The Butterfly Trap
The Part 10
“ Where are we going?” I asked him when we were on the horse-drawn carriage.
“ To my residence”, he replied.
“ Why are we there? if you have anything to say, now it's here”
He just kept quiet.
“ If you do not want, I will jump from this camera”, I threatened him.
She looked at me with her eyes, but there was no movement from her, I shifted my seat towards the door and prepared to open it before my hand was blocked by her hand.
“ Kau”, said in a rather loud voice, “ There are some things I should say?”
“ Can't just be here? anyway I do not want to go to your residence, I don't know what you are planning behind me”.
He chuckled while holding his face with his arms.
“ Your imagination is too far”, he said on the sidelines of his laughter, I blushed.
“ Who knows” my murmur was upset but a rumbling sound from inside my stomach stopped me.
He laughed even harder.
‘ Geez, shame, why even now the stomach? can't compromise for a second what?’ I screamed inside my head while covering my face with my hands.
‘ Crazy, this is absolutely crazy’.
He stopped laughing and asked the coachman to drop us off at a hotel and restaurant that looked luxurious, he helped me to get off the carriage, when I looked around, only nobles and merchants could be seen eating there given the aura that came out of the way they walked and ate the dishes, looking elegant and classy.
I pulled up his sleeve, “ Why do we eat here?” my whiskey.
“ We find a place that is, here must be very expensive, at least have pity on my pocket that has limited contents this”, I whispered again to him.
“ Just relax, let me pay”, he replied while sitting in a seat adjacent to the window.
“ Still I do not want you to pay, I still want to live long, this is the same as I have fun spending money that I have worked hard to collect”, I have to spend, I still whisper because I don't want anyone to hear it, even though I'm not from the upper class but I don't want anyone to demean me for not being able to eat in an expensive place.
“ Welcome master and nyaoya”, said a waiter approached our table and he handed me the menu book, I picked it up while saying thank you, the food listed there looked really appetizing but when I checked the price I suddenly felt sorry for the gold coins that would disappear so easily.
“ Parfait one, Chocolate cake and ice cream one, macaroni one, oh yes add tiramisu one more yes, add straberry pudding and melon this one, and, lastly one tea and another mango” juice, Z told the waiter who was answered with a friendly nod by the waiter then he repeated all the orders before leaving us.
“ Will you eat everything?” I asked while counting the gold coins to be issued for the sweet food in my head.
‘ Oh my goodness, the price exceeds my income selling herbal medicine for a year’ I thought.
“ You will eat it, I just drink tea aja”.
“ Don't tell me you bought me this sweet food?” I asked suspiciously.
“ You are mine without having to buy you using all this”, replied the sarcasm.
“APA!?” I shouted, then lowered my voice because the people there were watching me.
“ How many times have I told you, I belong to myself, not mine”, I added this time I used casual language because I was fed up with his attitude towards me.
“ You are now talking casually to me?” ask with a thin smile.
“ You made me this way, you didn't respect me then why should I maintain my decency, huh?”.
“ You look angry, not bad also”, he replied while laughing.
A few minutes later the waiter came with our order.
“ Please enjoy”, he said before leaving us, seeing various types of tempting foods on the table made me forget my frustration to Z, I pulled a parfait near me then happily enjoyed it.
“ Don't think I'll forgive you just because you bought me food huh! I'm not that easy” said I saw it with the side of my eyes then again enjoy my parfait.
“ Yo who is this?” said the voice from before me that I recognized as the voice of the Prophet, I lifted my wajh from the parfai that I was enjoying and looked towards the source of the voice, The Prophet and Stella stood beside the table between me and Z.
“ After disappearing for one month, now our friend has been able to ngedate Stel”, said the circus prophet.
“ So who is this unlucky guy?” stella said then they turned towards Z, those who saw the man in front of me were shocked and they quickly bowed.
“ Greetings to Grand Duke Zurich Dagaras” they said in unison that made my eyes wide in disbelief.
“ Ap-What do you mean Gra-Grand Duke?” ask me stammering.
“ Just relax, are you friends Butterfly?” asked Z aka Zurich while shaking her hand with a friendly smile after she let them both stand up.
‘ Who is this guy? what kind of smile is that? bleh’ said in my head while looking at the way he treated the Prophet and Stella.
“ Butterfly?” ask them in astonishment.
“ Sit down first”, he replied, Stella encouraged me to shift sitting to the end.
“ In the north people call her miss Butterfly”, she replied, a sweet and friendly smile still not gone from her face.
“ WAAAHHHHHHHH, THIS PARFAIT IS REALLY GOOD” I shouted cutting off the Prophet's speech while stepping on his feet.
“ Crazy bastard?” stella asked who had been busy looking at Zurich's face.
“ Ap-what yes-who are you talking about Stel?” I stammered while laughing awkwardly and then advised him to be quiet with my eyes.
Zurich laughing.
“ Did my wife say I was a crazy bastard?” tanyanya still laughed.
“ Wife?” ask them simultaneously.
“ Wife?” I also asked him, I shook my head to two pairs of balls asking me to give an explanation.
“ Bu-not so guys”, I replied with a head bobble.
“ Didn't you say it was just the employer's contact and the servant Si?” ask the Prophet.
“ What contract?” stella asked confusedly.
“ Oh so your friends already know about the sign in your hand apparently? now that there are already your friends who are witnesses, let me clarify”, he said while crossing his legs and sipping the tea he ordered.
“ Marking sign in your hand is an imprint sign which means we are a couple, legally you are already my wife, because the sign will not be formed if you do not agree to the agreement, legally you are already my wife, this means this is an agreement on likes with like”
“ What? how is this a proof of marriage? it doesn't make any sense at all, does it?” ask the Prophet and Stella.
“ But Si, if the marking appears when you make a contract between the awakener and purifier then it means your match is above fifty percent”, said the Prophet with a rather heavy voice, “ And if a sign is formed then the couple is called to have married!”
“ Purifier? Sicily is a purifier?” stella asked who was surprised by the information that had appeared all of a sudden.
“ Stel-“
“ Wait,” he said cut my words, “ Sicily is a purifier that has tied the imprint contract with the noble Granduke Zurich Dagaras, he said, and again the contract leaves a marking that means your match exceeds fifty percent? what kind of a twis plot is this?”
“ The-“
“ You even hid it from me and the Prophet knew it? Do you think of me as a friend?” he stood up, not believing what was going on.
“ Not so Stel, listen I-“ I stop.
He stood up and bowed to Zurich and left us.
“ Stella” shouted I was about to chase after him but my hand was pulled by the Prophet.
“ You are here Si, finish your business with your majesty first, let me be the one who will defend it to Stella” said the Prophet, then he bowed goodbye to Zurich and then went after Stella.
I let out a breath.
“ Have you guys always been as dramatic as that?” he said in a plain tone.
“ This is all because you” I replied while holding my head, thinking about the incident that just happened.
“ Why didn't you tell me that you were Emperor's cousin and commander of the Taurus Faction? I even have-“ I did not extend my words, the events of the past month have been enough to add a heavy burden on my shoulders, not yet he is the one I should avoid because of my identity.
“ What would change if I told you?”
“ Many “ answer me quickly.
“ Example?”
“ For example I will remain humble and try as much as possible not to offend the noble” I replied, “ I even cursed you in my head” added me slowly.
“ Never mind, now you already know the meaning of the sign right? let's register our trinkets tomorrow!”
“ WHAT!?”
He looked at me in wonder.
“ Your Excellency, you have trouble promising not to open my identity, have you forgotten? one question, why did you trick me into signing a contract with me?”
She did not answer, she just looked away at the window, I frowned while waiting for an answer that would come out of her mouth but those sexy lips remained tightly clenched.
“ Sir, can you answer me?” I shouted but not until heard by the guests who were eating there.
“ I will answer it, but not here”, he replied, “ Let's continue this discussion at my residence”
“ What? but-“
“ Stop, it's up to you if you don't come, it's not me who lost” replied as he got up and stepped towards the exit, I gaped at the half-hearted answer from his mouth.
‘ Hey, you think who got me in position now? I don't ask you to be my husband, it's just that you're handsome, rich and domineering, you can be just as cool as anyone, huh?” my protest in my head.
“ What are you thinking? come!” call him to me, I immediately followed him to the exit, leaving behind a sweet food that was still untouched.
‘ I'm sorry Pudding, tiramisu, cake and maraconi, I really don't want to leave you but that crazy psychopath forced me, even though I haven't tasted you yet, it's a pity’ I said in my heart while looking back at the luxurious restaurant.
