64 Dangerous Mind Game (2/2)
”Does it mean someone else helped Lady Prescott awaken?”
”Uh-huh,” he said. ”Lady Prescott knows who she is. I felt that when we were talking a while ago.” He smiled when he remembered their conversation. ”I should have known that Lady Prescott was special when Nia suggested that I choose her as Kiho's partner. Unfortunately, my beloved had tricked me into believing that she just wanted her friend to rise up in the society.”
”It's not that Her Royal Highness has tricked you, Your Majesty,” the captain said. ”You know that she has a hidden agenda but you just chose to turn a blind eye.”
He laughed at how true that was. ”I let Nia do all the things she did behind my back because I wanted her to think that she has freedom. If I breathed against the back of her neck every minute of her life, she would have felt suffocated. That's why I chose not to look at the things she wanted to hide from me, such as the owner of the heart that she wanted. I also pretended that I didn���t know she was killing off Fire Mages just to keep her by my side.”
”Her Royal Highness believed that she had fooled you, Your Majesty.”
”That's what makes her cute,” he said with a smile. ”But since she failed to do what she wanted to achieve, then I shall continue it in her stead as her twin brother and lover.”
”I'm surprised that you managed to control your anger, Your Majesty,” Captain Sherwood said in amusement. ”I thought you were going to kill Lady Prescott after I told you that she has the heart of the Supreme.”
And that meant only Lady Prescott could have ordered the replica to burn Nia alive.
”At first, I was really mad and I even swore to kill whoever it was that caused Nia to end up that in that terrible state,” he admitted. ”But after a few days of watching Nia unconscious, I felt glad that she fell into a coma. I don't care even if her physical beauty doesn't recover 100%. What's important to me is that she's alive…” He smirked before he continued. ”And that she could no longer run away from me. Not in that horrible state.”
”You're crazy, Your Majesty,” the captain said with a smirk. ”No wonder Her Royal Highness is desperate to get away from you.”
He just laughed it off. ”I can't kill Lady Prescott anyway. Not yet, at least. I still need her to give birth to her son.”
”Will you really let the boy live despite the prophecy, Your Majesty?”
”Of course,” he said. ”I need the Kiho and his child to get what I want in the future.”
”Speaking of Captain Kiho, do you think he's not aware of Lady Prescott's identity?”
”He is not aware,” he said confidently. ”For now.”
”What if Lady Prescott confesses her identity to Captain Kiho?”
”I'm betting one hundred percent that Kiho will choose Lady Prescott over me,” he said with a laugh. ”Kiho and I are the same. We will abandon everything for our lover.”
The captain's forehead knotted in confusion. ”Wouldn't that be a problem, Your Majesty?”
”I will turn a blind eye to Kiho's betrayal for a year,” he said firmly. ”I will leave their family alone until Lady Prescott gives birth to her son.”
”But why wait for a year, Your Majesty?”
”Because I'm sure that in a year, Lady Prescott is going to prepare for a war against me. That means she'd secretly meet up with her allies,” he explained. ”All I need to do is wait for the perfect timing and catch them all together. If I ask my people to follow her, then she'd be very careful. But if I leave her alone, then she'd let down her guard. It will be easier to catch her and the other Fire Mages that way.”
”Oh, that makes sense,” Captain Sherwood agreed. ”But what about Kiho? I'm sure he won't leave Lady Prescott and their child.”
”Kiho's son can stay with us despite his Fire Mage blood because the child is one of the keys I need. But Lady Prescott is replaceable. We can throw her away after she gives birth to the child,” Aku explained. ”And most of all, I have a way to make Kiho return to my side.”
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[THE WAR begins now.]
Tilly was thinking deeply while she was alone inside the carriage. She asked Damian to sit beside the coachman because she needed to think.
[The emperor clearly gave me an ultimatum.]
In a year, Emperor Aku would take her child away from her.
She was pretty sure that the emperor would leave her alone to make her lower her guard. He definitely wanted her to ask help from her allies so that he could catch her all together. But that also meant that the emperor wasn't aware yet of whom his real enemies were.
[I have to be careful to protect the Denvers as well.]
Then, there was the thing about the High Priest, too. During the three days that she would serve his temple, she had to find the truth about the prophecy.
[I need to know why His Majesty needs my son.]
But above anything else, she had to let Kiho know about her real identity first. She needed all the ally that she could get. And of course, she wanted her greatest support to be her husband.
[Kiho, you're going to choose me and Winter… right?]
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