Canceled Duke'S Engagement With Contact Fiancee
Chapter 4 Asha and Caius

When Asha wakes up in the morning a small box next to her desk welcomes her again, since she was a child until now there are hundreds of gifts sent by someone mysterious, his gifts from a letter, romantic poetry to items that could cost a price to build a mansion. The gift is always received by Asha without knowing who the person who sent it to him, he said, once he waited for the person who sent the gift but strangely he fell asleep and he looked back at the gift on the table next to his bed.

Although Asha did not know who the sender was, she sincerely replied whenever a gift was given by writing a letter. The letters are always lost and replaced by gifts which means the figure receives his letter. Today Caius his fiancee will come to the mansion to be judged by both Asha's parents, when it comes to Asha quickly descending from the stairs in a hurry while her parents just finished getting ready.

"Caius, welcome to the Edelstein residence,"

"Thank you for taking the time to come to this mansion even though you are very busy" Asha said with a respectful and gentle smile towards the man who had just stepped off the horse carriage

It looks like the man in front of him, bringing a gift in the form of a bouquet of flowers and a box of chocolates to meet, to meet, this made Asha's parents feel that this man was really a person who had good manners like royalty.

"I've heard from my daughter that you're the man my daughter's betrothed to,"

"It would be a shock if a man who came from a merchant family had manners similar to nobles,"

"As far as I know that the merchants can only speak sweetly without saluting anyone in front of him" Asha's father said with a laugh that was quite satisfied with his daughter's choice

"Mr Duke, you praise me too much,"

"I couldn't possibly not have learned the manners of nobles, if I wanted to meet the figure of the old man taking care of my fiancee,"

"I was so curious as to whether the old man who educated my fiancee to the point that she became such a beautiful and sweet female figure as this,"

"So it turns out that his parents loved him so much that I wanted to thank his mother and father for raising him," caius's words made Asha's mother look at her daughter with a look of agreement that this man would be engaged to Asha, but of course just by saying will not make the two Asha parents satisfied just like that.

Caius was let in by Asha's parents without caring for his daughter who was still outside the mansion, although as in stepchildren by both parents he can only assume it is normal. Caius stopped his steps and asked Asha's parents to go to the dining room first because he had to wait for Asha to become his fiancee.

"Thank you for waiting for me and I'm sorry,"

"Definitely the difficulty is yes, having to face the two parents," said Asha with a tired look considering the behavior of both parents, as she said, then the head was answered by a gentle looking man in his eyes towards Asha

Asha tried to think positively to a man who was so patient with his parents, when clearly he was only engaged to a contract. But Asha must remember that she is only engaged on paper to men who are similar to her type.

Asha and Caius then followed to the dining room to eat together, in the dining room there was a light conversation until the father touched on the problems of the Aelfraed family who proposed to his family.

"Caius, you are the lucky man of all men because my daughter even burned the engagement letter that was sent to Edelstein many times,"

"She's so frankly looking at relationships with other men," said Asha's father made Caius feel pain impaled so deeply because it was appropriate that so far there was no response from the Edelstein family about the proposed engagement, it was thought that the Edelstein family had forgotten or even the letter never arrived because there were bandits who blocked the letter to the Edelstein family but he did not think the letter to be one of the garbage for the fireplace.

Since he was currently Caius Vil a merchant, there was not much he could do with his fiancee whom he loved. Regret or being truly loved I don't know what Caius felt. Until finally the serious talk in the dining room was discussed by Asha's parents.

"Asha, the day after tomorrow accompany your mother to Duke Aelfraed's birthday party,"

"Dad is still in a meeting with the other four heads of the Duke's family so I ask you to go with your mother not to come along when it is nearing the closing of the event on purpose," the father's words made Asha look bleakly at the father while Caius felt that all this time Asha was deliberately doing it not because he was busy but lazy to attend

Not long after that breakfast was finished Asha's father and mother went to the kingdom, since there was an important meeting with the royal family therefore he would leave Asha with Caius inside the mansion together with the servants as well. Afterwards the two drank tea together in the garden gazebo and a question flashed across Caius' mind.

"Asha, don't you like Duke Aelfraed?" caius asked with a curious look

"Rummer..."

"If I'm being honest he's a great and wonderful person but he likes someone, I can't tell you the details,"

"And if I become his fiancee then perhaps a cold sword will pierce through this life because I will become the third person later,"

"So I decided to be a girl who wouldn't like it,"

"Death is not creepy but the pain is not avenged and the sacrifice that will make regretful life," said Asha who stared at the tea in the cup with a sad look and a bitter smile

Caius who was staring and listening to Asha seemed to feel pain when he was currently not the son of the Duke family, but as Caius an information guild leader. Because at this time the atmosphere felt awkward Caius tried to melt the atmosphere by asking other things.

"Asha, are you going to enter the academy?" caius asked with a curious look

"No, I'll decide to study at the mansion just invite the teacher to the mansion,"

"And also I don't want to get involved in any quarrels or the socialite world of the nobles because that is the purpose of the academy,"

Canceled Duke's Engagement With Contact Fiancee