NOT THE USUAL CINDERELLA (Season 2)
PREPARATION TO RENHILL
"As crown prince back then, I could have forced you to marry me, without having to follow the rules and conditions you had set up to avoid me. Who in this Gracetian would dare to defy my orders? But the Great Miss at that time, still refused my love. Really looking to die." Hearing Alvero's next words, Deanda immediately moved her hand quickly to Alvero's waist and pinched her waist, making Alvero's body slightly jump to the side in shock.
"Let's...." Alvero shouted softly as he clenched his teeth and let out a soft growling sound, pretending to be showing his anger.
"Ah, not at all scary." Seeing that Deanda actually smiled amusedly, then said while approaching towards Alvero who was still putting on a feigned face of anger.
"Trust me, Your Highness Avero. Sometimes a wife's anger is more frightening than a king's." Deanda whispered softly in Alvero's ear, deliberately saying her words in a spoiled and seductive voice, making Alvero instantly grimace.
"I believe... Totally believe. So, this time please Big Miss is not angry." Alvero answered Deanda's words while pinching Deanda's nose in a fit of anxiety.
"Your Majesty. I will immediately carry out His Majesty's orders." Deanda instantly countered Alvero's temptation while hugging Alvero's waist briefly with both hands, before finally letting go and slightly distancing her body, even before Alvero had returned a warm and friendly hug from Deanda.
"Well...why should I rush off sweety? It feels very comfortable. My wife rarely hugs me like that." Hearing Alvero Deanda's words immediately smiled with a reddened face.
What Alvero said is absolutely true. It never seemed that Deanda took the initiative to embrace Alvero's body like she just did. Even if to be honest, the warmth of Alvero's body when Deanda hugged him like just now, really makes Deanda feel comfortable and calm. His heart felt so peaceful as he hugged Alvero's body earlier. Deanda gave her a happy smile, realizing that she now had a husband figure who was always nearby, whom she could always rely on, both in difficult times and happy ones.
Cry together, or laugh together. Now he has someone to do those things with him.
"I'm hungry..." Deanda said as she stroked her flat stomach with her palm, making Alvero instantly chuckle.
"Let's go now. It's lunch time. The worms in your stomach must have been preparing to make a sound for a rally." Alvero grabbed the map he had just taken out of the safe with one hand, and his other hand stretched out toward Deanda's shoulder, coiling there gently pulling Deanda closer to him.
"Tell me. What do you want for lunch?" Alvero asked Deanda who was turning her face towards Alvero, as soon as her husband wrapped his hand over her shoulder.
"I want to have lunch with the others at the palace this afternoon." Deanda answered briefly, making Alvero frown as he felt a little astonished by Deanda's desire to return to the palace this afternoon. The place that had been, usually so avoided by Deanda, especially when in the palace there was Eliana, who always looked at him with angry eyes and did not like when others did not see him.
"Ah, really? Tumben once you want to go back to the palace immediately?" Alvero was a little surprised because all he knew all along, Deanda preferred to be outside the palace which to him was like a golden cage.
"As your empress, instead from now on I have to live more in the palace and learn more about how to take care of the palace, in order to help you in the future as your empress? I don't want to be an empress who can only be made into a display. It's no different than a wax statue in a museum." Deanda continued her words while re-hugging Alvero's waist who immediately smiled with a proud face, as well as being happy to hear what his wife had just said about his intention to more seriously learn about the palace.
"Ok, as you wish, Sweety. I also have to meet with Madame Rose today. To inquire about the events that befell papa Alexis at that time. Madame Rose should have known about the event." Alvero said as he kissed Deanda's head crest with great affection, then patted Deanda's shoulder slowly to take her down to the front office of the Adalvino company building to return to the palace.
With a slight hurry, the two of them walked out of the building, where Ernest had been waiting for them from earlier in the car, preparing to escort the two masters.
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"I don't know in detail what happened Your Majesty. But at that time almost all the inhabitants of the palace, actually opposed the revocation of the title of knight belonging to master Alexis. Because we know Mr. Alexis is a role model for a lot of people. His knightly attitude has always been an inspiration to the other guards. Some of us who felt close to his highness Vincent, also ventured, asking the reason behind the revocation of the knight's title." Madam Rose who sat with Deanda and Alvero near the palace pond after lunch in the palace was over, said as she frowned, as if trying to remember what happened that time more clearly.
"Is Madame Rose among those who have asked papa about it?"
"Yes, definitely. But unfortunately his Excellency Vincent did not give any answer to me and the others either. It's as if noble Vincent did want to hide the real reason for the case." Madam Rose stopped her words for a moment, while trying to recall what had happened back then. Is there anything he has forgotten about what happened back then, is there anything he has missed.
"Ah, what a pity, even though Mr. Alexis is a kind and heroic person. Many problems in the palace and the kingdom were well resolved by master Alexis. Even the duke who at that time served as the supreme leader in the military, the father of duke Evan, so admired the figure of master Alexis. If not mistaken, the case for the revocation of the title of knight happened not long after the consort Larena left the palace." Madam Rose continued her words.
“From the info I've collected from the seniors in the palace, some of them told me about how they thought someone had deliberately trapped and slandered Mr. Alexis. They do not believe that mister Alexis who is known as a straight man did something embarrassing or a big mistake that made his Excellency Vincent revoke the title of knight he had.” Alea, standing between Madame Rose and Deanda, related Miss Rose's words about how she responded to the palace occupants who had known Alexis.
“Alright, I will try to find out the truth about what happened back then. And that can only be answered by the concerned. His Holiness Vincent or Papa Alexis, unfortunately papa Alexis is dead. May your Excellency Vincent not mind telling me about what really happened back then.” Alvero said as he glanced at Madame Rose and Alea in turn.
