Chapter 6

Clea Mair’s Pov

“So?” I raised my eyebrows at Miracle as soon as she got inside the house that she was renting.

She handed me the key to this house and let me go home first before her since she was still busy with her work at SweetHeart and I had been waiting for her in the living room to confront her.

“Why are you here?” I asked. “Why didn’t you even reach out to me?” I pointed at myself. “You know that I always worry about you, right?”

She sighed and sat beside me. “I am here because of an off-the-record mission from Dad,” she said. “It is related to Asper Reign Dahlia.”

I frowned. “What?”

She nodded. “No one knows what I am doing since it is a personal order from Dad,” she added. “And Asper is the owner of the shop where you held your meeting earlier.”

“Then, why didn’t you even try to call me?” I held her shoulders and shook her. “I have been trying to reach you more than you can but you were always out of reach!”

“Hey!” she shouted and cuffed my hand. “Asper is not the only one who needs to hide from the people who have been looking for her, okay?” I also need to be careful since Hector knows that I am one of the people that was tasked to find Asper.”

My brother, Hector, is a bit of an idiot. Because of that, a lot of ministers wanted to control him. And the first thing that they encourage him to do is to get Asper Reign Dahlia into his side by marrying her.

Asper is the director of Rain Foundation, an influential non-government facility in the country that serves what the citizens of Hexoria need. And our citizens admire her more than the members of the royal family.

And because of that, the ministers were divided into two factions.

The first factions were set to do everything they could to make sure that she would become part of the Azaria Clan. They wanted to make use of her and her influence on the public, so they made a plan to ensure that Hector would marry her.

The second faction was set to get rid of her because they believed that she would ruin the power balance that had already existed in the palace.

She is part of the Dahlia Clan, the one that leads the Axia Region. They have the same power as the Azaria Clan before and if they want, they can use it to claim their rights to the throne. But it was taken from them because of the incident that was involved with the current Duke of Axia.

That is why some of the ministers also think that the Dahlia Clan wanted to take back the power that they had once inside the palace using the marriage that Hector had been trying to make.

I sighed. “I understand that,” I said. “But you should at least call me from time to time.”

We may have been in a strange family and grew up not close to each other because of some royal protocol, but we still try our best to patch our relationship with each other.

Our relationship with our brothers was already shattered because of his stupidity. I don’t want my relationship with her to get destroyed too.

That is why as much as possible, I want to talk to her. Even just a simple hi or hello. Even just a simple update on what was happening in our lives.

“Anyway, what about you?” she asked. “Why did you fly all the way here just to meet Andrel Henan?”

“Work-related,” I said. “The company that I worked for needed to get his approval to dock in his port. We are also renting a warehouse there for our product.”

She frowned. “Do you really have to go here?” she said. “His main office is in Teur City, right?”

“He had urgent matters to attend to here and instead of canceling our appointment, he proposed to change our meeting place here,” I stated. “And I agreed since they shouldered my transportation. Besides, we need to sort this issue out as soon as possible so setting another appointment will only give us more problems.”

She narrowed her eyes while staring at me. “Tell me, you didn’t do anything to seduce that man to get his approval, right?”

I frowned and pointed at myself. “Seriously? Do you really think I can do that?”

She stared at me a little longer and sighed. “Well, I trust you. But Andrel Raven Henan has a reputation as a playboy. And there have been a lot of rumors going around that he has been sexually involved with the female representatives of the company that wants to collaborate with his company,” she said. “It was like, they need to use their body just to get his favor for their company.”

“That is also the advice that I got from the woman who helped me set an early appointment with Mister Henan,” I said. “But I am not that kind of woman.”

Though to be honest, those women didn’t seduce him to get his approval. They seduce him because he is handsome and manly. Almost everyone who entered the shop earlier couldn’t help but stare in his direction.

“Let’s cook something for dinner.” She stood up and walked to the kitchen. “Are you going to stay here for a couple of days?”

I followed her. “Yeah,” I answered. “We still have to discuss the rest of the agreement and other sets of rules that we are going to put in the contract before finalizing it. I don’t know when we are going to finish that.”

“Okay.” She opened the refrigerator and checked its contents. “I will stock up on some things that you might need here.” She took out a couple of things and turned to me. “Do you have a car that you can use?”

I shook my head. “But we agreed on meeting up at SweetHeart,” I said. “Maybe I can come with you.”

The ambiance of that shop is nice and it is good to stay there for a while. Even though I wait there, I am sure I won’t get bored.

She frowned. “Are you going to idle there until your appointment?”

I nodded. “Can I?” I asked. “Don’t worry, I will order something to eat.” I don’t want to stay alone in this house so it is better for me to come with her to SweetHeart.

She scratched her head and sighed. “Well, I am sure that Asper will not go there but just in case, use the table in the corner, okay?”

“Okay.”

She cooked our dinner and I was amazed by that since she never tried to learn about cooking when she was still living in the palace. She was kind of a brat before since Dad was spoiling her too much, but everything has changed in the past three years.

I smiled as I watched her and felt proud because she managed to do what she wanted without the help of our family. What she has right now is the fruit of her hard work and no one can take that away from her.

But at the same time, I also feel a little bit of envy.

When do I have the courage to do what I want to do?