Fake Princess
CHAPTER 133
I leaned against the barn wall. “ So now everything. And he hasn't... said anything about it since finding me..” I let my words hang while biting my lips. I've spent a lot of time worrying about how to tell Devan that he can't love me anymore, but I don't realize Devan hasn't brought that up since finding me. Maybe the things I was worried about while inside Melani's cell were true. Maybe I've hurt Devan too much already, for using that spell on him. Maybe Decan only caught up with me because we were friends, because he felt guilty after letting me go alone.
“ She hasn't said anything,” reset Bella in a flat tone. “ As long as we rode across the countryside with the Melani guards who were in front or behind us, and every night I slept only a few jengkal from you.” Bella shook her head in disgust. “ For a girl who is supposed to get the whole education there, you can be stupid too, Amelia.”
“ What?” I said with ketus.
Bella bends her body until her face approaches mine, then she says, slowly, as you do when you talk to a child, “ She loves you. Everyone can see it. He's following you, isn't he? Admitting his mistake for abandoning you?”
I put my shoulders down. “ We've been friends since I was born, or almost that long.”
“ How to look at you is not like someone who thinks you are just a friend.”
“ It doesn't matter,” I insist. The doubt that Melani had been in, which I had pondered for so long while in her cell, burned up again in me. “ What will he get by loving me? He is still the son of an Earl and I. Her family would never allow me to marry her. Before we left, his parents had lined up the girls in the palace to be chosen by Devan, the girls who had titles and treasures. It makes no difference even though Devan loves me. We can't unite.”
I looked up at Bella. Devan, don't you get the girl of his family's choice? It has never been done, not in Thorvaldor's noble family. You married to build a bond with another noble, to strengthen your family's position. Sometimes you also get love, but it's just luck that can be considered a bonus.
“ And you. You're willing to fight an impossible battle to put me on the throne, but you won't fight for him?”
“ I never said that,” I said, offended, “ I was just—“ But I could not continue, because right at that moment I heard the clinking of the saddle of a horse, then saw Devan riding his horse.
Devan got off his horse after staring around to make sure there was no one around. “ I don't think anyone saw me,”. “ I bought a drink at the inn and got information from the people who were there. The king was buried two days after his death.” Devan was silent, his eyes were on me. All this time the King was not a good father, but he was the closest father to me. It was painful when I realized I would never see him again. But I didn't have time to grieve, so I just exhaled through my tight chest, and hinted for Devan to continue the story.
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