170 Chapter 170 : Keep a close eye.
Julia darted her eyes between the three won sitting in front of her and gulped. “What is it you want?” It was always like this, everyone always wanted to use her for sothing, first the Gavarian queen, then it was Elric and now lissa. Anyway, she had tried to kill her so it’s the least she could do right?
lissa smiled at the green eyed woman and leaned forward. The movent made Julia instinctively move back and almost fall off the chair. “I want you...”
Julia was breathing quickly in anticipation.
“I want you to tell what’s really going on between you and prince Clovis,” lissa spoke and resud her previous posture.
Julia blinked a few tis before furrowing her brows in confusion, “what?”
“Co on Julia,” lissa spoke with a teasing smile, “everyone in the palace is talking about it. They say you two have tea together everyday, and he’s been seen walking out of your bedroom a few tis as well. Don’t hold out on .”
“That’s what you want?” Julia responded in confusion, “gossip?”
“Well when you put it like that it seems bad,” lissa responded with an embarrassed look. “I have been bored out of my mind these past two days. I’m sure you heard that the king and I had ummh.. a small misunderstanding. And he may or may not have banned from leaving our chambers and taken away all my books.”
“Oh..” Julia didn’t really know what to say, she thought lissa would ask for a favor or sothing, but here she was just looking for soone to talk to? This woman was strange indeed.
.....
“I an these two aren’t any help,” lissa pointed and Maria and Vivian. “Maria’s stories are a little depressing and Vivian is to shy to tell the details of her relationship with Zander.”
“I’m not shy I just don’t think it’s an appropriate topic!” Vivian yelled, she folded her arms and turned away with her face as red as a tomato.
“And how are my stories depressing?” Maria whined.
“You’re always talking about how sick your mother is and how you lost your father,” Vivian comnted, “and no offense I love your mother, she’s a sweetheart, made the best bread, but it’s a little bit much.”
Julia smiled as she watched the won bickering, she had never really had friends growing up, so seeing this play out in front of her was nice.
“Okay fine,” Julia responded, “since you asked nicely, and I owe you, I’ll tell about my little dilemma with the prince.”
*
Elric knocked lightly on Clovis bedroom door, “Clovis! May I co on?!”
The king knocked a second ti, “Clovis!” When he got no response he slowly pushed the door open and saw his brother standing in place looking out the window.
“You and Jeffrey really need to learn how to respect my privacy as the older sibling,” Clovis muttered without turning to face Elric.
“I’m sorry, I didn’t get a response when I knocked,” Elric responded and walked to stand by his brother’s side.
“That should have told you that I’m not accepting any visitors right now.”
Elric shrugged and looked out the window, his eyes widened when he noticed that Clovis was looking out at their mother’s grave. “Please don’t tell you’re planning on killing our father Clovis.”
“I’m not,” the silver haired prince responded, “I was just trying to see things from his point of view. You see how her grave is slightly tilted to the left? Father’s chambers are right next to mine, on the left.”
“He can look right at her from his window can’t he?” Elric asked with a sigh. “Gods he was so in love with that woman.”
“Hence his irrational behavior.” Clovis turned to look at Elric, “can you imagine how completely insane you would go if lissa died. I an you waged war just by her leaving your side.” He turned back to look at his mother’s grave, “I know I’d not hold my sanity for very long if anything ever happened to Julia. And I know what you’re going to say, I only just got to know her, but still, I just can’t seem to control my feelings around her. I just want her safe and next to all the ti. Does that make sense?”
Elric smiled slightly to himself, he knew exactly what was going on with his brother, he had read about it many tis before. There was no mistaking that feeling. “It seems Julia is your mate dear brother.”
Clovis scoffed and turned to go and sit on his bed, “you believe in that ‘lycans only have one mate for life’ nonsense?”
“As a matter of fact I do..”
“Because of lissa? Don’t you think it’s just an obsession?” Clovis added on while stretching his neck from side to side.
Elric wasn’t very sure anymore, in the beginning he really did feel that lissa was his mate but things were different now. He cared about her yes, but not in a possessive romantic way, maybe that’s how it had always been and he had confused those feelings with being in love. But now ca the question, if lissa wasn’t his mate, who was it? And would he ever get the chance to be with them, whoever they were?
“it’s the only logical explanation,” Elric responded. “Anyway, to appease father you know that Julia has to face so sort of punishnt right?”
Clovis glared at his brother, gods he was a lost cause. Just the ntion of Julia was enough to trigger his inner wolf. “I won’t allow you to hurt her.”
“I’m fully aware you would rip limb from limb if I as much as looked at her funny,” Elric responded while taking small steps around the room. “So after much thought, I’ve co up with a suitable punishnt for her.”
“Which is?”
“She will be banished from the royal palace and the rian capital until further notice,” Elric responded.
Clovis stood up and walked towards his brother, “and where exactly do you plan to take her?”
“What I know is that the governor of the kingdom is responsible for these kinds of decrees,” Elric responded with a straight face. “The king rely banishes, the governor is in charge of whatever happens to the offender afterwards.”
“But the governor of ria is...”
“You,” Elric responded with a slight smile, “exactly, took you long enough to get it.” The silver haired king turned around and headed for the door, “good night brother, I’ll see you in the morning at breakfast.”
Clovis stood there stunned for a while, had Elric just helped him? He didn’t think that his brother had a soft side, he had changed so much since they were children. Who knew that the perfect son would bend the rules for a forbidden relationship?
“Thank you..” Clovis muttered as Elric closed the door.
*
Finwe found his brother in the stables feeding the horses after wandering the palace looking for him, “what are you doing here in the middle of the night?”
Gareth turned to face his brother and smiled gratefully at him, “how did you know?” He spoke.
The blonde prince knitted his brows in confusion, “how did I know you were here? One of the maids told .”
“No Finwe,” Gareth spoke with a chuckle, “how did you know about star?”
“Star?”
Gareth moved aside and revealed the majestic creature he had been feeding. It was a pure white horse with a long mane and a small patch of black fur on its neck that resembled a star.
“In my past life I got l a horse exactly like this, she nad him star,” Gareth explained while stroking the horse. “I found this note that told to check for ‘a special gift’ to present to her once we’ve reunited.”
Finwe took the note and read through it, “brother i didn’t write this, and I certainly didn’t get you a horse.”
Gareth now looked confused, “but the letter, it’s in the sa handwriting as the note you left with the ring.”
“I didn’t get you that ring either Gareth,” Finwe responded.
“Then who did?”
“I honestly don’t know,” Finwe responded while inspecting the horse, “but now it’s starting to worry . First the ring and now the horse, maybe it has sothing to do with what Aiden was talking about earlier.”
“Aiden? What does aiden have to do with any of this?”
“Well he says he constantly feels like we’re being watched or sothing like that,” Finwe responded as he stroked the horse’s snout. He couldn’t help but admire the creature, his brother had bought lissa a horse like this? Before he was a prince?? Wow, love really was sothing.
Gareth placed his finger on his mouth thoughtfully, “he said the sa thing when were on our way here. Do you think Aiden knows sothing that we don’t?”
“Or he’s hiding sothing,” Finwe comnted, “he did just show up out of nowhere claiming he wanted to get to know his sister, sothing doesn’t add up. We should keep a close eye on him.”
Theodora who had been listening in on the conversation in the shadows slowly pulled away. She had to warn Aiden that the princes were suspicious of him, she had to make sure he got to lissa so he could get to Estel, it was the only way she could get the chance to see him smile.
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