“What?”
“What!”
“I didn’t expect to see him here, milady. I thought he’s busy in the capital that we won’t get a chance to meet”
“It’s him you were talking about? The two of you broken up because he’s sick of long distance relationship?”
“Yes, milady”
“I think we should go”
Amelia hold a piece of paper saying “Do or Die” with a red mark on it. She found it under the door where someone slide it down for us to see.
“We, probably should go”
“It’s too dangerous, milady”
“It’s okay. We’ll get out of this alive”
“B..but”
“It’s okay. Calm down, we need to think a plan”
“I’ll do my best to protect you, milady”
“Thank you”
“I’ll talk to him”
“Don’t go there alone. Don’t go out. It’s too dangerous”
I stopped Scarlet from going out. We don’t know yet how psycho he is. He’s sending us some death threats over dinner. I think, there’s more to this. I need to think what’s his purpose.
We were silent the entire time. Nobody utter a single word. I know some of them were thinking what to do. Scarlet was in the sofa slumping while Amelia was beside of the window, watching the sea waves.
**********
On the other hand, as soon as the crown prince and his brother returned to the palace. The first prince immediately go to his office room while his brother followed him. They were walking to the corridors, there are lots of servants and soldiers bowed to them if they see their presence.
There’s a big door ahead but, the second prince asked a question that made the first prince stopped.
“Brother? Why did you visit Sebastian earlier?”
“I need an urgent audience with him”
“What?”
“Let’s go inside, first”
As soon as the two were inside. The first prince head to his table and grab some documents. While, the second prince sit on the couch.
“Why? You didn’t told me about that”
“It’s urgent”
“Why? The two of you don’t have a good relationship, why did he agreed voluntarily? As far as I know, he won’t accept things as long as it had some highest value”
“Yeah”
“Wait, does that mean you have valuable items there, brother? What did you do?”
“A woman”
“What?! And he just accepted?”
“Yeah”
“I didn’t received a report that he’s a womanizer”
“You are”
“No, I’m not. I’m just being polite to the ladies earlier”
“Right”
“By the way, what’s this urgent things you asked him to do?”
“I let him board on a ship”
“Why?”
“To spy someone”
“Who?”
“Why are you asking anyway?”
“I’m curious. You were in a bad mood earlier, you know?”
“I’m not”
“Yes, you are”
“No”
“You were aggressive. You decided on that spot, when it’s not on our schedule. You were given the coachman to visit Sebastian in one minute. How absurd is that?”
“I need to asked him, since his home is on the west anyways. I think it’s the perfect chance to go home as well”
“Isn’t that the ship who will depart so soon?”
“I delayed it for an hour”
“What?!”
The second prince sit on the couch. He put her hands on his head while processing what his brother did.
“Why did you do that? Just tell me directly”
“It’s confidential”
“What? You told me not to keep a secret or else you’re going to investigate it. How unfair is that, brother?”
“It’s my private life”
“Then, I don’t have a private life then?”
“Yeah, you’re a prince”
“It’s about a girl, right?”
The first prince flinched when his brother mentioned a girl. It seems he’s sensitive to that topic.
“Yes, I’m right. So, this is the lady whom you’re interested with?”
He didn’t response coming from his older brother.
“And why is she on the west”
“I didn’t anticipate that this will happen so, I asked Sebastian to spy them for me”
“Anticipate? What do you mean?”
“Our intelligence group told me, that she’s going to the east, to stay at his father’s villa but”
The crown prince smiled as he was thinking, how intelligent this girl is. Actually, he already send troops to the east to protect her but, he didn’t know that it’s a false information.
“She outsmart us”
“Do you mean? She already planned this carefully?”
“Maybe”
“What the heck. This means that she’s capable to do that?”
“I don’t know”
“Oh my? My brother got a false information for the first time”
“It’s mean we need to strengthen our intelligence, isn’t that right?”
“What will you do?”
"Stricter rules"
********
The sun is setting slowly. There’s a knock in our door that breaks the silence and tension in atmosphere. It’s one of the attendant of the ship.
“Sir Sebastian told me to deliver this to you”
After she put the three boxes on our bed. She left. We were contemplating whether we open it or not. In the end, we opened it.
There’s a three dresses, a red, a baby blue and a gray color. The red is a seductive dress which goes to Scarlet. It’s a split dress with a black heels that’s covered with shining stones.
While I have an off shoulder baby blue dress. Amelia had a gray cocktail dress with embroidery. How did we know that it’s ours? Our names were written on the box.
“Do I really need to wear this? It’s too revealing for me. Does he think I’m a hostess?”
“Calm down, scarlet”
“Why do we need a dress? It’s only a dinner”
“I don’t know”
“What’s he planning?”
Another attendant comes in to help fixed ourselves. We wear the clothes that Sebastian had send to us, a lighter make up for me and Amelia while Scarlet had a smoky eyes which made her more fierce.
After that, we lined up to go upstairs where the attendant escort us to where the dinner held. It was on the function hall. There are many nobles who were there with different ethnicity.
“Oho? There you are, my ladies”
Sebastian was waving to us when he’s in front of us he bowed and smiled mischievously which made me more nervous.
This will be a long night.