The New Duchess
Chapter 53

Some of the waiters have completed their mistress needs for the night. Even dinner was on the table. Although the waiter said that this was just a simple dish but for Ai the menu there was quite varied.

Grace was still asleep in the room. Ai did not want to disturb, it seemed like she would invite the woman to talk tomorrow morning. Need to give him a moment to digest the situation.

“ have you received a prescription from doctor Leyna?” ask Ai after finishing her dinner.

“ is already a mistress, the waiter is making her potion” replied one of the maids.

“ did he also deliver my message?” continue Ai.

“ already madam” Ai nods briefly.

“ don't forget to deliver dinner to Lady Bart first before giving him abut” AI message to the waiter. The servants nodded.

After the conversation, Ai got ready for bed. The room here is not as good as in the main residence. But quite comfortable and awake. Some furniture made from wood is also well maintained. Soon Ai lay down.

At midnight Ai is shocked by the presence of Axton who disrupts his sleep. Ai didn't get a message if Axton would follow her here.

“ emm, are you here ?” ai asked with a still thinning consciousness.

“ how else are you here” Axton replied as he lay hugging his wife.

“ Grace is bleeding, Leyna says if Grace is pregnant” Ai says Grace's condition, although Axton does not ask her at least her husband needs to know. They need to think about Grace's pregnancy problem, Wellington's name will indirectly be dragged. Grace has long been known as Duke Wellington's assistant.

Axton was silent for a moment, he was increasingly worried about his wife. Next week they are required to separate, whether to return. The situation was getting more complicated and his wife was alone.

“ we need to speak directly with him” Axton replied.

“ will this problem adversely affect you?”

“ can be yes, can not. We hide this pregnancy problem. Somehow this time I felt so heavy leaving you” Axton breathed a rough breath. Touching his wife's cheek.

“ I'm really scared of your loss” Oozed Axton. If only Ai could according to maybe at this time his wife is definitely safe in the village. Don't know knowing with the big problems that the sedan faced Axton.

With Ai here Axton's fear is getting bigger, especially with a royal warrant that suddenly refers to him as the head of the handling of the war for territory on the border. Axton could not resist even if he refused to agree. Some military officials seemed set not to jump in to help Axton. The unreasonable tasks made Axton a little suspicious. Either refusing or agreeing to him Axton remains in a dangerous position.

Ai smiled lightly while staring in the husband's bead. As if trying to calm Axton's feelings.

“ are you afraid the queen will hurt me like your wife before?” ask Ai.

“ hem, I'm afraid they'll do bad to you. Neither the queen nor the crown prince will remain silent with my life” Axton said so touching Ai's heart. This time, Axton talked about his feelings. Her husband can be romantic too.

“ why you never told people the reason for your wife's death. They think you killed them”

“ does the king also know that you are the queen's son?” Axton nodded briefly.

“ so indeed the kingdom covered up this truth by deliberately” guman Ai after seeing her husband's answer.

“ that time between the queen and the father loved each other, at their young age they turned out to do things beyond the limits so that I was present. At the same time when my father got his first assignment in the military. Eventually the two families agreed to hide the news of my birth, with the agreement that after completing military duty, the wedding should be held immediately. A few years after the engagement party is celebrated, as if making this habit as usual. But somehow, before the wedding party took place the woman's family broke off the relationship. And it turns out that this is related to the king who was then the crown prince.” Ai listened to all those stories carefully. She had not expected that her husband would experience such a heavy thing like her.

“ my father educated me so hard, that at the age of 15 I was able to lead a group of military areas. Father also seemed tireless to continue to give success to the kingdom so given the title Duke. A few years after my father's health deteriorated, he told me this story. My heart is so sick and vengeful to the kingdom. Mr. Bart seems to be my advisor not to do anything that threatens my life. At the age of 18 my father died. There is no respect from the kingdom. As if closing their eyes even directly sent out a title transition letter. That's when the cold war between me and the kingdom started” Axton stopped the story. In his vision his teary-eyed wife heard everything.

“ for the sake of covering this up the kingdom does many things, including killing Esme and Kyliee” continued Axton

“ I salute you” Ai hugged her husband tightly. Fighting alone even when the kingdom presses him.

The conversation of the couple continued, they expressed their feelings and all the things they had been hiding. And don't forget they cover it with hot activity.

The next morning after finishing her breakfast, Ai met Grace who was sitting in her room. His position was against the door and facing the window of the room.

Tok Tok Ai revives Grace's daydream. Make him look at the door.

Ai walked in and sat down next to Grace. That woman was so different from before.

“ would you like to see me like this?” cynical Grace once Ai sat next to her. Ai saw it differently, Grace looked so fragile. No brother left only his mother who turned out to be in the village. Not living with Grace in the capital.  There's nobody on Grace's side right now.

“ you think like that?” ai replied no less cynically to Grace.

“ I am so sorry to see you like this. Don't you want to take Axton away from me? Don't you want to kick me out of Axton's life and even plan something bad for me?. If you want to do it all at least don't do it like this. I don't want to win because you look as sad as this” as if slapping Grace, Ai's words make Grace's heart suddenly warm.

“ restore yourself new we will start again fight” continued Ai.

Not wanting to linger Ai immediately left the room. Grace was silent, she could not cover up if the woman next to her had never tried to hurt her. He himself initiated all the evil plans.

“ I met Axton first but why did he never see me?. And you, the person he just met so easily filled his heart. Why isn't the world fair to me?” grace said as Ai was on the doorstep. Grace doesn't know that Axton is out of the room. And clearly heard all his words.  

Ai gave the code so that Axton would not have to interfere with this. But Axton doesn't think the same. He walked into the room, intending to say something to Grace.

“ you're like a little sister to me. From the beginning I was by my side, accompanying all my loneliness. We both had the same fate when you lost your father. But just to the extent of it, you're like family to me no more. This feeling could not be forced.” Grace was initially shocked when she heard Axton's voice, but then calmly heard all the man's explanations. Grace still didn't turn her face even as Axton and Ai left her room.

There was anger and sadness in Grace's heart. It turned out that the man he thought was cold-hearted had already considered him a family. Grace did not accept the position initially, but slowly she also understood that she had been pushing her desires too hard. And it ends like this.

Can not be denied if the thing that happened to him is also because of his own actions. Grace bent her legs and hugged her tightly. Slowly her shoulders swayed, Grace cried. Crying life.

“ restore yourself new we will start fight” Ai words suddenly flashed in Grace's mind. The woman was so considerate of herself, perhaps this is why Axton so easily liked the woman. In her tears Grace smiled faintly, intending to change her life after this.