Chapter 272
Buer reacted as if he had been caught doing sothing bad. “It’s more a dismissal, than actual firing.”
For knights that had been loyal to the Skad family for a long ti, like Buer, they were dismissed until being recalled but, for new knights like Barden, they were fully fired. But Barden refused to leave the Skad family, as was his sworn duty to keep his promise to his master.
“I was wondering where you went.” The low voice ca from behind Athyst. She turned around. Alexcent was wearing a white shirt and had his sleeves rolled up, rather than the uniform he used to wear. It was very much the sa look as when he had been Gray.
“Greetings, master.” The knights saluted Alexcent, but he ignored them and concentrated his attention on Athyst.
“Why are you here?” Alexcent asked.
“I want to learn sword techniques,” Athyst replied. Alexcent looked at Sir Hill, who gulped as the attention turned on him.
“I was telling her that she has to be at least a middle-class knight to learn any techniques.”
Athyst took her chance and stepped between Alexcent and Sir Hill. “So, Alec, I was wondering if I could beco a knight. Not just for temporary defence, but an official knight.”
Alexcent looked down at Athyst’s twinkling eyes. “Of course, you can.”
Sir Hill’s mouth dropped open as this was not the answer he had expected.
“Really?” Athyst began jumping in glee, to the amusent of the knights. “Really?”
“But first we need to make sure you’ll be able to keep up with the training.” Athyst stopped jumping. She should have known. This was the Skad army. The reason they had the best knights was because of the high-quality recruitnt and intense training. The only reason Alexcent said yes was because he didn’t believe she would pass, but Athyst had no intention of backing down.
“Of course! You don’t know how hard I trained when I was learning self-defence. I discovered I have an incredible amount of stamina.” Athyst looked at Sir Hill, Buer, and Leyrian to support her, but they simply stepped back to avoid the conversation. She had forgotten how frustrating they could be.
“Ok. Then I have to see what your stamina level is like,” Alexcent said. Then he lowered his head to her ear, so only she could hear. “First in bed.” He then surrounded her with his arms and lifted her off the ground. Athyst tried to kick her way out, but he seed to have no intention of letting her go. He began walking away from the knights, carrying her.
“Alec! Let down!”
“No.”
“Alec!”
“I’m going to the perfect place to test your stamina. Stay still.”
“How is this a stamina test!”
Alexcent didn’t care about her yelling. He was laughing as she struggled. “I’m going to hit your butt if you don’t stop.”
“If you do, I won’t be happy!” Athyst hollered.
Alexcent didn’t stop, even with her shouting. As they walked into the Skad mansion, the maids that passed them lowered their heads, blushing. To Athyst, they were upside down, as she was now draped over his shoulder.
“I’ll walk! Everyone is looking!” Athyst protested loudly.
Alexcent lifted her hand and smacked her bottom. “I told you, I’ll hit your butt if you don’t cooperate.”
“Oh my God! Alec!” Athyst tried to cover her back side with her hands as she dangled in the air. It hadn’t hurt, but she was beyond embarrassed. She felt it was better to just give up.
Once in her chamber, Alexcent lowered her on to the bed. She stared at him with her arms crossed and her eyes flaming mad.
“If you ever do that again…” Alexcent smiled and silence her with a kiss. Athyst could not remain angry when he did that. His lips lted the fury right out of her. She closed her eyes and savoured his taste as she put her arms around his neck. When their lips finally separated, Athyst opened her eyes to look into Alexcent’s beautiful face right in front of hers.
“I don’t know why but I find you even more attractive when you’re angry,” Alexcent said.
“What a terrible fetish.” Athyst laughed
“I know, right? Even when you first ca here, I felt the sa.”
“You an, the day you basically kidnapped ?” Athyst said in surprise.
“Yes. Those eyes, that looked at with such anger, were so lovely. You were the first one to look at like that.”
“Then it was love at first sight?”
“Probably.” Alexcent kissed her lips again. “So don’t go to sobody else when you have .”
“What is this nonsense?” Athyst asked.
“I’ll teach you the sword techniques.”
“You?” Athyst said in shock. “I don’t think that’s a good idea.”
“Why?”
“You’re not very good at teaching.”
“What? Ash, I’ll personally show you how good of a teacher I am. Right now!” Alexcent grabbed Athyst’s ankle as she pretended to run from the bed and dragged her in front of him. Then he started kissing her forehead, her eyelids, nose, cheeks and every other inch of her body.
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After Alexcent left to return to his duties in the palace, Athyst enjoyed her leisure ti. There was a vase of baby’s breath on the table with a short, written ssage from Gen, welcoming her back. It was a thoughtful gift to receive from him as he always seed to be as busy as Alexcent. As she admired the flowers, Pon entered, looking for her.
“Ma’am. Master told to not say anything, but you had bid to always tell you what I believe you should know.”
Athyst wondered what it was that Alec was trying to hide from her, yet Pon thought she should know about. “Tell ,” she instructed the man.
“There’s a ball being hosted by the Empress today. The master said that you need to take care of yourself, since you have been gone so long, and he’ll be attending by himself. There are also so rumours going around that are not good.”
“Rumours?” Athyst asked.
“It’s hard for to talk about. The rumours involve you becoming a God’s Guardian.”
“Tell exactly what the rumour is that you heard.” Athyst needed to know what was being said.
“The exact rumour is that you went to study abroad, and then master went missing. After the master ca back to the family, the rumours started. I really don’t want to say…” Pon looked scared to utter the truth.
“Is the rumour saying that Alec killed .”
“Yes. I’m sorry.”
“There’s nothing for you to be sorry about. However, it’s necessary to set these rumours straight. If I don’t attend this ball, then these rumours would just grow. Thank you, for having the trust to tell this.” Alec was looking out for Athyst, but she couldn’t let rumours spread that he was a murderer.
“All right.” Athyst had made up her mind on how she was going to proceed. “Let’s plan to attend this event, despite what Alec says. Lunia!” Lunia ca in from the outer chamber where she had been standing guard.
“There’s was an invitation to the Empress’ ball today. I’m assuming I must have been included.” There was no way that Belice would have left her out.
“Yes. Of course,” Lunia replied.
“I’ll be attending. But, without Duke Skad knowing about it.”
“Of course.” Lunia understood what Athyst had in mind and imdiately began to help her prepare for the ball.
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