
Evina walked quickly towards the courtyard where she was resting, thinking that Prince Arezz was waiting for her out there.
But when he got outside, it turns out that the one waiting for him is prince Brendan not Prince Arezz who is his lover.
It turned out that the waiter who had whispered to him only said the prince alone, making him misunderstand if the one who visited him at this time was Prince Arezz.
Prince Brendan looked extremely stunned at the appearance of Evina who was wearing only a simple nightgown, with long hair unraveling and shiny brown eyeballs staring at him, making himself as if not blinking to see the face of Evina who is now walking towards her.
''What is the prince meeting me here? is not satisfied to have made my hand hurt and humiliated in front of the many palace servants?'' asked Evina in a tinge.
"I'm just here to apologize to you, I really don't mean to make your hand hurt" replied Prince Brendan in a soft tone, very different from what he used to show Evina all along.
His face looked slightly lowered, to the haughty han and the cynical gaze commonly displayed by prince Brendan as if invisible to Evina's eyes.
"Yes I'm sorry, now the prince please leave because I want to rest," replied Evina still with a ketus tone.
"Wait for Ev.." the prince called out to Evina who was about to step up and grabbed her wrist.
"Aawww.." -...." Evina looked grimaced as Prince Brendan's hand held onto his wrist.
Immediately the prince released his hand, he was a little surprised because Evina's wrist was in his hand now wrapped in a circular bandage covering the entire wrist that looks very small in his eyes.
"Have I been too hard to hold your hand, so it must be wrapped in a bandage like this?" asked Prince Brendan to take back Evina's hand.
However, the intention was undoable, as Evina immediately hid her injured hand behind her body.
"It's not the prince's business."
Evina was about to step back.
"Can you choose me, not my sister? because the one who will occupy the Throne is me, not him," said the prince suddenly arrived.
Evina stopped her steps, then turned back to face her body towards prince Brendan, so they were now facing each other even with a distance that was not too close.
The prince could clearly stare at Evina's face which looked very beautiful, although Evina's eyes looked cynical to him, but it did not reduce the beauty she had at all.
"Sorry prince, as you misunderstood, I am close to your brother not because he is a prince or a future heir to the Throne, but we have been close and in love since I did not know his status as a prince" replied Evina.
"Do you really love her?"
"Yes, I love him, and vice versa, so I really hope, from now on the prince do not bother me anymore, he said, because in my heart there is a prince Arezz and will not be replaced by any man, including you."
Prince Brendan was really offended by Evina's remarks, only this time he was rejected raw by a woman, let alone the woman was only an ordinary servant, making his pride feel in the stampede just like that.
"Just wait...! now you may have fun with my brother, but when I ascend the throne later, I will make you a royal concubine, so that you will not be able to be with or marry my brother, because I will make you my only woman.''
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The next day, Evina is assigned by the butler to clean an empty room on the third floor which is located right next to Prince Brendan's room.
Because previously he had broken one plate while washing it yesterday, making the butler punish him by giving a heavier task to be done by Evina.
Evina seemed to open a room that like her had been a few months not occupied, dust and dirt seemed to decorate the walls and sky room.
He closed his nose, the dust that was scattered to make his little nose a little clogged and then he sneezed instantly.
Evina grabbed the broom that had been prepared, not forgetting she also brought other cleaning supplies as a tool for her to clean the room that looks so spacious.
While he was doing this, prince Brendan like his saw Evina as he passed in front of the room, he went into the room and approached Evina.
''Now it's your job to be a clean handyman?'' asked Prince Brendan who had just stood up unnoticed by Evina.
Evina looked a little surprised then she did not heed the words of Prince Brendan at all, and continued to carry on with her duties.
For almost two hours Evina cleaned the room, the atmosphere of the room was a little neat and the dust that had been scattered seemed to be no longer visible.
As long as Evina did her duty, as long as Prince Brendan was there, without saying a word, her eyes only seemed to stare and follow Evina's passing body before him.
Evina herself did not pay attention to the existence of Prince Brendan who had been there, she was only focused on her work as she had always done.
After the state of the room was completely clean, Evina sat on the floor, she wiped the sweat on the temple of her face with her hands slightly dirty, and her hands were slightly dirty, so as to make the dust in his hand now moved to the temple of his face.
Evina herself was not aware of this, she just continued to sit while looking at the reflection of her face from the shiny marble floor.
''Ev.. your temple is dirty, '' said prince Brendan as he coded with one finger towards Evina's face.
Evina understood the code given by Prince Brendan, she rubbed her temple again, but because the state of his hands that are still in a slightly dirty state makes the dust that is in the temple Evina become increasingly.
Evina stood up to look in the mirror, but suddenly Prince Brendan approached her and rubbed the temple of her face with a tissue that was in her hand.
Suddenly it made him very uncomfortable, then he retreated his steps back, and grabbed a tissue from the man's hand in front of him, then clean his own temple face by reflecting on a large mirror in the room.
Seeing this Prince Brendan only smiled faintly, for a moment he realized, what was he doing in the room? why did he spend his hours staring at the thin woman with the tapered face working there?
Unconsciously he has done things that are out of his control and also out of his habit.
Prince Brendan rubbed the chest of the field that felt thumping, without him realizing he had really fallen in love with the woman who is now his brother's lover, as well as his rival in fighting for the Throne.
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