“I’ll see you tomorrow, Your Highness.”

Patrick gave a well mannered smile, concealing his interior ideas, and left the room.

The crown prince referred to as a servant to the examine after the aide went away.

“You referred to as for me, Your Highness.”

“Relay to my father that I will likely be visiting him directly.”

“Understood.”

The servant left after receiving his command. The crown prince adopted swimsuit quickly after.

‘To be able to execute my plan…’

Crown Prince Bartèze deliberate to request one thing from his father, the king.

He wasn’t nervous about having his request turned down. The king cherished the crown prince deeply. The king’s beloved, the queen consort, had simply barely managed to present delivery to Bartèze along with her frail physique. The king had by no means turned down a request from the son of the lady he beloved.

‘I can’t wait.’

The crown prince crossed by means of the magnificent hall triumphantly.

‘For the day Duchess and Duke Mayhard fall at my toes, sobbing, not understanding what pressure that they had reckoned with. That bitch and bastard.’

Kek, kek. Kek, kek, kek.

“Bwahaha!”

The crown prince couldn’t include his laughter. It rang by means of the huge halls of his palace and echoed in each nook and cranny.

***

“All finished.”

After the maid had completed accessorizing Yelena, she checked out herself within the mirror. Then, her face crumpled right into a scowl.

‘A celebration…’

The crown prince had invited the duke and duchess to a celebration he was internet hosting on the royal palace. However the get together wasn’t to have a good time the crown prince.

The get together was to have a good time the crown princess, the daughter of the primary concubine. She had lately returned to her homeland after spending a very long time finding out overseas. Congratulating her on her return was the official goal of the royal get together.

Yelena tried to disregard the invitation at first. If the invitation had been the one factor to reach on the ducal citadel, then she undoubtedly would have been ready to take action.

However the crown prince’s invitation got here with a royal topic.

“I used to be ordered to not return till you accepted the invitation.”

Clearly, the crown prince was pressuring Yelena to just accept the invitation. As quickly as she got here face-to-face with that strain, Yelena felt an ominous foreboding.

‘Figuring out the crown prince, even when I had rejected that invitation, he’d most likely maintain sending extra.’

Yelena had already sensed his obstinance from the truth that he had despatched a royal topic together with the invitation.

‘I’m obligated to just accept no less than one invitation that comes from the royal household… And if I’ve no selection however to attend no less than one in every of their events, it would as nicely be the one the place I may be seen by Her Highness the Crown Princess.’

Yelena sighed belatedly.

‘I don’t know if I made the suitable selection.’

Then, she heard two knocks on the door. Knock, knock.

“Are available in.”

The door opened and in got here Yelena’s husband, sporting banquet apparel and a white masks.

“We’ll take our go away now. Please name us once more when you want us.”

Abbie was fast to learn the room, leaving with the opposite maids. Nowadays, the citadel servants have been nicely conscious that the ducal couple spent a whole lot of alone time collectively.

“Kaywhin.”

Yelena checked out Kaywhin with a troubled expression as he approached her.

On another day, Yelena wouldn’t have been Kaywhin’s face, however on the tightly-closed buttons on his shirt. However proper now, she felt so anxious that she didn’t even discover how well-dressed her husband was.

“Will issues be okay?”

Kaywhin acquired down on one knee in entrance of the place Yelena was seated. He regarded up at his spouse sweetly.

“Nothing unhealthy will occur. We’re simply attending a celebration.”

“However…”

Yelena hesitated after which closed her mouth.

‘Ought to I cease us from going?’

Yelena’s husband had mentioned that it was only a get together, however the truth that it was a ‘get together’ was what bothered her.

‘Lots of people will likely be on the get together.’

If her husband have been to seem, he would undoubtedly draw a whole lot of consideration. And honestly… it was tough to anticipate that the eye could be constructive.

Kaywhin quietly held Yelena’s hand, as if he had sensed her anguish. Then, he introduced it to his lips and kissed it.

“I’m okay.”

“…”

“I’ve you by my aspect, don’t I? I’ll be effective it doesn’t matter what occurs.”

“Kaywhin…”

His heat lingered on her pores and skin. Yelena blinked and stared carefully behind her hand, the place her husband’s lips had touched after which parted from. Then, she opened her mouth.

“I believe I’ll must do my make-up once more.”

“I’m sorry?”

“I don’t like my lip make-up. I need to take away and reapply it…”

The look in Yelena’s eyes modified subtly.

“May you assist me wipe it off, Darling?”

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