Published at 5th of January 2021 09:47:20 AM
Chapter 19
They stared into each other’s eyes, as if trying to inspect the other . A long silence passed, yet neither of them broke eye contact .
“I changed my mind, Sid . ” The princess was the first one to interrupt the silence . “We should raise this baby wolf my aunt has abandoned . ”
Uriel Biche was locked in a small room in the Star Palace, and he was lost in thought . He’d known this was an unusual mission from the start . And now it turned out that the mission was to assassinate Petra Liefer’s niece, the princess .
He closed his eyes again and recalled his conversation with her .
“Are you here to kill me?”
He didn’t understand how she’d been so calm asking such a depressing question . That girl who carried herself like a queen, who looked at him with a piercing gaze, who saw even his smallest weakness . That girl who could make quick judgment without mistakes .
Yet he could see that that fearless girl had still been shaken by their exchange .
“How old are you?”
Uriel remembered her expression . Her face was pale, and shone with the arrogance of a ruler . Her eyes, the color of fire, were as cold as ice . Yet there was a glimpse of compassion in those eyes . Then she’d smiled .
Uriel knew what that expression meant, but he doubted what he’d seen .
From the time when he’d been born in the shantytown to when he’d become one of Safiro’s wolves, there’d been many people who’d shown interest in him . Their faces were blurred in his mind . Yet out of all of them, he remembered very few who’d ever shown him their emotions .
“Go away, you filthy beast!”
Disgust .
“This is our district! You can’t beg here, so piss off!”
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Possession .
“You stole the bread, you bastard!”
Anger .
“Hello, you pretty boy . Would you like to follow me? You’ll be able to eat delicious things every day . ” Lustful gazes would follow him through the streets, gazes of nobles who wanted his beauty for themselves .
“I, Safiro, am your master . I’ve done everything for you . To pay me back, you must live like a dog . ”
Safiro . The one who’d kidnapped, branded, and whipped the 11-year-old Uriel . He said things like that often, and Uriel would see a glimpse of pleasure in his eyes .
Yet the face of the girl who smiled at Uriel now was different from anyone he’d ever met before .
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“We should raise the baby wolf my aunt abandoned . ”
Just for a moment, for the first time in his life, he’d felt a flash of hope .
It was just before dawn, and Apollonia and Sid were working on the first steps of their plan .
Petra’s assassin would fail his mission, and go missing without a trace . Knowing Petra, she’d suspect Apollonia . Apollonia had no intention to reveal the spirit stone’s barrier, nor the fact that she’d been prepared for the attack .
Their plan was to act in the loudest, most noticeable way possible .
“Ahhhhhhhhh!” A little after midnight, a girl’s shriek echoed through the palace .
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“Pe-pervert!” It didn’t take long for people to come rushing into the room . The first to come were her escort, Sid Baian, and her personal maid, Maya . Several other servants, some of them barefoot, skidded into the room not long after .
“What’s the matter, Your Highness?!”
The princess, sobbing in Sid’s arms, explained what had happened .
She’d been awake in the middle of the night to get some water, when she heard the window rattling . When she got up to see what it was, there was a black-robed man behind the window, trying to open it . The man thrust open the window, and quickly tried to slip in and cover her mouth, but he was too late . She’d screamed as loud as she could .
“Thank god I wasn’t asleep yet . A madman must’ve fallen in love with you when he saw you at the banquet . ” Sid patted Apollonia, who was trembling . He gritted his teeth . Other servants in the background were murmuring in anger, and they sent for the guard .
Only Apollonia, Sid and Maya knew the truth about the man’s identity; that he was an assassin . Since the emperor greatly favored Crown Prince Paris as his successor, it didn’t even occur to anyone that there would be an assassination attempt on Apollonia .
Note: Extra chapter is released thanks to winning the Discord poll .