Chapter Three: How Cruel Then "Where are you taking me?" Nicolas asked the question because of Edward herding him deeper into the palace. He thought he would have drawn him into the servant courters than actually getting him into what he could see was the more private part of the palace. "My room" Edward called out to the two maids that were in front of the both of them. "Go call doctor Winker quickly. Tell him it's a snake bite." The maids bowed to him but didn't move. As if rooted in their positions. An outraged Edward yelled at them for this. "I said go call the doctor!" "So sorry but we can't duke" Nicolas felt lightheaded. The snake bite wasn't just painful but it made him sick to the stomach. The last time he learnt about the snake it was said that it only had a sharp bite he didn't know that it also made one feel as if the world was going round and round. Had it not been for Edward's support now he would have fallen over a long time ago. "What are you talking about
Chapter Four: Rose Is Not Yours The moment Nicolas left the room Edward got up from his sitted position. Started from the bed itself, taking the pillows and everything on the down to the floor. He went on to throw and break everything he could grab in his room. It wasn't helping though. He still felt like he had been ripped apart. He still felt his heart being chewed on by the dogs that got the left over meals. He still felt like drowning himself into a puddle of his own tears. And he had an urge for something that he knew would sink down all these emotions. The one thing that he always ran to when he felt exactly like this. When the world had made him wish like he was dead. He was thirsty for it. He longed for the bitter sweetness and he was hungry for the taste of forgetting. He wanted to make it all disappear from his mind. His heart and his soul. He wanted Nicolas out. He wanted the darn roses out of his drawers and he wanted to forget that he had ever thought of a poss
Chapter Five: Queen Mother Arthur closed his eyes with his head comfortably on Michael's lap. He opened his mouth to tell him about the craziness he just got out from. "What is all this fighting about the Nina family 's only daughter?" Michael didn't know what he was talking about so he needed to elaborate. "It seems Edward's hide and seek game with the marriage plans have finally been put to an end." He smiled thinking of something. "I won't be surprised to know that this whole drama is just a way to make him finally marry the girl. He has been at this for years." Michael still made no reaction to the matter. Making Arthur to open his eyes now. "Husband and co-ruler of our kingdom what is wrong? Tell me" Michael brushed at Michael's head on his lap. "Edward and that Nicolas." "What of them?" "I don't feel like they are fighting for Rose's hand. The fight they are displaying to me is something else." Arthur was the confused one now. "What could that be?" "Don't tell m
Chapter Six: Duke And A Hand Morning, day and evening was the same thing for the Duke who has returned back to his old habit of going to the bottle when he felt confused, frustrated or angry about something or the other. And this was no different. He was the only one who had been at the bar since the early hours of the morning. And he was still the same person who drank more than anyone else in the bar. The bottles on his table were even scattered around the floor because there was no space for them in table anymore. "What kind of life is this?" even though it was drunken stupor everyone in the bar turned their heads to listen to the duke. All interested in hearing what he had to say. "Who lives this life anymore? Who?" He laughed at himself. "Aunt Mury! I curse you for giving me an impossible task! What kind of task is this?!" According to him children weren't meant for men like him. Lazy men. He didn't want a child because he knew he wouldn't be able to live up to the
Chapter Seven: I'm Hurt Rose could see that there was no life whatsoever in Nicolas' eyes. He was looking at her but she could see that he wasn't really paying attention to anything but his thoughts. Which was very understandable. She didn't expect him any other way in fact. The man had just received the worst kind of news. He had seen something that no son and no child should have seen. His parents died in a way that wasn't at all saliva swallowing. What happened to them was just horrible. She also could understand why she was the first person he decided to go to just after seeing everything. She wasn't there herself but from the gossips it was said to be a very horrific scene. That both his parents were brutally murdered outside the queen mother's house. They both were in a pool of their own blood. The images put into her mind were just enough to give her shivers and she was sure she would get nightmares as well but what would the man whose parents those were feel? Wha
Chapter Eight: They were tired Edward woke up a while ago. From a nightmare that made him jump up from his sleep and it seemed to sobered him up. And after he heard of what happened to Nicolas' parents he couldn't help but feel emotional about it. His parents' deaths weren't similar to Nicolas' but it didn't mean they both didn't lose parents. He could not imagine how Nicolas felt about it. Losing parents was one thing but losing them in such a way was something else. He had his diary on his lap ready to write on it but before he could the door of his room swung open. "Nicolas" he got up from his bed placing the diary without a care on the bed. As he headed to where Nicolas stood by the door. "Did you hear?" Nicolas asked in a whisper like voice? Edward nodded. "I heard." Nicolas took one of his hands. "Rose said to give you this." A ring was placed on his finger. A ring that he didn't recognize. He wanted to ask why Rose would give him the ring but he was too curious
Chapter Nine: That Mean Old Lady Aunt Mury got into the room. She was mad. She had her hands on her hips. Which could only mean that she was ready to let everything loose. "How could you?!" She yelled at her brother's son. "You useless idiotic boy!" She had raised him with everything she had. She had taught him everything he needed to know in the kind of life that he would lead. But still the boy had the guts to do so much with her there. "Do not look at me as if you have no knowledge of what I speak of!" She shouted at Edward who was trying to look innocent in her eyes. "I don't believe that it is Mury's raising that has made you into this imbecile that stands before me." She was harsh with words that she knew but this was necessary to bring the boy from whatever world he thought he was in. "You are a duke now. A hand to the kingdom but tomorrow boy if you continue like this there won't be any titles for you. I so promise you on that!" Edward still looked as if he di
Chapter Ten: Adorable little angel In the nursery room there were loud noises from the tiny humans of the house. Harty had his hands full trying to silence both his twin girls while he had to also feed them their breakfast. "Ugh" he groaned watching his two crying daughters. "Why are you so loud?" He didn't remember hearing children so loud. Well that would be because children didn't really know how to act in front of him. They either got scared and hid or they just ignored him. Now there was no escaping this. These were both his lovely daughters. Crying as if there was no tomorrow. "You're so cute when you are silent don't you think?" The one who was good with the both of them was Justin who just like the wind had vanished right now because of the murder case. He and some of the knights were given orders to invest into it. "That they are" a voice coming from behind him started him. He saw his aunt when she came around to stand in front of him. Her smile on as if it was an a