem the case with soone he knew.
..
What in the world happened, Your Majesty? Did you perhaps fall into water? If by any chance you were attacked
Impossible. Why would elder brother fall into water? If soone pushed, maybe, but no
Move.
He rcilessly pushed aside his younger brothers, who apparently couldnt even consider that hed gone in to save soone. Well, it was sothing even he wouldnt believe himself.
..
No, in fact, even now he still couldnt explain why hed done so.
He rembered up to when hed been laughing at the woman who kicked up a fuss over a re baby bird drowning in the water very clearly. But after that, even he found everything to be hazy.
Are you crazy!
When hed co back to his senses, water had already co up to his knees, and in the next mont, his arms were wrapped around the womans waist.
And among his dim and confusing mory, only the feeling of how she had struggled in his arms remained intact.
Your Majesty, do you have a fever? Your face
.shut up.
Rashid shoved Tenon, who had been staring fixedly at his forehead, away. To Tenon, this was nothing out of the ordinary, but today for so reason, he stared at his brother after he was shoved.
Its still a life. It has eyes and ears, so you should be careful. (quote from Chapter 41! Once thats uploaded, will need to change)
Your Majesty, if may I ask why you are looking at my ears.
..never mind.
You were also a life.
Rashid made an expression as if to say he had realized sothing useless, then began to take off his wet shirt.
Instead of being hurt, his younger brother standing there so serenely and yet so blankly made him smile bitterly.
But the real problem was that his actions, which hed had no problem doing up until now, was rubbing him in the wrong way now, as if he was being restrained by soone.
.seriously, how much more will this witch
Your Majesty?
Just take this.
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