The Marrying The Prince

58

Not without reason Anastasia became doubtful, not without reason she became agitated by just getting a little change. All of that, was the form of the thing that he had actually calculated and always worried about.

Anastasia's hand moved again, pulling out a secret drawer in her library. When the drawer was open, a box of ornate wood was neatly stored there. Anastasia smiled wryly as she opened the contents of the box inside there.

There were so many letters that he had saved over a month, letters from the same person, and letters to the same person. With her chest beginning to cramp again, she opens a letter that Anastasia believes will be the last letter sent to their castle, because a letter must have finally arrived at its true purpose.

Anastasia thought she was lucky because when she came home from Yorksire, Stephen delivered the letters to the castle to her first. Until Anastasia can find letters that immediately make her unable to believe herself about all the sweet things at her wedding.

Anastasia's hand began to tear through one letter when her memory returned the moment after she received and saw the contents of the letters. At that time, he immediately made the decision to keep and keep the letters secret to the owner even, Anastasia had also given the order if there was a 'foreign' letter and for all the letters that entered the castle, Anastasia also had given the order if there was a 'foreign' letter and for all the letters that entered the castle, everything should be given to Anastasia first.

He thought that one day the letter would stop coming if there was no reply, in the hope that it would not reach the owner of the letter. But hope is only hope because it turns out, seeing from Ferdinand's changes during this week to him is enough to explain if something happens, he said, perhaps there was finally a letter that reached Ferdinand, or what Anastasia was most afraid of was if Ferdinand knew it was him who had been hiding and obliterating all the letters addressed to him, he said, letter from the same person.

And to be honest, after reading the contents of the letter that came two weeks ago, the most recent letter that Anastasia had kept, she became convinced that the letters would never give up on quitting. The sender would not stop sending letters for reasons Anastasia had never imagined.

TOK TOK TOK

"Your Highness"

Ruth's voice coming from behind the door made her immediately hide all the debris and letters that were still intact into the box, then quickly close the secret storage drawer there.

After everything was back hidden, Anastasia took a deep breath to scoop up all her composure, then put on her best smile

"Come on Ruth"

The door immediately opened and Ruth entered politely

"It's time for lunch Your Highness"

With the best smile on her lips, Anastasia nodded her head briefly as she stepped towards the exit

"What's Ruth's menu today?" Ruth's uncomfortable gnawing made Anastasia look at her. "What's wrong?"

"Today, there are a lot of Your Highness" menus"

Anastasia's eyebrows are shrinking

"Much?"

Ruth's head only nodded briefly as she glanced at Anastasia

"Yes Your Highnesses"

"Why?"

"Sorry Your Highness, I haven't asked Mr. Stefan"

Anastasia continued to walk towards the dining room, until her steps stopped when she arrived at the dining room that felt fuller than usual.

Anastasia immediately headed to the dining table and ignored all the questions in her head. Until his point of view found something different on the dining table.

"Why are there four plates?"

Stefan who was arranging the menus with a little running around approached Anastasia while looking down politely.

"It's an order from His Highness, Your Highness. Today there are two guests who will have lunch and stay at the castle"

Both of Anastasia's eyebrows furrowed so deeply that she was looking down, her facial features clearly showing a lot of question marks

"Who?"

"Sorry Your Highness, His Highness didn't say anything about it. I was only ordered to prepare a dining table for the reception this afternoon, and also prepare two rooms for the guest to stay"

Anastasia's breathing blows. How could Ferdinand make all this without telling him? without informing himself as another host in their castle, as in charge of the castle, and as his wife.

"Your Highness.there's a horse-drawn carriage just entering the gate"

The words of a servant who suddenly came made Anastasia immediately step towards the castle door.

And right, there was a simple horse carriage that had just entered through the gate with Ferdinand and Solar's horses leading. Anastasia put on her friendly smile, her heart was quite happy because it had been a while since she had not welcomed Ferdinand who had come to the castle for lunch. Ferdinand who always bothered to return to the castle just to accompany him to lunch even though this time, Anastasia knew that Ferdinand had not come for her.

Ferdinand immediately jumped off his horse while throwing away the face of Anastasia who was already standing in front of the castle door, welcoming him with a warm smile.

Solar immediately followed Ferdinand, got off the horse, bowed politely to Anastasia, then immediately headed to the door of the horse carriage.

Still with the best smile that Anastasia could give to welcome the arrival of her husband and guests who were out of nowhere, Anastasia began to step from the steps of the front steps of the castle door to welcome the guests

But, uh,

In an instant, Anastasia's legs came to a halt, the best smile she had tried to print on her lips vanished, vanishing instantly as Solar helped Elsa out of the carriage door. Not enough to make everyone's disbelief there, Ferdinand was like a real gentleman, helping someone else to come down.

Kenna

With an amiable look and a grin, Kenna whose hands were still being held in her arms attentively by Ferdinand looked at Anastasia kindly.

"Good day Your Highness"

Kenna's friendly and polite greeting could not fit well into Anastasia's sense of hearing. Anastasia simply fell silent as she looked at Ferdinand, looking at her husband who still did not want to look at her either.

There were no words that Anastasia could explain about her feelings right now. There were no words that could describe how the taste was inside his chest right now.

"Stefan, take them to the room"

"Good Your Highness" Stefan looked at Kenna and Elsa and looked down politely. "Let me take the ladies... Please..."

"Ferdinand"

"Let's take a break for a while, Kenna, and then we'll have lunch"

Kenna's head nodded obediently, then immediately took Elsa's hand which since her arrival only stared in awe at the entire shape of the castle then, staring fixedly at Anastasia.

Anastasia was still petrified and frozen in place, her head could not go well, her mind could not yet digest the reality of what she was facing.

Until Ferdinand began to move following behind Stefan and his guests. Keep walking until his steps stop when he is next to Anastasia. He did not look at Anastasia who just continued to look forward while standing petrified, whispering softly

"They'll stay here. I think from the letters you've been hiding all along, you definitely know what caused me to bring them here"

And after speaking coldly, Ferdinand again stepped past Anastasia. Passing through Anastasia's body that was still frozen in place, passing Anastasia who had dripped warm liquid on both cheeks, passing Anastasia who had gripped the strong dress on her chest.

"Your Highness?"

"I'm fine Carl" With trembling hands Anastasia rubbed the rough of both cheeks. "I'm fine" Back, Anastasia rubbed her cheeks while chuckling. "You've told me that the cause of the change is because he's back with his girlfriend. I'm ready, Carl. I'm actually su-"

Anastasia could no longer continue her words when Ruth, with a face that was holding back a million feelings grasping Anastasia's hand.

"Let's go in, Your Highnesss"

Anastasia swallowed all of her words, gulping down harshly her feelings while giving a brief nod.

Ruth immediately followed Anastasia who had already turned towards the entrance. Carl who was still there looked at the few servants who were still there, they all looked confused and could not digest anything.

"All of you, take good care of Her Highness if you don't want Her Majesty's 'mouth' open to you"

All the waiters there immediately bowed in obediently, they were all very understanding of Carl's warning

Carl looked back at the entrance with a flat face, then glanced at Solar who had just returned to the front door when he finished watching the work of the maid who was transporting the goods 'guest' his master, the number of items clearly indicated if those guests would not only stay for an overnight or just two nights.

"It's so stupid"

Only those three words Carl spoke before he walked past Solar who had lowered his head deeply while closing his eyes firmly

--000--

Anastasia silently continued to slice the roasted venison that had been served as the main menu this afternoon. He just kept silent when the atmosphere at the usually quiet dining table, became crowded like a crowd in a cheap shop.

Ruth who stood with the servants there could only look at Anastasia with concern. Ruth has repeatedly said that if Anastasia does not have to eat at the dinner table but, when Anastasia says that sooner or later she will also eventually face the situation now, Ruth can only resign. Her mistress' decision was already round and she could only endure all the fierceness of the fury that was getting smoldering upon seeing the scene at the dining table.

Ferdinand nonchalantly and calmly enjoyed his meal by occasionally welcoming the story of his two guests. Even Ferdinand did not want to bother using the order of his table manner, nor did he do the tattoo on the table, nor did he hesitate to show his closeness to Kenna.

I don't know what the taste of the food Anastasia was chewing in such a graceful way there but, every mouthful that went into her mouth, it continued to feel bland and continued to spread a stifling pain within his chest

"Your Highness.you are very graceful. Actually, I had wanted to introduce myself but, I was quite confused how to introduce myself in the way of nobles. Would you mind if we just went straight to Your Highness?" With a voice of excitement and a big smile, Elsa immediately stood up, extending her hand towards Anastasia. Poking his hands that floated on the dinner table full of plates "I'm Elsa Kenna's sister, Your Highness"

Silent...

There was no answer or just the intention of Anastasia who wanted to change the direction of her gaze from the plate. In the minutes, Elsa's hand was still floating on the table. Until Kenna who saw that Anastasia would not accept her friendly attitude immediately pulled Elsa's hand and whispered

"Sit El"

Elsa clucked in annoyance as she looked at Anastasia in annoyance

"It is not polite to ignore the hospitality of others who su-"

"I'm done Your Highness. And allow me to leave first"

Anastasia quickly cut off Elsa's insolent speech, and without intending to receive the gospel from Ferdinand, she immediately rubbed gracefully the corner of her lips and stood up.

Elsa, who felt that Anastasia was very disrespectful to a guest, reopened her voice loudly

"Is this how the host treats Dinand's guests"

"Sit Elsa"

Kenna, who had heard that Ferdinand would not defend her sister, pulled Elsa's hand back until Elsa's butt landed firmly on the chair.

"Shut up and sit down El"

Kenna's stern voice made Elsa stop raising her buttocks, but not her mouth

The throbbing pain in his head made Ferdinand waste a long breath. The tail of his eyes kept glancing at Anastasia who had already passed away without caring about all the speech and chaos above their lunch.

Messed up? clearly...this is not a lunch that deserves to be done nobles like them especially.... Ferdinand glanced at Kenna who continued to try to make his sister silent, especially because on this dining table he had brought a super special guest.

The guest that Ferdinand never thought of, if one day could just make himself lose everything, maybe.

\=\=\=\=💛💛💛💛

Have you guys started burning??? Wkwkwk...

Please trace...