The Atrocious Duke'S Wife
Chapter 29: The Lost Girl (2)
THIS WORK IS FICTION. NAMES, CHARACTERS, EVENTS, PLACES, ARE JUST A DELUSION. PLEASE READERS BE WISE IN RESPONDING.
"Anastasias! Wait!" shouted a girl chasing a friend younger than her while shouting the name of her best friend.
But the blond girl still ignored and ignored the call. All he did was run as fast as he could while dripping his tears which became the epitome and representation of the unbearable pain afflicting his little heart.
After that unbelievable incident, everything seemed messy and painful. The whole world of that girl was destroyed.
The man he had been fond of for almost ten years shattered his expectations in just a few seconds.
His entire shadow as he was about to become the man's tuna would be shattered into pieces like a puzzle that was unraveled and scattered everywhere.
The girl had now reached the garden behind her house. There was a park bench there, without making small talk, the girl sat on it.
While watching the surroundings, the girl was now back pensive considering the painful incident back.
"I refuse. Because I've got someone I like, and the person I like is him."
"Cassandra la Devoline."
"Why...? Why are you saying that? Have we not known for a long time? Then why...?" she covered her face with both of her palms.
He could not hold back the tears that continued to flow rapidly from his eyelashes, even his eyelashes were shiny because of the tears that washed them to a violent extent.
Not long after that, now he again heard a voice that had disappeared for a while.
The voice that was calling his name out loud was now back and getting closer.
"Anastasia!" The figure finally found someone he was looking for earlier. In a hurry, he approached the blonde girl and sat down next to her.
"Anastasia, I'm sorry about what happened. I really didn't expect Mr. Arlen to say that" said the brown-spirited girl, apparently feeling guilty.
"But trust me, Anastasia. I, will definitely get you back with Mr. Arlen," the girl insisted that the green-faced figure next to her began to stare at him.
"really? But if Arlen does like you, I don't want to force him either" she said in a nearly drowning tone.
A soft smile was painted on my face of the brown-blonde girl who was the friend of the blond girl. "Arlen will definitely like you. You're beautiful, you're kind, even you're so graceful, what less than you?"
Finally a ruckus escaped the face that was flooded by the tears. "You're exaggerating. I'm not that perfect," he chuckled.
"Well, laugh. You're prettier when you laugh than you cry" persuaded his best friend to make the master again show his coolness.
Now the two friends throw each other smiles and weirdness. The girl who was initially moistened and tempted by sadness, until finally dried with a simple ruckus.
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The next day, the sparkling green girl woke up on the soft surface of her bed as usual. The sun that shone on his face as if telling him to wake up from his dream realm and immediately prepare to start a new day again.
Soon, the girl did not want to linger and she immediately went to clean her body.
After she was dressed with the help of her servants, the girl set her feet to meet her father and mother.
Before long, he finally arrived at the dining room that had been filled by the existence of his parents.
"Good morning, Dad. Good morning, Mother," she said as politely and gently as ever.
"Good morning too, dear. Come sit down and eat with us" the mother and the girl obeyed.
Slowly, the girl landed her groin on the chair next to her father.
Because his stomach is also classified as hungry, he immediately took the available spoons and forks and began eating breakfast using the tool.
"Ana, did something happen between you and Arlen?" asked the father and the girl immediately gasped. Of course he knew where his father was going to take his word.
"There's nothing going on between us, Dad. Everything was ordinary, just like before," the girl replied. As he remembered, nothing had happened between them, but he did not know what made the man who was often a candidate for his fiancee suddenly act outside the shadow.
"so. Well then, enjoy your breakfast again," he said, and the girl happily complied and continued eating.
"Do you like Arlen, honey? If not, then we won't force you either." The mother was worried.
"Of course, Mother. Otherwise, how could I possibly accept this matchmaking," she replied sounding relaxed from the outside. But certainly not in his heart.
His heart was troubled, his heart was afraid, his heart was sick. His heart was currently holding all of those flavors. And a fine look can hide all those fused and lumpy flavors.
"Oh yes, Dad, Mom. What happened after I left dinner last night? I'm sorry if I leave suddenly, I need time to be alone" the girl asked hesitantly.
The father and mother of the girl had thrown each other a glance, then they both smiled sincerely at their daughter. "We understand how you feel. Last night after your departure, Viscount Devoline, the Duke and Duchess Floniouse were only perplexed and shocked. After that we had a conversation, and the conversation would continue again at a later time," obviously his father made the girl feel bad.
"I must have humiliated you for being so disrespectful. I'm sorry, Father, Mother," she lamented, bowing her head.
"You didn't embarrass us. You are our pride. We understand what you're feeling anyway, so there's no need to feel guilty, huh? Where's Mother's jolly daughter?" the joking of his mother made his son chuckle and again showed his trademark smile.
The atmosphere in the morning was very warm, because it was filled with jokes, smiles, and laughter. The sun was shining as if it were happy, and the servants not far from them were now exposed to the spark of warmth created by them.
What a harmonious family, able to make anyone envious.
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Day after day passed, now there was a girl with a bright straight blonde with her dazzling green Emerald netra in a serious conversation with her best friend.
The cold and calm manner as usual adorned his handsome face. The wind gushed fiercely making the blond hair of the man sway as if dancing. Its clear blue sky and clear cold blue net can make anyone fascinated.
The girl just stared silently at the man who was right beside her, even she was fascinated by the aura released by the man who had long been her best friend.
A tickling feeling that crept his heart, he could not control. All he could do was cover up and pretend he didn't know.
"What do you want to talk about?" ask the girl to try as calmly and as habitually as possible.
"About our engagement" the dearest answer from the man's lips was able to make the girl flinch and a little nervous.
"I'll be honest this time, Ana."
The low tone that accompanied the man's sentence made the girl even more nervous. Nervous of pleasure or pain that will attack him later.
"I like you, Ana."
As if there were a flower blossoming in her heart, the girl could not contain the happiness that attacked her repeatedly.
The smile that was as bright as a lotus flower could no longer be hidden, the red hue could not be controlled.
"Then why did you say yesterday that you refused this engagement?! Why did you say that you-"
The deg!
Being stabbed by thousands of arrows was incomparable to the pain the girl was feeling. The flower that originally seemed to bloom in his heart, in a matter of seconds became dry and withered just like that.
Their smile just clenched, as if they could no longer show their beauty.
Tears escaped back on her shiny cheeks, her feelings as if clad and coiled with immeasurable sadness.
"Why...? Why are you saying it now?! Why, Arlen?!" hysterical screams. It was enough he held it since last night, it was enough he harbored everything, he could not stand it anymore.
The feeling of annoyance and sadness that was boiling from earlier, now just overflowed.
"Do you know how much I expected this engagement?! Do you know how much I like you?! DO YOU KNOW?!?!" heartbreaking scream.
A regretful roar was imprinted on his face that was still installing calm, only the twitching on his eyebrows became the difference between his appearance earlier with the present one.
"I know I was wrong, Ana. But, I'm just telling you now because I know I don't want our friendship to just break down" she said, staring into the teary-eyed girl.
"You're precious to me, Ana," he continued, producing sobs from his best friend.
Either the girl should be happy or sad when the man thinks that he is valuable.
This reality is too bitter to feel.
This pain is too hard to get rid of.
This regret is too hard to bury.
When the heart wants to bury the resentment, the resentment refutes and even becomes so until the seed of vengeance will grow bigger over time.
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Falsehoods.
Phoniness.
Hypocrisies.
The three things attached to his best friend made this blonde girl disdainful. He's fed up, he hates, he's betrayed.
Seeing the existence of the girl who was in front of him while smiling happily made himself seem to want to destroy it right then and there.
His palms were clenched perfectly, his eyes were firmly blocked, his teeth were cracking withstanding the emotions that were slowly starting to try to reach his limits and finally controlling him.
His two best friends betray him simultaneously, causing him to feel multiple pains.
After she clad in her almost uncontrollable emotions, the girl stepped away from the figure that made her negative emotions appear.
The girl sat alone under the shade of a tree that protected her from the sunlight. Accompanied by the strong wind that hit, at least this atmosphere made him a little calm.
The two figures again irritated him, he was struggling with his thoughts connected to his wounded heart.
Like walking alone in a strange place, the girl was confused with her surroundings as if everything was the same.
Darkness, fear, confusion.
Because that feeling gnawed at him, he even nearly lost his identity. Unknowingly, his foot was simply stepped into the immeasurable darkness that was being faithfully waiting for him to step up.
Something invisible to the faithful supported him and incited him into the strange dark place.
Armed with confusion, the girl began to step further and further into the dark foreign place.
And unknowingly, he had become lost and entangled in that darkness.
The pain mixed with anger triggered the vengeful seed in his heart to grow faster and begin to show his buds.
That flower bud, had finally reached its limit. The flower produced a spark of deep vengeance and lodged in his wounded little heart.
The more he wanted to escape, the more darkness held him back and ensnared his will.
Unconsciously, he could not return. He was too deep, there was no way out.
He screamed bitterly for help, but the figure he expected showed no sign that the figure would be present.
Before long he was alone in the dark, now there is a figure who turns out to find him. The figure was trying to pull him out of that darkness.
When the poor girl was saved, she was fooled by the fake figure who became her hero and even consumed her pure lies.
The girl thought that the figure could set her free perfectly, but who would have thought the figure turned out to have even plunged her into a forest of grudges that were even worse than the previous place.
The foreign figure said he wanted to help him to regain the love of the figure he hoped for. And foolishly, the girl actually worsened the situation that had been bad at first.
He even added alcohol to the wound that was torn wide apart, so that he increasingly felt unparalleled pain from the wound.
There was no longer any warmth left in his heart, because the vengeful flower had wrought all its goodness all along, as it was, so that he became a cold-blooded figure and no longer had any tenderness in him.
When he who has made everything messed up, he cannot bear it, so he throws the mistake at someone else.
He felt that he was the only victim of a situation that he had been in with his own two hands.
He felt that he was the one who suffered the most from all of this.
And he was determined, the perpetrator who he thought was wrong was the mastermind of everything. The perpetrator was the usurper of all the happiness he had, he thought.
The grudge grows and grows until it reaches its limit. That resentment drove him to do something very inhumane.
The poor girl who has no empathy left in her wants to eliminate the perpetrator who she thinks is the usurper of all her happiness.
In the end, the girl had indeed been lost in the forest of vengeance and hatred.
Only a glimmer of goodness could lead the girl back on her path.
Merely, that glimmer of light was extremely hard to find.
The light will only be obtained if the girl realizes all her faults that led her into the forest.
^^I Become Wife of the Atrocious Duke^^^
^^^05 December 2020^^^