"What?! How dare they?!"
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Harper shouted after hearing the story about my discovery about the relationship between Ronald and Paisley.
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"My Lady, we need to kill them!" Harper once again shouted.
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Harper was my personal maid who I had grown up with.
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Her mother was my mother's closest maid so I and Harper grew up to be close to each other.
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"No need for such extreme measures... " Henry spoke up, trying to calm down his twin sisters fired up spirit.
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Henry was Harper's twin brother who had also been my play mate. He was completely different from her.
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"Extreme measures? Killing them is a blessing!"
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Henry was bewildered about Harper's reasoning and could barely think of what to say.
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"What if it's all a misunderstanding? Lady Paisley has been really helped by our Lady and they are really close? "
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"A misunderstanding? Are you that much of an idiot Henry?
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How can you misunderstand seeing your lover and your sister in your room, half naked while making out?!"
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Henry was silenced by Harper's rebuff and turned to me to deal with her vigor.
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"Now, now Harper. Calm down. I might not kill them physically but will instead destroy their reputation and lives. Making it so bad, that they'd want to commit suicide"
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I ended my sentence with a cruel smile and Harper smiled back to.
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Harper clapped her hands joyfully and said. "Yay! It's been up to a month since the lady last destroyed someone's life! Oh, how long it's been!"
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"You know me far better than that"
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"I thought the lady was becoming... good"
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I and Harper both laughed at her joke, while Henry stood by the side, pitying the souls of Paisley and Ronald.
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He muttered under his breath. "The Deor household...is really...a scary place"
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***
"What?! How dare they?!"
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My mother's reaction was similar to Harper's, after listening to my explanation of Ronald's infidelity with Paisley.
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"Adria, where's my sword?"
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Mother stood up, walking too her closet were she kept her sword.
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I quickly held her hand, stopping her from completing her actions.
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"Adria?"
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Mother called me by my nickname, meaning that she was very concerned about me.
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I flashed her a bright smile and brought her back to her seat behind her desk.
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"Mother, you know I can handle this"
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Marchioness Jessica Deor had married into the Deor family and gave birth to me as her only child.
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The Marchioness, my mother, had been a daughter from a wealthy Viscount in the capital.
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Before getting married into the Deor family, she had been a knight of the imperial family.
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Being among, the very few strong and notable female knights that had gone into war, my mother had earned herself respect and recognition here in the South and was respected as Marchioness Deor.
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She had quite a high self esteem and loved Adrianna and could obviously not stand the fact that the mistress' daughter ousted her own daughter and stole her fiancé.
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Mother stretched out her gloved hand and traced the ends of my cheek with her fingers.
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"Oh my baby... are you hurt?"
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I shook my head and raised the ends of my lips, showing her my evil smirk.
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"Of course not mother. You know the real reason why I proposed to be engaged to Ronald is because of the stability between the Belv Duchy as they help your knight program.
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Besides, I've told you before that I knew that he's cheating on me. The only thing that comes as a surprise is that he was cheating on me with Paisley"
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It was the truth. The only reason why I proposed an engagement to Ronald was because of the knight program that my mother had started.
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Many migrants and homeless people wander around the outskirts of the Belv territory.
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Our people couldn't just barge into their territory and take away the people.
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We had no relationship with the Belv Duchy, thus my engagement to Ronald opened up many business prospectives which I wanted mother to take advantage of.
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I had no feelings for Ronald and only saw him as a means to rise in status and door to opportunities.
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I knew about his womanizing habits very well but didn't mind.
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Even if we got married I still wouldn't care. To me, marriage was just an official means of take-and-give.
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But seeing Paisley who I had trained, snatching what had belonged to me... I can't just help but feel pissed off!
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Mother patted my head and flashed her own wicked smile.
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"I'm glad you're okay. Since you want to handle them yourself, make sure to deal with them so that they'll regret betraying and messing with you!"
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"Alright"
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Mother then changed the topic to something else.
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"The war between our Empire and neighboring kingdom has quickly come to an end, after only a month!
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It's probably owed to the Crown Prince's involvement with it. I heard he was fighting at the front lines and was able to slaughter a hundred men at a time. Such an exaggeration"
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Mother doubted that he could single handedly kill over a hundred people, however, I held different thoughts.
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Crown Prince Nathan was the male lead of [I Shall Save My Knight]. He had supposedly fallen in love with Paisley at first sight during his debut Ball.
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However, unlike in the novel were he would be revealed to the world at the age of eighteen, his debut had not yet happened despite him already possibly being twenty two, since he was said to have been older than Paisley with two years.
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Paisley was already twenty years yet the Crown Prince Nathan had not ever shown his face to the world.
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His identity and look was unknown by everybody.
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In the novel he was referred to as a monster who could only be calmed by Paisley's innocence.
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There was a part in the novel were he had destroyed a whole kingdom by himself.
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Since this was a fantasy novel, I wouldn't be surprised if the male lead could do that much.
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"There's a rumor that the Crown Prince will have his debut once the army comes back to the capital after clearing up the carnage and claiming the treasures.
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That will take at least two months so I'm already preparing dresses we'll wear to the event"
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I had a nice chat about business and some personal matters with mother and finally stood up to leave as she continued sorting some paper work.
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As I was leaving through the door she said. "But if you change your mind about dealing with Ronald and Paisley yourself, my sword is always ready to shed blood!"
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'Such loyal people... I'm lucky to have become the villainess of this novel'
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***
Night time had finally arrived and I went to my balcony and stood, staring up at the moon.
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Many thoughts on how to deal with my newly gained enemies went through my mind.
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I turned around and went back into my room. Walking over to my bed, I sat at the side of it and patted the space beside me.
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"There's no use in hiding. I already know you're here" I said.
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Out of a corner near my wardrobe, a dark figure came up to me.
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The person was dressed in black. With a strong and tall build. His hair was dark purple in color, falling to the sides of a very gorgeous face with good proportions of all the features.
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His broad shoulders and piercing silver eyes gave him a domineering presence as he loomed over me.
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But I wasn't afraid in the slightest. This wasn't the first time he had come into my room in such a way.
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"You're back so early. I heard that the war just ended" I said.
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The man laughed and sat beside me on the bed. He leaned in close to me and smiled seductively.
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"I had to be quick and come back. Before someone steals your heart away from me"
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I pushed away his face that leaned in too close to mine.
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"You don't own my heart"
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"That's how it is for now, but very soon you'll give it to me yourself"
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I smiled and decided to change the topic.
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"What happened that the war ended so quickly?"
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"I happened. Those little rats just had to attack my Empire when I wasn't in a good mood"
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"Haha. Very funny"
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The room was silent for a second. The silence wasn't awkward but instead felt natural.
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Finally the man spoke up.
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"You're obviously attracted to me, so why still insist on not cheating on that Ronald bastard? He cheats on you, so why remain so loyal, Adrianna"
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I shrugged my shoulders.
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It's not that I don't want to cheat on Ronald, it's more of the fact that I had been afraid. Afraid to get involved with the male lead and jeopardize my peaceful life.
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'But now things are different'
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"Nathan. I'm breaking up with Ronald"
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For the first time, surprise appeared on the face of the usually cold Crown Prince.
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Surprise then turned into a sincere smile.
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Only I could currently make the male lead express such colorful emotion.
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Unlike in the original story, the vicious and cold Crown Prince Nathan had fallen in love with me.
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