I was wrong. The restlessness that I thought had subsided still remained in my heart intact. And it returned the mont I looked at the white wedding dress.
I gulped and closed my eyes hurriedly. Why was I feeling this now? I had been prepared for this all my life and now I felt like taking a step back and learning from it all.
"We must get ready now, Your highness," rilyn ca into the room with a smile on her face. She had been happier since we ca back. "You must be prepared for the wedding before your father arrives."
My father was a guest now just as I had been in his Kingdom. A guest that had overstayed her welco.
I sighed and went to the bath, where I was grood like a lamb.
I said on the far side of the tub as I watched her prepare the bath along with two more maids. Today I was getting married which is why I was bathing with pure milk along with flower petals and luxurious oils. All that in the event was going to be washed off from my body.
"How did it feel when you fell for Allan?" I asked you without looking at her. My eyes remained at the petals of Rose. The sa flower that Tristan liked and the sa flower that prince Terence was giving to his beloved.
I did not want to think of the possibility that Tristan was here. He must be too weak to travel. When I had seen him last, he was barely conscious, almost asleep. I wondered if he rembered that i had visited him.
She humd thoughtfully and a stupid smile ca to her face. "I don’t know where to begin, but perhaps it was in his absence that I felt I needed him more. Maybe it was that he knew how to make laugh and he was the perfect gentleman that never crossed the boundaries." She shook her head and sighed again.
" I think love just happens. One never has any kind of control over it and so did I. I think it was the mont I t him I was attracted to him but I knew I was undeniably feeling sothing towards him when I got to know him during the journey."
She felt it for him what I felt for Tristan. But I had gotten her married, was it right?
I sighed and looked at her again. " Do you think that marrying him so soon might be a mistake? Do you hold it against ? Did it because I asked you to?" I blurted out all of my questions at once.
"I do not think so," he replied imdiately and turned to look at . She placed the jug of milk on the floor and sat beside covering my hand with us. "Ladies in waiting are never expected to get married. Princesses or queens usually do not allow them because they trust them truly. You gave the opportunity to marry soone that I find to be an extraordinary man and I am grateful for that."
" You have to tell him the truth one day. I am The Princess and he would have to stay here for all his life to be married to you. Or you will have to leave ." I muttered sadly as I rembered that she would have to shift with him or he would have to co here. That was sothing I did not think while prioritising happiness over mine.
"We’ll talk it out." She waved it off, "Co on."
The bath was long. And for the first ti I did not enjoy it. Bathing with milk was not a delicacy enjoyed by princes frequently and whenever they did they usually enjoyed it to the fullest but I did not feel like that. It felt like a chore that I was doing.
I tear slipped my eye and I hurriedly whipped it as they brought the dress near. They held out for to wear and I without any feelings in my heart Borat. The crown of the princess of Astria rested in front of on the table as I wondered how long I had wanted to wear it.
I scoffed, the cruel ga that fate played.
"Princess," rylin sat down on the floor and neared my ear, "almost every gas is here. The queen wants to tell you that the the king and queen along with their first and second son of Lethoris is here. In fact even the kingdom of South has appeared, the north as usual has been unreachable and only your father ca."
I frowned imdiately, refusing to believe the possibility. " What do you an only my father ca? And was Prince Tomas not unwell?"
She gulped, " no one else has co. It was only your father and his wife that arrived from your side of the family. The first Prince has co and he does not look sick."
" Forget the sickness!" I snapped at her. " Tell honestly, did you see anyone apart from them or not? Even Estelle, did she not co too?" There must be soone who ca. I refused to believe the fact that no one ca for , for my wedding that was practically making the kingdom prosper. How could they?
She was silent with eyes filled with regret. "I’m sorry."
" Sorry?" I scoffed and looked away to where the erald crown sat. "None of them ca?"
I had never felt true betrayal before this. How could none of them co? I felt like balling my eyes out at this. How could none of them co? I have expected more from Estelle than this. She should have tried harder even if father refused.
She should have been there. I was going to make sure that she would beco queen and this is how they repay ?
I bit my lip to stop it from trembling. How could they? "Really? None, none of them ca?"
She shook her head again and I felt like dying. This was the worst betrayal. The fact that prince terrence already had soone lose with a child did not seem so heartbreaking anymore.
"So, i am a guest everywhere," in my own ho and where i am not marrying. I was just a guest.
I did not say anything anymore and plate like a doll, they dressed up, placed ornants on and applied red rogue to my face. The crown was left nie and I loathed it.
"The king is here," rilyn whispered into my ear, "co, we must et him outside."
I almost stumbled when I stood up. The weight of the dress was underestimated by . It was too heavy.
I walked to him without the veil and stood in front of him. He was here, but I felt like telling him to his face that I did not even need him here. For all I cared now, he could go away.
"You look beautiful." he smiled and for the first ti it did not seem malicious or political.
I nodded in gratitude, "like mother?" he nodded, "do you think he would kill too to marry soone else?" I heard rlyn gasp. "Would you do sothing about it? For your daughter, a princess, would you do sothing if he kills like you did to mother?"
His gentle expression changed into a furious one and he almost raised his hand to hit . "Genevieve, dont." he growled, "You do not want to have a hand imprint on your face today."
I laughed at that. "What are you scared of? That the world will see you for who you are?"
He raised his hand at that, his control finally snapping, "Gene-"
"Your highness,’’ rilyn ca in front of and placed her hands in defense, "PLease, the princess is overwheld. I shall make her see sense." she said with her head bowed in front him here as i did not bother to stop glaring at him.
He clenched his jaw and klet, stomping his foot like a toddler when denied sothing.
"What is wrong with you?" she turned around and i saw anger brewing in her eyes, "why would do that?"
Why would I do that? "Because no one is here for !" I yelled at the top of my voice letting my father hear it too. "No one ca for and he wont have too but he did, he had to, to save face!" I pointed to the door beyond which he stood. I hated all of them. How could they do this to when I had left everything I know for them?
"I could run away too, live like a commoner forever, b-but I am living here, marrying soone for them." I sniffed and managed to whisper out before a sob broke out.
"Enough of this," he ca in again and this ti the gentle expression was gone. "I will not have you be hysterical today. Get ready and if you don’t," he sneered and looked at rilyn, "I will have her whipped."
The threat was clear and the quickened riser and fall in rilyn’s chest told that she was scared too.
"Bring the crown and the veil." I told her, I was getting married after all. The life long dream had just turned to be a nightmare.
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