The Atrocious Duke'S Wife
{Season 2} Queen?!

Previousley....

It shouldn't be like this. The one who is hurt is not me but him.

But I was the one who cried like this.

You're right Cassandra, everything you say is true.

I'm.ego.

...~ The Atrocious Duke's Wife...

...Chapters ...

...(38) ...

"His ankle is broken, did the Countess just have a pretty bad accident?" ask the healer who had just been called by Arlen to come check on the condition of his injured girlfriend.

Anastasia folded her lips, before long she sighed and began to speak. "Yes, that's right. Cassandra just fell from the ravine" he replied.

"so. For a while, it was better for the Countess not to move much first. I'll give you the medicine, and make sure the Countess eats it regularly as prescribed." The doctor then packed his things.

"All right, thank you, Doctor." Anastasia said and replied to a bow of respect by the physician earlier.

"That's been my job. Then, I resigned, My Lord, My Lady," the doctor then walked out of Cassandra's room.

After a pretty gripping incident earlier, they finally returned to the Cassandra residence with the car that Arlen brought.

The room was very quiet, as the owner was currently lying weakly with sweat flooding his forehead, indicating that the brown barley girl was holding back the pain in her sleep.

Anastasia was bowed while playing her fingernails. Not infrequently he glanced at the man beside him who was staring at Cassandra with a faint look of worry.

He wanted to say something, but again doubt prevented him.

"You want to say something?" tanya Arlen made Anastasia gasp.

Can this man read his mind?

"How do you know that I want to say something?" anastasia asked in curiosity.

"Your movements say it. You always play your nails when you want to talk about something you can't say" Arlen explained.

"How did you know that?"

"Of course it's because you've been my best friend for so long."

Anastasia smiled. He thought, after getting to know Cassandra, Arlen would immediately forget everything about her. However, the man still remembered himself as his best friend.

Even Arlen knows his habits, somehow it makes him a little happy. Although Anastasia had to gulp down a bitter statement, if the man put his feelings on Cassandra.

But that no longer bothered him, because he also could not be selfish by reclaiming Arlen from Cassandra as his best friend told him.

And somehow, it turns out that releasing Arlen for Cassandra is not as painful and as difficult as Anastasia imagined. Instead, he felt a little relieved, that a girl like Cassandra was the one who got love from Arlen.

"Hey, Arlen. Are you and Cassandra really dead before?" anastasia asked a little doubtfully. Because the girl was afraid of offending Arlen's privacy.

The blond man looked a little surprised. But soon after, a soft breath was heard from his breathing. "He told you about it?"

"so. Then Cassandra said that she was accused of killing His Majesty King Yari. After that, he was reborn."

"Yes, that's all right."

Hearing that, Anastasia asked again carefully. Because he was very curious how the fate of Arlen after being abandoned by Cassandra.

"Then what about you? What made you reborn?" anastasia asked, hoping that her childhood friend would not be angry.

Arlen was silent for a moment with him holding his eyes inseparable from Cassandra in the slightest. Then the man said. "I was executed."

Anastasia widened her eyes. Executed? He couldn't imagine that Arlen was going through that.

"D-at-executed? How can...?" ask the girl stammering.

"The person who accused Cassandra of killing His Majesty was Prince Darren. Therefore, I hold a grudge against him," Arlen said.

Again, Anastasia could not stop from the shock that attacked her. "Prince Darren...? How could he do such a cruel thing...?"

"Because of the upset and hurt that Cassandra left me, I beheaded her like Prince Darren did to Cassandra after she became the next king."

Now Anastasia understands. Turns out... Arlen really loves Cassandra. And himself, no longer had a dime of chance left.

"You... love Cassandra so much, huh?" lirih Anastasia is more into statements than questions.

"of course. If necessary, I'll give her all the life I have for her." Arlen said straightforwardly without hesitation.

Anastasia smiled bitterly again. Therefore, he must immediately forget Arlen so that he is no longer a barrier between the relationship between his two best friends.

"Then take care of Cassandra. Please, be the shield that is always on standby to protect her. Be the sword that can be the weapon she needs one day, Arlen," Anastasia pinta with a sincere look and a sweet weak smile.

The green-titled girl said through her pure heart, she already really did not want to trigger any more conflicts that would destroy the relationship of the three of them like before.

"Of course, I promise you that," said the man sliced the bright aquamarine.

"Then, can I get a hug as a friend?" kelakar Anastasia while chuckling.

But unexpectedly, it turns out that Arlen really hugs him. The girl widened her eyelids for a moment, but before long she closed her eyes.

Feeling all the warmth that spread throughout his pulse, and the comfort that filled the entire void hole in his heart.

This... is enough. For Anastasia now, having Arlen as a friend was more than enough.

"Arlen, I'd like to ask you one more thing. What was my fate in my previous life?" anastasia asked to take off the friendship hug.

"You want an honest answer?" Arlen turned around to make sure.

"You're becoming queen."

The golden-haired girl was stunned and gaped. "I-I...?! The queen?!!" her screams were held back considering Cassandra who was sleeping in her break.

"Yes." Yeah."

"W-how can I be queen?" Anastasia still doesn't believe that. She never imagined she would be a queen.

"You are carrying Prince Darren's child, of course you must be queen when he becomes king" Arlen replied honestly.

Anastasia can feel her cheeks flushed. Pregnant Prince Darren's son? How could he do that? Just imagining it instantly made himself splash into a pool filled with shame.

"B-but, how did I get in touch with Prince Darren? There is no way a charming prince seems to like a woman like me. She should have liked a woman who was graceful, and prettier than me," Anastasia said.

Arlen was a little dislikeful when his best friend sounded condescending to himself. "You can ask him that. Coincidentally, he wanted me to give you this, "he said giving a letter that Prince Darren had left him.

Anastasia's eyebrows swooped, and her hand grabbed and claimed the letter. When reading the writing after writing printed on the yellowish paper surface, Anastasia immediately hid it in her dress pocket and acted as if nothing was strange.

Arlen knew something was wrong with his best friend, because Anastasia's bead couldn't stay still.

"Then, because it's night. You better go home. Father and mother must be worried about me right now," Anastasia said then tidied up her hair and patted the skirt of her slightly shabby dress.

"I'll drive you," Arlen bargained.

"Ah, no need. I can do it myself, I'll just borrow your train. You take care of Cassandra, pity her alone, "cut the golden girl looking reasonable.

"Well if you say that."

Anastasia smiled at Arlen's understanding, then she walked towards Cassandra's bedroom door and intended to get out. But before that, he said goodbye to the man who became his childhood friend. "Then, I go first. Take care of Cassandra for me. Good night, Arlen!"

The sound of the door closing, becoming a cover. Instantly the atmosphere turned silent, but before long the blond unraveling man in the room spoke.

"Stop pretending to be asleep" he ordered as he approached the girl lying on the soft surface of the bed.

For a second, the girl chuckled and began to open her eyelids and then tried to sit while leaning on the head of the cot.

"Don't force yourself to sit," Arlen recalled putting a pillow behind Cassandra's waist to make the girl feel comfortable.

"It's okay. After all the pain is just my ankle," replied the girl with her face quite pale.

"You want to eat something? You're very pale" said the blond man, wiping his temples to the cheeks of his lover.

Cassandra smiled at the sweet treatment of her lover. "no need. I'm not hungry" he said.

"alright. If you don't want to eat, then you have to answer my question. What made you fall off the cliff with Ana, Cassandra la Devoline?"

Arlen smiled sweetly with her eyelids closed. However, Cassandra knew that the man right now must be very, very angry at her.

"Hm? Why don't you answer, Miss Cassandra?" asked the man still faithfully with a deadly sweet smile.

Arlen sat on a chair that was right next to the edge of Cassandra's mattress, then sat down with legs crossed.

Initially, Cassandra wanted to reason. But it seems that it can not if the lover has shown a deadly smile like that, until the girl finally sighed resignedly. "Alright, I gave up. Please remove that awful smile of yours first."

Arlen then put on a face that is flat and calm as usual while crossing. Waiting for an explanation that will be lovable from the lips of the girl.

"I deliberately dropped myself, to make it look like I was saving Anastasia. Then-"

"I know that. What I'm asking is, what makes you do so recklessly. Didn't I ban you? You even lied to me," Arlen cut quickly.

Cassandra took another deep breath as she said inwardly. "Patience, Cassandra. Besides, he's angry because of you. You need to calm him down, "his mind.

"I'm really sorry about that, but I did all that so Ana wouldn't hate me anymore. I don't want him to be like he used to be anymore, Arlen. You got it, didn't you?"

The wrinkle that originally formed between the two eyebrows belonging to the sky blue sliced man, now disappeared with a sigh of resignation that was blown.

"Yes, I get it. But what if you fell from a high abyss, and what if you lost your life? Didn't you ever think about it?" arlen said in a weak tone.

Cassandra smiled. "You take it easy, before I decide to fall from the abyss, I've checked first whether the gap is deep or not" his finger.

"When I held back Anastasia who was about to fall into that abyss, I had a look down and it turned out that the gap was not too deep. Therefore I was desperate to fall alone with Anastasia," continued the brown barley girl.

Arlen still faithfully listened to the girl's explanation, he just quietly looked at and absorbed all the explanations.

"So you don't have to worry. I also care about my safety, because I don't want you to suffer anymore. And, I also have no intention of leaving you again for the second time, Arlen."

Cassandra smiled sweetly as she endured the pain that had run through her ankle.

Suddenly, Arlen now dropped his head on the lap of the girl and hugged Cassandra's slender waist. "thank you. I don't know what to do if you ever leave me again" the man was heard muttering.

But Cassandra could hear it clearly. His lentic fingers now play strands after strands of blonde hair belonging to his man and gently rub his head.

"Are you also going to attend the meeting the day after tomorrow?" asked Arlen still faithfully drowned his face in Cassandra's lap.

"of course. I'm not going to mess up a plan that I've been putting together for so long just because of this little pain" the girl replied.

"You're stubborn. How can I stop you, other than just accepting your decisions?"

Cassandra chuckles at the resigned curses from her lover, before long Arlen again said.

"I wanted to ask you this a long time ago. Can you answer honestly?" tanya lekaki raised her face to look at the beautiful face of her lover.

"What?" cassandra asked hearing Arlen's tone sounding very serious.

The blue-sliced man was able to stare in the brown bead of the girl's eyes. Until soon after, a question loathed from her lips was enough to leave Cassandra stunned.

"When we go to the festival, what do you mean by saying that I might choke and die silly like you?"

...16.03.2021...