COUNT SALAH CONFESS'S
Chapter 39
Arabella, who had been waiting for her brother, was finally able to meet Crown Prince Felix.
"Sorry to keep you waiting." Felix is approaching
Arabella was waiting for him.
"Well, it doesn't matter..." Arabella smiled in greeting her brother.
"There was an urgent matter, so it had to make you
waiting." But the butler Mino told Arabella, but it looks like Felix is trying to explain.
"No problem, brother.." Arabella said with a smile.
"How are you?"
"I'm good, what about brother?"
"Well, the situation is chaotic so I'm very busy and sleep deprived. Look. What my eye bags are.
starting to look?" Felix moved his face closer for his sister to see.
Thanks to Felix's joke. Arabella wanted to laugh but was arrested. Despite the lack of sleep, Arabella is convinced that the palace will make a series of treatments for her brother, given his status as Crown Prince, especially he does not yet have a fiancee and Crown Princess candidates.
Looking at the amused Arabella, Felix also smiled. Lies
it feels like Felix doesn't know his sister's situation. But he himself also did not have the strength to protect his sister, so he was busy to strengthen his place.
“Arabella, how old are you now?” Ask Felix casually.
Degs…
Arabella could guess the direction of this chat.
“18 Year Old.” Arabella replied with a smile, but her heart was agitated.
“So yes...”
Felix wasn't testing his sister just for trivial questions. The reason he asked questions
that's because Felix knows enough about the life cycle of the royal family if he is a woman.
Be cared for and raised wholeheartedly, like a sacrificial animal that in time will only be sacrificed. Arabella
already growing into a mature woman, she was beautiful and brilliant, although her label remained a foolish woman. But Felix realized that his sister was not as stupid as the rumors. Felix was convinced that
Arabella is a smart woman, she can even survive in the palace without anyone's support
because his mother is dead. The kingdom is in a time of territorial war due to the many divisions
across the border. Now was the perfect time for the King to take out the pawn he had taken care of in his palace. One of them is Arabella.
Felix poured darjeeling tea into his glass.
“Arabella…. Do you know why I called you here?”
Arabella smiled wryly, she knew very well that she would not be summoned to the residence of the Crown Prince's palace
if nothing is important.
“Entahlah Sis...” Arabella said as she sipped her tea.
Felix also took a sip of the warm tea, after which he stared intently at Arabella.
“Really?”
This time it was Arbella who turned to look at her brother with a serious look.
“You can definitely guess how you are doing now right?”
Well is not the answer. Arabella was walking on the palace's barbed street that had inflicted her wounds everywhere.
“So what do you really want to say?”
The impatient Arabella immediately demanded the points of his brother who was being hidden.
“Hahaha Felix laughed very hard.
“Really... My sister is a talented actress!”
“.....?”
“How can there be rumors circulating that my beautiful sister is
idiiot and boodoh.”
Arabella knew that Felix the elder brother was not as easily fooled as the servants or nobles in Wistoria. His sister knew very well how palace life was and also tried many things to be able to survive from a suffocating position and have great responsibility.
Looking at Arabella's already slightly irritated face, Felix smiled. Pleasantly
once can tease his cute sister.
“I just offered an offer, I thought it was the best
for you.”
Arabella. ‘Offer?’ his inner.
would hurt.
“I told you the situation is precarious not.”
“.....?”
“Quickly or later, Dad will definitely sell you!”
Degs....
Arabella knew it for sure, but hearing it straight from someone else's mouth still made her anxious and agitated at once.
“For that I gave you a choice.”
“.....?”
“Married!”
Arabella had expected it, but it still left her shocked.
‘With whom this time he will be sold?’
“With local nobility of my choice.” Felix's unilateral words still make
Arabella wonders.
“She's a good person and has a good reputation, Dad won't either
against it.”
Felix still gives the riddle. Arabella felt very frustrated because her brother who was very good at rhetoric did not immediately express who the person was.
“Can I refuse it?”
“Hahaha Felix laughed again because his sister was so not
sabbath.
“Arabella, you must think well before making a decision
your rashness it.”
Felix was right, many times Arabella quickly summed up the situation and instead pushed him into the abyss of misery.
“If you have a better option or option, I will accept it,
but if you don't consider my offer.”
“The person I'm going to pair with you is my own friend. Deron
Zanibun, the one who will inherit the title of Marquess!”
“....?”
He was one of the commanders of the famous rose knight army, so how could Abella not know who Deron was. Well being a Marchioness is not a bad thing, especially March or the territory led by Marquess Zanibun is on the southern border, so Abella will leave
the palace was like hell to him. That's if Arabella doesn't refuse. But I don't know, Arabella felt she needed consideration even though she actually had no other options.
The things his brother offered were very tempting
“Think carefully, good things do not come repeatedly. As a brother, I am too
hope your spring comes soon. Arabella!”
Felix ended the conversation, because he also had business. Felix gives Arabella
3 Days to think and make a decision. The time is short but also actually this to avoid his father immediately make a decision about Arabella, because the nobility has been a lot of voices to forge alliances with neighboring countries. One of them is with the Kingdom of Burj, a place
the bastard Prince Yaser is from.
Arabella returned to her residence with a chaotic feeling. It's time it turned out. He's been working hard
build an image like an idiott person but it turns out that does not really help him. Well at least she wasn't sold at 16 like Princess 1.
To whom he should share this grievance. The only person he remembers and wants him to be
meet is his uncle. People who even exist in a dark world and live in an alley
shantytowns.
As his brother said, Deron is a good human being and a good choice, but I don't know
why her heart was doubtful, on top of her reflection, Arabella remembered someone she had once fooled and she stepped on her pride. But he was also the one who had helped him when facing Prince Yaser, the one who wanted to
harassed him.
‘He is handsome and intelligent, also very patient!’
Suddenly, Arabella realized what she had just thought!
His life was not necessarily safe, how could he possibly think of anything else.
Arabella continued her daydreaming activities, the more she dissolved thinking about her tangled life.