Saving The Abandoned Empress

80 Chapter 80 ~ “Jealous”

Eleanora quickly pushed off Ain as she felt her heart stopped it beatings. She feared that her suspicion might come true if she kept looking into his eyes.

‘No it can’t be true... it can’t happen with me. I finally found a friend whom i can talk to, share my opinions with.

Ain and i share same thoughts, which the crown prince and i didn’t...’

Eleanora suddenly paused in her thoughts as a sudden realisation hit her.

‘Did he and i really shared no familiar thoughts?’

In the past, no matter either it was a war strategy or a border negotiation, Eleanora and Cathain shared the same thought.

Make the other party submissive... Obey willingly or forced to obey.

First, use negotiation as an excuse to make them obey...if it didn’t worked then, use force to make them obey with superior power.

Although it bought prosperity for the empire and good life for commoners, but it made their, especially Eleanora’s charecter as a tyrant empress who was cruel in both battlefield and strategy to the people.

.....

Eleanora felt her body go numb and Cathain clenched his fist when he saw the rejection look in Eleanora’s eyes.

But before he could do anything, the rushing Liana and Dominic called out for her.

“Eleanora!”

“Brother Dom? Lennie?”

Eleanora approched them and Dominic looked around as he found something was not right.

“What happened Ele? Are you allright?”

“Yeah Brother. It was just some fly’s causing trouble here and there.”

“...”

The royal knights was speechless. The scene which happened here just now was no normal scene okay?

You almost cheated on our crown prince with this countryside secret knight in broad daylight!

But they can’t speak that out loud, so they choosed to stay silent.

Their crown prince, who asks for a report everyday about the crown princess might kill them if he heard this.

But they also can’t hide it right? So one of them have to go forward to ask her about this apple selling countryside boy.

“Ahem... Your Ladyship, Can you please explain this to us?”

‘So that we can save our head from the crown prince’s sword?’

“Yeah, Your Ladyship, what is the whole thing about?”

Both Sir Anthony and Raymond asked one after one to Eleanora.

Then Dominic and Liana also noticed the boy who was standing behind of Eleanora, He didn’t looked like a normal mercenary at all.

They narrowed their eyes as they started to examine Cathain.

‘This guys doesn’t have magic powers? But why does this normal thing feels weird?’

Dominic thought.

The magic stones that Liana, Dominic and Eleanora used was great but it wasn’t as pure as the red magic stone which Alexander gave to Cathain.

[At first when Cathain saved Eleanora from the lake after Eleanora’s rebirth, Alexander had ordered his aid Raynor to sent a gift to Cathain, thanking him for saving Eleanora.

So that magic stone was the gift which Alexander sent to settle scores, but ended up giving Cathain an opportunity to get closer with Eleanora]

“Let’s go back first, i will explain later.”

Seeing the crowd around them and her previous intimate posture with Ain, which was easy to misunderstand... Eleanora got into the carriage first as she spoke.

‘But... why are you all here?’

Eleanora glanced at the two people infront of her whose face was like ‘tell us now’ and the person beside her who was like ‘it has nothing to do with me’.

“Ele... tell us now.”

“Hahaa... Can’t we wait till we reach home?”

“No!”

Both Dominic and Liana spoke in unison, making Eleanora fell speechless.

After reaching the duchy in a short time, Eleanora was once again crowded, who demanded an explanation.

“Well Sorry... i didn’t introduce him sooner to you guys.”

Eleanora started to speak and the four people infront of her was so concentrated on her that she felt goosebumps.

“He is the guy whom father decided on to help me train swordmanship before he left...”

“...”

Both Anthony and Raymond felt like their soul left their body.

Anthony, the usual quiet guy burst out for the first time in his life because he didn’t wanted to die yet and Raymond caught him so that he doesn’t fall.

“It’s impossible!!! We guarded you for the past three years but we never once saw this guy before!!

Where the heck this man came from? Our crown prince is more handsome then this guy!!”

“Wait, My lady... are you telling us this guy helped you to train for the past three years?”

“No, that’s not the point... you were really learning swordmanship?”

‘We are dead today...’

How are they supposed to report that, their lady has been training swordmanship for the past three years in secret, not to mention the mentor being a young handsome guy?

The crown prince has ordered them to keep away even male animals from the crown prince, where she meet up and train with an actual male for the past three years?

And that too a commoner who doesn’t look like one?

Unlike the two overly stunned knights, Dominic and Liana was different.

‘Even though he dresses like a mercenary but his aura is really different and elegent. Just who is he?’

Dominic was busy in sizing up Ain where Liana narrowed her eyes in suspicions.

There would be no way Cathain wouldn’t know that a guy was training Eleanora and let it continue.

Even if the present Cathain doesn’t remember anything but knowing how possessive and obsessed the past Cathain was... even if the world changes, but his personality wouldn’t.

[To Liana, The current Cathain doesn’t remember anything as when they was doing the sacrificial, Duke Richardo had said only the person with most magic power would remember everything.

At that time, because Cathain was using his own magic powers to keep Eleanora’s dead body froze and her head attached with her body, his magic power was lesser then Alexander and Liana.]

Liana was lost in thought where Raymond was holding the almost fainted Anthony, Dominic trying to understand the situation and Eleanora was trying to explain.

“Okay okay... let’s go in first and the discuss!”

Eleanora said as she went inside first to get out of this mess. The knights looked at Ain with disdain but they was shocked to find the powerful superior aura that was coming out from him.

‘We have to report this to the prince...’

Anthony and Raymond followed Eleanora in along with the Dominic who was curious about the guy who was aiming after his cousin.

So it was only Liana and Cathain left at the entrance, with an awkward silent.

“I didn’t expected to meet you here like this, Your highness the... Crown Prince.”

Hearing Liana, Cathain smriked and looked into Liana’s caramel brown eyes and spoke in a low voice that only Liana could hear.

“Yeah... i also didn’t expected to meet the dead ducal daughter, Jennifer La Liana Raven.”

Liana’s eyes widened in shock and her heart felt like it stopped it’s beatings. How did he figured out her real identity?

Her hair is hidden and changed coloured, even her father didn’t found her yet in this life and there is also no record about her.

Then how did he found out? Does he remember the past? But that seems impossible.

But she can’t deny that possibility either.

Seeing the dumbstruck Liana, Cathain was satisfied as he avoided the danger.

“I hope a happy corporation with you, Lady Raven.”

Cathain spoke before he entered the mansion with a carefree mind. Now that both of them knew each other’s secret, he doesn’t have to think much about her exposing him to Eleanora.

But then he was suddenly pulled into a side with his back pinned down against the wall.

He looked down and meet Eleanora’s angry fierce blue eyes.

.....

“What were you talking for so long with Lennie?”

“Pfff-”

Cathain was stunned for a moment but then he chuckled a little. He liked this feeling and look in her eyes.

“Why are you laughing?”

“Nothing...”

“Stay away from Lennie... My brother likes her. You better forget about her!”

Cathain’s lips curled upward as he observed Eleanora’s facial expression and feel the change of emotions on her because of their magic bond which Eleanora doesn’t feel yet.

Eleanora was getting more angry because of his lack of attention. She was about to yell at him again when Cathain suddenly bend down to meet her eyes and whispered to her in a low husky voice.

“...Are you jealous, My empress?”