She froze and look up at me then Sol and the Sir Brandon. We all looked at her the each other in more confusion not knowing what set her off to react like that. Then the door open and my aunt walks in. Long black hair that ran across her back, pale diamond skin with high cheek bones that made her look younger than her years with deep forest green eyes just like my mothers and red painted lips. We all bow to her including me. Even though she is not the Duchess of RavenCrest anymore she is still my aunt. She has taking care of this place and kept it alive even after getting threats of invasions, monster attacks and even assassination attempts from other foreign territories and to me that deserves respect.
"Dowager Duchess."
"Little Duchess, Sol, Sir Brandon good you are all back. You need to go up stairs and change for dinner. Lizzy is waiting for you." She said. Usually aunt holds herself with a smooth grace and powerful gentleness (that's how they explain it to me. Whatever that means) to me my aunt was a legend an alpha amongst wolfs. She knew how to fight her way through a battle when she was at the edge of a cliff. She knew how to embody the true form of madness,the power of intelligent and the wisdom from above but right now she was off. It's unlike her to look like this and that means who ever is here is the one that made her feel this way.
"Aunt who is here?" I said carefully as I narrowed my eye at her.
"Ajax."
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There are moments in life when you try your hardest to achieve one goal. You push yourself to the max with no regards, nor care for the people around you just to achieve that goal. So much so in the end that one goal you have been pushing yourself to the ends of the earth is the same goal that has been killing you slow. I was that person who had one gaol, who push themselves to the cliff of death and that gaol or should I say person saw what was happening to me and still continue to push me over the cliff till I fall over into the dark cold night till I was nothing to him.
That's when I thought to myself 'was I ever anything to him than a tool he could use did he ever care for me as I care for him ,did he ever give me space in his heart as I gave my whole soul to him?Did he?'. That man I gave my all to was my husband and now as I am sitting here dining with my aunt, uncle and my psycho brother eating the finest roast beef with fresh grow vegetables from our gardens and smoked ham, apples sauce and gravy made by our best chef in the kingdom and here comes this psychopath brother tell me that I have to return to the kingdom to pay respect to the Emperor and to show or present myself to the court of nobility in the kingdom, show that I am the new Duchess of Reavencrest and that I take the duties and responsibilities of this kingdom and then take an oath that I stand by the Emperor and his word and that when duty calls I will come.
Is this why I stopped eating cause after I heard those words from my psycho brother it made me want to throw up everything I just ate. Now everything on the table looks like old rotting food now and it smells it.
Annoyed I asked"Why the hell do you think I will just go back with you dear brother."
My brother looks at me with is cold blue eyes and dark hair. "Cause you must." He said in a toneless voice.
"Aunt has already been to the capital to pay respects to his Majesty and to inform him that I will be the Duchess and that I will not be about to coming now nor in future per my health. He understood then what has changed now?" I asked. Feeling my anger raising. I glare at the my brother seeing that he is hiding something. I stopped closed my eyes and take a breath then open them as I leaned back in to my chair making the fancy pink and green dress my aunt got me in the capital and focused me to wear tonight make a scrunch up noise.
"Sweetheart I think we should continue this conversation after dinner" my aunt said as she saw the tention on the table.
"There is something you not tell me." I said. Then I analysed him closer and that's when I saw it, the pin that I have seen all my life. No matter where I go I could never forget that green and blue shield with the two swords crossing one another and a star above in the middle.My nightmare . I stilled as my eyes widen in shock then pulled myself straight forward and looked at him. The Count pendant was pinned on his right side of his all black suit. It may have been small but it was no mistaking it. It stood out from the all black suit he was wearing. The all black suit that he wore every time went to a funeral.
"Ajax…why are you wearing father's pendant?" I asked slowly, feeling the dread creeping up from behind me.
At the back of my mind I knew what he was going to say, I could feel it. I just wasn't ready to hear it.
He smiled a cold cruel smile and said with no emotion as he looked into my eyes " Fathers is no more Little flame."
Everything in the room stilled nobody moved nor breathed after what Ajax had said. At first I may have thought he was lying but then I remembered Ajax is not the kind of person who lies. He finds lying beneath him. He is the kind of person who prefers manipulating people around him to get his way, that is what he told me in my past life. He also said he finds it more entertaining that way. This is the reason why I know he's not lying. Basically it's just his nature.
(Will be releasing new chapters every day from today onwards thank you for taking the time to read my book I hope you enjoy it.)