DUKE'S CONTRACT WIFE

Duke's contract wife [20]

After a long conversation, they agreed to help Theo.. They asked Theo to sponsor their magic tower. They also agreed to start the Arabella plan on Thursday or exactly 2 more days besides the witches also have to prepare some items before they make a magic circle said by Arabella.

After the agreement was made, Arabella and Theo returned to Tryon's residence, on their way to the residence, they saw a black shadow pass so quickly beside their chariot and fit perfectly! The direction in the shadow was the residence of Tryon, because it did not want to happen things that Theo and Arabella decided to ride a horse. The two of them darted so fast towards the Tryon residence.

Arabella and Theo were so shocked to see the soldiers guarding Tryon's residence lying in a scrawny state as if they had run out of blood. Remembering the whereabouts of his father and nephews Arabella and Theo immediately took the sword that was on the body of the soldier and ran inside, not only was it because of the difficulty of moving Arabella tore off some of her dress she really did not care about anything else she thought right now was just her father's safety!

PRANGS!!

THE ARGH!!

UHUK!!!

The steps of Arabella and the duke had stopped once they heard the scream, and the origin of the sound came from the room used by the Marquess. Theo who realized that without warning immediately kicked the door of the Marquess room and saw Alister who was drenched in blood and dying as well as the Marquess whose life force was currently being absorbed by the Emperor.

"DAD!!!" Arabella became hysterical, without a second thought Arabella drew her sword and ran towards the emperor who was absorbing her father's life force. Theo was so surprised that Theo quickly ran towards Arabella however.. It was so dear to the emperor that he blocked Theo that Theo could not move at all.

"ARABELLA!!" Either because of his already encompassing emotions somehow Arabella did not hear Theo shout and continued to advance and attack the Emperor, the Emperor instead made the Marquess' body into a shield and... Instead of stabbing the Emperor the sword stabbed the Marquess, Arabella was so shocked and dropped her sword she was really surprised, she really did not expect that she would hurt her father like this.

The Emperor grinned and raised the sword with his strength and then gave it to Arabella, Arabella stared blankly at the sword and the Emperor took advantage of this opportunity to get rid of Arabella without having to dirty his hands.

"Take the sword and cut off your own head, you have killed your father now you have to pay for it all" Arabella's hand began to reach for the sword, Theo continued to shout the name Arabella to make Arabella aware however.. It's all useless! Theo tried his hardest so that he could be freed from the Emperor's entanglement.

"Now beheaded" Arabella pointed her sword right at his neck and began to scratch his neck, Theo increasingly becoming that he really did not want to lose the person he loved anymore.

CRATES

Not that the head of Arabella was detached from his body but the head of the Emperor was decapitated, Arabella was really angry when the head of the emperor was cut off he sat limp on the floor and hugged his father's corpse, hugging his father's corpse, Theo who had been freed quickly embraced Arabella and calmed her down. He was really sad and angry that Arabella should feel happiness instead of suffering like this.

Theo then gazed towards the corpse of the emperor, the corpse slowly started to turn into smoke and disappear without a trace.

Lilith was so shocked when she saw her most precious and dear pawn just died! He could not let the plan he had prepared after so long just crumble! After Lilith disguised herself as emperor, Arabella became very moody and reserved. He was really sad because his father was completely gone, while Alister fell into a coma due to bleeding and multiple fatal attacks.

1 Month has passed but... Athanasius still did not suspect Lilith, either because Lilith was too good at acting or because Athanasius did not pay much attention to his father he did not suspect Lilith at all. The next day came a letter from the Crown Prince, telling him that he would return to the Empire tomorrow. And this is where Athanasius began to suspect!

The Emperor never smiled or showed any emotion when it came to that Crown Prince/brother while this Emperor was mauling such a smile it was obvious that he was not the real Emperor! Wanting to be sure, Athanasius tested Lilith by asking her a few things that only she and her father knew. Yet... All the questions raised by Athanasius were answered wrongly and carelessly! And this was enough to prove that Right now the person standing before him was not the real Emperor Yang but someone in disguise!

Lilith was aware that Athanasius was beginning to suspect her however, she really did not care! Because his ultimate goal is to make the Crown Prince his new pawn. He really can't wait to meet his potential pawn!

The next day cheers from the people echoed throughout the Empire they were so enthusiastic about welcoming their war hero, not long after the Crown Prince and his troops entered the territory of the capital and rode horses towards the Palace. In the middle of the journey Theo directly welcomed the arrival of the Crown Prince, as well as Arabella he began to give up the departure of his father and now Arabella sedmg trying to live life as usual.

"Crown Prince, it's been a long time since we've met. I really miss when we were both on the front line" Theo patted the Crown Prince on the shoulder as well as the other way around they really reminisced about the times they were both together. Honestly, Theo already considers the Crown Prince as his brother and the Crown Prince already considers Theo as his younger brother. The new Crown Prince became aware of Arabella's whereabouts after Arabella took Theo by the hand.

"Eh? who is this beautiful lady?" The Crown Prince lowered his head and watched Arabella closely.

"Well, she's my wife, oh yeah! Now that I've risen in rank now I'm not a duke anymore but a Grand duke" Hearing the words wife and Grand duke Crown Prince was really surprised he really did not expect that Theo would precede him in terms of marriage and he also did not expect that the Emperor approved Theo's rank/office. Because to the knowledge of himself the emperor was a very vengeful person and willing to do anything for his purposes!