
As agreed, the next day the three men were getting ready to go to the village where Eve had lived. Zachary's work never ends, in the end, it was temporarily handed over to Baron O'Neil even though the old man had protested and disagreed with the pretext that his back would hurt if he sat quietly within a few hours. Together with Rai, they are asked to work together to solve small problems. The rest Zachary will finish after he returns from his journey.
In the early hours of the morning, the train began to move. While watching the distant clouds above, Zachary had just come to mind. Why could he just follow Eve's ridiculous request? Really not like him.
Anyway, what's the advantage of going there. There ain't!
Zachary directed his gaze back into the carriage. Across her seat, Eve was busy pinning Ethan's short bushy hair with her hairpin. Beckett seemed giggling while thrusting a few flops and colorful hairbands in both hands, while Declan only bobbed his head at the mischievous behavior of his sister.
Ethan's? Don't ask. She was completely helpless against Eve's persuasion that forced her like this with boredom. The man while glancing sharply at Beckett several times, but when his eyes accidentally whistled with Eve's blue bead, he would try to smile sweetly. Little forced.
Speaking of Ethan and Beckett, the two men immediately force along when they find out Eve wants to return to her village. Zachary, tired of forbidding, was finally forced to bring his two stubborn sons to participate in their entourage, with a heart far from airy.
Just add the burden. Really am.
Seeing how tormented Ethan is, Zachary smiles faintly. It turns out his decision to take Ethan and Beckett wasn't too bad. The two silly sisters might be able to calm the heart of Eve who was very worried about her mother's health.
"Akhs! Eve, please slow down. My hair feels like it's falling out!" ethan squeaks with watery eyes as Eve manages to clamp her newly grown haircut. Really bad sister!
"Ck, don't touch!" Eve brushes off Ethan's hand wanting to remove the colorful hairpin that was stuck to his head. "The answer is not easy. Besides appreciating me, you've also become more beautiful, Ethan. Really looks like a lady ready to go to debutante."
They laughed even though Beckett was the loudest. The corner of his eye let out a grain of water, unable to bear the change in Ethan's somersaulting style.
Ethan's face flushed red, and he became even more upset when Beckett, who plays the prince, pretended to kiss the back of his hand. "Lady, your peerless beauty has fascinated me. For that, will you marry me?"
"Damn it!" Ethan flung Beckett's hand with a stark expression of disgust. "Stay away from me!"
Sitting in the corner of the bench, Declan sighed. "Eve, Beckett, enough. It's a delay." With his flat face, he glanced at Ethan who was expecting a defense. "Don't you see how Ethan almost shed his tears because of you?"
"It's wrong if I expect a defense from his youngest brothers Lumiere," Ethan said gruntingly and trying to remove the hairpins on his head one by one.
"But you're his brother too."
"Not as good as you are" he said, pulling Eve's head, pinning her between the armpits. Revenges. "Felt!"
"Heh, what are you doing?! Quickly remove it before the sweat and stains on your armpits stick to me!" pekik Eve tried to escape from her stupid brother but instead of succeeding, the resistance was actually supporting the laughter of her brother and father.
Face's extinguished. But not Eve if she gives up. When the last move was launched, Ethan was still unmoved. Not out of sense, before she ran out of breath, Eve looked softly at Zachary who was watching her.
"Dad, help me," she said with a nearly tearful expression.
Zachary freezes. I don't know why his heart warms and. Due to strict nobility rules, her three sons hardly ever even called her with similar calls, much less did Eve who had hated her from the beginning. No, that's natural. Zachary had never asked the little girl to accept his presence after an incident in the past. Where he betrayed Margaret, then drove her out.
He deserves to be hated.
"Your Grace?" eve murmured after the previous call was not cleared.
Slowly Ethan releases Eve from his armpit. So did Beckett who was clumsy and Declan who always folded his hands in front of the chest.
Slender
Eve hated this cold atmosphere. Without a second thought, he approached Zachary, then placed a blue hairpin over the duke's blond mane.
The mood changed gripping.
"What is this."
The other three brothers just silently watched with their eyes bulging. Didn't expect Eve to dare give her damn hairpin to the duke whose temperament was known to be bad. Unbeknownst to them, the three of them both prayed in their hearts that something bad would not happen to their sister. Like waking a sleeping tiger, Eve really did!
"As you say, joking can be as long as it's not excessive, so it doesn't matter, right? After all, comforting a sick person is fun, especially if that person is special. Mama's special to me, but I wish she was special to you too." Eve smiled broadly as she confirmed some of Zachary's wind-struck children. "The hairpin color matches the color of your eyes, Your Grace. It's very harmonious."
"Special?" Zachary chuckled.
"Is something wrong?"
"We will not come as the Lumiere Family, but we will disguise ourselves as poor and mediocre distant relatives of Eve, without the frills of nobility." Here's what Zachary's been waiting for. A freedom. "Again or not, you must agree because you have forced yourself to come here."
Beckett gawked, "Poor man you say? Like what, we just go using a train as good as this. How could anyone believe we're poor!"
Ethan nodded in agreement, "Even the blind can know our identity by wearing these clothes."
"I'm not saying we went there using the train and the clothes we're now wearing."
"What-What?!"
"At the border my people are waiting. We'll trade the train, luggage, and clothes there." Zachary smiled obliquely. "I have prepared everything. No one will know about this. So you better be normal."
"So all this time we've been acting abnormally, huh, Your Grace?"
"Geev!"
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Finally the mood is back!🤯
A glimmer of guilt may have already risen in Zachary's heart tuh, haha.
How, do you support Zachary with Margaret, or do you keep taking revenge like in the beginning?
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