"I am not breaking any rule, lord Gerard. I am just stating facts. The winner of the competition serves the crown prince. But this year the competition is won by my own silly sister. Now you are not expecting her to leave her royal life and be my knight and serve , are you, lord Gerard? So the next winner should be the one to serve , and that is this dumb girl.
You can have the second runner up, she is better than her in speaking and their sword wielding capacity was almost at par." he said with the sa laid back attitude returned.
"I did not think so. Though the girl is a little rude. I saw her wielding two swords together. If nurtured well, she would be the best knight of the empire." he said, praising , as he looked at from up to bottom, his eyes stayed on my face for more than 10 seconds but before i could look he turned to William again.
Never had I thought that even a complint could sound like an insult. He was once again thinking of using in a different way as if I was not a human but a thing for him to take advantage of.
"Too bad, she still belonged to . and i did not believe in giving things that are mine." said William as he looked at again, "what are you waiting for, you dumb girl. Co and follow ." he said, raising a brow and I followed him with gritted teeth.
'What was with this dumb girl attitude. Was he not calling sweetheart of my lady till yesterday?'
"Why are calling dumb girl today??" i asked and he chuckled,
"Because you are, you are a one dumb cray girl. Did you just stabbed the royal highness of the empire only to co second in the contest when you would have co second even if you would have lost.
Can you see the man sitting there on the highest post here, do you think he would let the matter go?" he asked as he pointed at the emperor who was looking worried as he was talking to the physician and Josephine was nowhere to be seen.
My father walked to with quick strides and reached out to . My cold heart began to pound little by little.
"Your royal highness" he wished him as he took in his arms.
"Are you okay, Abigail?."
"…Daddy."
I grasped the sleeves of my father's navy blue uniform with my trembling hands. He looked at suspiciously, his eyes full of anxiety.
"Why are you trembling so badly? What happened?"
"… "
When I turned into his arms, he stopped asking and hugged silently. I felt his warmth spreading over my body. Just like the snow lting in the warm sunlight, my frozen blood lted little by little. The anger that had surrounded gradually disappeared.
"You don't need to worry too much. That was a competition and accidents do happen, you were just trying to win the battle." he consoled thinking i was worried because of the competition.
Gerard walked towards us too. He stood in front of my father as if waiting for them to wish him.
"Your highness" my father bowed to the young man who was just 19 for now, his eyes were still fixed on . Those phoenix eyes in whom I had lost myself. Those eyes that always looked at warmly but in the end were cold and hard when they killed rcilessly.
"Is it your daughter, Duke Essendson?" His voice was full of respect and kindness. As if he was the best gentleman around.
I still rember eting him on my coming of age anniversary for the first ti. My first dance was supposed to be with the crown prince but he was flirting with Isabella, so I refused to dance with him and chose Gerard. That was when he had first touched my heart, he had made feel special every passing second as if I was sothing very precious.
"Yes, your highness. She is taking training to be a knight." he replied proudly as he looked at and then at the man who was smirking.
"Too bad, I would have been proud to be part of my knights but his royal highness was more interested in her." The way he said that sentence as if William was interested more in than in my abilities and as expected my father's grip on tightened.
"Abigail is too young to serve any family, your highness. She had just started training. She would take years to serve any royal family and maybe I would marry her off before that." though his voice was still respectful, it had authority in it as if he would not take any argunt or order in consideration.
"Now if both of you would excuse us." he said as he took my hand in his and bowed and with that he walked out from there.
"Father, are you alright?" I asked as I could feel his tightened grip on my hands.
"Abigail, you are too young to get involved with both of them. I did not want you to serve any of them. You are just going to get your training from noah. And then I will find a good house husband for you.. Then you can take my position and train the future knights since you have chosen that as your career" he said. Did he just say house husband.. Where was that coming from?
"Daddy.." I called him but he did not listen. I had to call him a few tis to listen.
When finally he turned to look at I hugged him, I felt him stiffen in my arms and then slowly he wrapped his arms around my shoulders too.
"I love you father, but you can not keep hidden for a lifeti.. You can not protect for a lifeti." I explained and he smirked.
"Oh, darling. You have no idea…"
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