Jennifer Williams
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"A welcome banquet?" Rosalind smiled at Dorothy's maid, Lellana. With her brown hair and large brown eyes, Lellana looked almost innocent, except for the smirk on her face, that is. "Yes, Miss Dorothy has asked everyone to prepare a welcome banquet for you. Though…" "What is it?" Rosalind asked, frowning. "Did something happen to my sister? Is that why she stopped seeing me?" "No —" Lellana shook her head. "No. It's not like that. The Young Lady has been very busy with — with the clothes."…
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Dorothy's face shifted between discomfort and awkwardness as she patted Rosalind's back, but this wasn't enough to stop Rosalind from wailing, attracting everyone's attention around them. Rosalind's constant crying left Dorothy speechless. "What is happening?" Rosalind sniffed and finally let her older sister go. "Who would make too much noise at the entrance of the Lux Mansion?" The one who spoke was none other than her very own father, the Marquess Martin Lux— the current patriarch of the Lux…
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"Young lady, I have heard weird rumors about the madam," Milith lowered her voice as she was serving her tea. "It seems that the madam wanted to dine with the Duke and he refused to see her. He even refused to talk to her or even greet her. Do you think he is not aware that we are from the Lux Family?" Rosalind's lips twitched. The Duke was purposely doing it because… he can, and he had no qualms in showing it to Victoria. "Aren't we going to arrive in the capital soon?" she asked. "Yes, in a few…
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There was silence. A thick, suffocating silence. Then he started laughing. She frowned. What if people around his carriage heard him laugh ominously? They would think the young Duke had lost his mind. "It seems that the rumors about the young lady being smitten with the young duke were true," he said. "Smitten?" she asked. "You haven't heard about what your stepmother wanted your servants to spread around the capital?" "I don't— " she swallowed as realization hit her. "She had sent someone…
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"I dislike anything sweet," Duke Lucas said after a few minutes of awkward silence. The moment he arrived, he offered her a seat across from him and she quickly took it saying nothing. She glanced at the brewing tea in front of them as she tried to avoid the Duke's gaze. "For this visit, I chose to give the emperor the most bitter tea that I can offer to the empire. It shows my undying appreciation for the support that the empire has given to the Kingdom over the years." Rosalind's lips twitched. She…
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He's alive? She narrowed her eyes and immediately turned her attention towards her stepmother who just got out of the carriage. "I am going inside the tent," she mummered. "Stay outside and watch them." "I understand." Milith nodded. Once inside, she started pacing as she thought about the man that she saved on the river. Before that she met a red-eyed man, she left that man in the bushes thinking that the other men would find him and kill him. She didn't even bother to hide that man's body. But…
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The trip to the capital would take them two days. And in that two days, Rosalind already planned to be as close to Victoria as possible. And that meant crying her hearts out every single time that they were close to each other. How could she not? Her mother left her in this wilderness for five years? Because of this, Victoria insisted she slept in the carriage instead of sleeping in a tent with Rosalind and Milith. Obviously, Rosalind got teary-eyed, but this time, Victoria pretended not to notice…
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"We need to hurry." Victoria looked at the head of the knight that accompanied them on this journey. "Where are they?" She asked for the umpteenth time. She had sent two people to find Rosalind earlier, but Rosalind is already back. Judging from her not looking hurt, Victoria concluded that traveling through the forest wasn't that hard after all. Sadly, the knights that she sent out had yet to come back. "Madam, I already sent someone to find them. However, I was informed that the terrain is…
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3 hours later "My lord. No one else is around." Duke Lucas Benjamen Rothley frowned at his subordinate word. "But?" he asked. "But we found traces of someone climbing on the cliff. Whoever it was must have used some type of magic or have a trained body." Lucas lifted an eyebrow. Then he looked at the spot where the woman was sitting the other night. He was certain she was there and that he had talked to her, but he could no longer find any traces of her when he woke up. Almost immediately, he…
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To someone who had eaten a mouse, cockroach, and lizard for the sake of healing her body, Rosalind would never refuse to eat a roasted snake. And that might have come as a surprise to the stranger. He had been staring at her as she gobbled up a portion of the snake without gagging. "You eat snakes," he uttered. "And you don't," she fired back. "There were no snakes… where I lived." By now, she was certain he was from the North. The place was too cold, no snakes could survive ten months of…
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