(From Blue's Perspective)
"Blue!" Evelyn exclaid in surprise when she saw . After the butler of the side palace inford her, she ca to escort herself. "How have you been? I heard you were not feeling okay. Detrius told this yesterday..."
She hugged for a long ti and then pulled back. It seed she was truly worried about . Neither Dem nor I ever thought of Evelyn as soone who would betray us. Dem said he did not hate her or distrust her, but he also said that he did not think of her as his family either. But I did. She was like an elder sister to .
She even asked if Dem had forcibly brought here when we first t. I still rembered every word she said that ti. She was also the first person to tell how Dem truly felt about when I was so confused.
'Oh, Blue, you have already got a family. I know my brother. You might not believe this, but you are the person he cares about the most, more than anyone else. He will stand up to anyone for you. You might think that as we are his family, he is very close to us. But that's not the case.
If there is a fire and he can only save one person, he will choose you without any kind of hesitation. Do you know why? Because he wants you. He feels so kind of pull towards you. Wolves are hungry, Blue. And the Alphas are even hungrier.
They get what they want and when they get it, they make sure to take care of it and let no one else co in between the Alpha and his precious thing. My brother might look very frightening and I won't lie, he actually is like that. But to you, he is softer than cotton.
All you have to do is be his only and gain his trust, be with him, and then, he will give the world to you and protect you from whatever cos in the way.'
It helped a lot that ti. Though I could not trust everything she said, it still comforted a bit. Later, I found out that she was right all along.
He was crazily in love with . And if there was a fire, he would truly save if he could save one person. But if he could not save anyone, I had a feeling that he would just kill others who were alive. It was a dangerous thought. But it undoubtedly was sothing soone like him could do.
Even the thought made shiver from head to toe.
When I was not answering Evelyn's question, she said, "I know about the aphrodisiac. You can talk to ."
"Let's go sowhere else first. We can have so tea now since we could not do so yesterday," she added, pulling with her by my hand.
While Detrius looked like their mother, Evelyn looked more like their father. I saw a few portraits of the previous king, King Ajax, the father of Detrius and Evelyn. Detrius had their father's hair but looked exactly like their mother. He even got his mother's eyes. On the other hand, Evelyn had their mother's hair but looked like their father.
But both Detrius and Evelyn had a similar expressions on their faces and their personalities were the sa as well.
"Take a seat, Blue," she said.
Perita helped sit. I almost got used to taking help to even just sit. Everyone helped do everything. It was nothing new anymore.
"Dem told you yesterday why I could not co, right?"
"Yes," she nodded while motioning her maids to get us tea and refreshnts. "He told himself. The way he talked was kinda gross, you know. He said, 'My wife is sick. So, she can't co today. She said she is sorry.' Then he added, 'Don't disturb her.
She will let you know when she can.' The second part was more like him. But the first part was too gentle. It was weird and gross. I was thinking where did my brother go and what happened to him."
I could not help but chuckle. I told Dem to tell Evelyn this himself because I did not want to send her a letter when she was in the main palace. It felt kind of rude.
"The maid, Sally- she is dead," she said.
"Yes, I know," I said. "Dem was questioning her when she suddenly died just like that."
"Who knows what happened? Luc checked her, I heard," she said.
"Yes, I heard he reported everything to Detrius," I said.
"A secret matter?"
"Yes..."
"I see. It doesn't matter. I hate political matters anyway. That's why I rejected the crown when Detrius offered it to . None of us wants to be a ruler, but I was the first one to reject. So, he had to be the king," she said, smiling gently.
"Ruling is hard. I despise it. Traveling is more fun. You don't have to worry about anything and can have fun to your heart's content."
"It's great to do what you like," I chuckled tiredly.
I felt bad for Dem. He did not even want to be the king, yet he had to. Every night when he ca back, he would have a tired and sad expression on his face as if he was forced to do all these. He even told before that he wanted a normal family without all this chaos.
"That aphrodisiac... Thank god, Detrius was near. Or, who knows what might have happened? It's dangerous," she said.
"Yeah... It was just too intense and well, I don't want to take that kind of thing again," I said. I had taken aphrodisiac before too. But this one was too intense and made feel like I was going to die if Dem did not do it with right then.
"It's forbidden and the making of this aphrodisiac has been banned a long ti ago. So bastards, perhaps still are making it and selling it. But what I don't understand is why soone would give you an aphrodisiac out of all things. If it was a poison, then it would be believable. But aphrodisiac? Really?"
Evelyn wondered why soone gave an aphrodisiac. I wondered about that too. Now, I had a rough idea of why they gave it to .
"Yes, we are trying to find out more about it," I said. I had no idea if it was intentional or not, but my tone would beco less informal whenever I talked to soone else other than Dem, Luc, Ruby, Perita, and Doctor Dimitri. "I will let you know when we find out."
"Yes, that's a good idea... Blue, you know, you don't have to be formal with ," she said, smiling a bit.
I did not want to be formal with her as well. But it was not intentional. Being too friendly felt a bit uncomfortable for so reason. Was it because I did not see her in a long ti?
"I am sorry. I just can't help it," I said.
"I can understand you actually. When I used to take etiquette lessons, it was very hard to talk to people, switching between informal and formal tones. Don't worry, you will get used to it eventually," she said. "After that, I wish you will be less formal with ."
"Ah, yes, I will try..."
"I want to talk to you about a lot of things. I wish you will have lunch with today," she said.
Seeing surprised, she quickly added, "Don't worry, I will have the food checked right in front of your guard. There won't be any problem."
"Please don't get so worked up. I will be glad to have lunch with you as well," I chuckled. "Thank you for your invitation."
"You are too kind. But I'm glad you accepted."
Tea was served with macarons and other cookies. I liked macarons the most among cookies. So, I was quite happy that she served it.
"The macarons are amazing," I said. "I think they taste slightly different than the ones the Imperial cook makes. But it's good too."
"The new cook that I hired made it," she said. "Her cooking is great, but she tends to use lemon juice in almost everything. But the food still tastes good, so it's alright."
"I see...."
"By the way, how is your married life going?"
"Everything is going well," I said.
"Well, then let's have a girl's talk. How many tis do you have sex in a week?"
'Zero to one... This week, we have done it once. But we did not do it at all for the past few weeks.... Not that I can tell her that.'
"Every day if I don't have my period," I replied. It was not entirely a lie. If everything was going normally, we would have done the sa. We used to do it every day before as well.
"Wow, that's cool! We do it every day too!" she grinned proudly. "Our room is a bit away from Ava's, so we don't have any problem having sex. I can tell you this freely now because rrick isn't here. He is very shy, you know."
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