***
EDICKART is looking at Evelyn. His brow twitches with the word she said.
"Lady Evelyn, what did you say?" He asked trying to think that what he heard was wrong.
Evelyn gulps down.
She knows that the Crown Prince also doesn't want to marry her but just want the political connection her family has.
She stares at the Crown Prince with crystal intention. To let him know that she will not proceed with it.
"Your highness... -I..."
Evelyn stalls some time. She's calming her nerves.
"You don't need to marry me... No. I don't think I can marry you! If what you want is the political power that my family possesses then... I can't help you with it..."
". . ."
"You also know that my family doesn't favor me. You wouldn't get anything with having a fiancee like me..."
". . ."
Evelyn intently stares at the Crown Prince and not avoiding his eyes, to directly let her intention be known to him.
She tried to argue and list down the disadvantages that the Prince will have to take when she becomes his fiancee.
The list goes on as Evelyn talk fluently. Gil only listened at the side while the Crown Prince Edickart's eye was wide in shock.
He naturally replied to Evelyn while he was astonished.
"I didn't know that Lady Evelyn isn't stupid."
"Excuse me?"
"Oh! A slipped of a tongue. It wasn't my intention."
". . ."
"What I meant was a compliment." Edickart smile knowingly.
He tries to swift off his sarcasm with a smile but Evelyn knew his personality because of the book.
'This brat?! Me stupid? Nonsense! I was a college student that is a candidate for the summa cum laude! If I wasn't stabbed by my... Tsk!'
She cut the thought. It was a memory from the past that she wants to bury along with her hurtful memories of this world.
Evelyn didn't bother to answer the Crown Prince. She just smiles to hide her annoyance. Even though she wants to slap this guy in front of him, he was still the Crown Prince of the Livingstone Kingdom.
'Harming him would be punishable by death. Let's keep it in for a while...' Evelyn thought and inwardly sigh...
"So... You said you don't want to marry me? Why? Didn't you use to beg to be with me?"
Evelyn twitch.
It's true that she had done it before, and seeing the Crown Prince rub salt to her wound was making her boil with anger.
She hated the part where she used to do that. Questioning her insanity to the point that she also unknowingly agrees that she was stupid.
'Stupid Evelyn!!! Why do you have to do that!?' She clutched her dress to keep her emotions intact and fool the Prince.
"Did I do that, Your Highness? Pardon me, but I recently lost my memories. I don't know what you're talking about."
She flashed a smile making the Crown Prince rest his chin to his palm.
"Hmmm~ Is that so?"
'Interesting...' He thought.
He knew how to discern people, but looking at Evelyn who only smiles even though she was taunted with insults, her mask didn't even crack for a bit.
Crown Prince raised both his brows, applauding her inwardly with her patience.
'This is going to be fun~' Edickart thought, he found a new way to kill time.
That would be... pestering his so-called "fiancee".
***
The afternoon tea was also a terrible experience for Evelyn.
The Crown Prince went home after talking to her for an hour.
It was tiring.
I mean... Who wouldn't get tired exchanging words with the Crown Prince?
All his words cannot be taken lightly as he has a double meaning to every sentence.
It was a talk that mental fatigue couldn't be avoided.
And until the end, that Crown Prince e-D*CK-art... Oh umm sorry... What it meant was Edickart talk with arrogance to Evelyn.
"As long as I don't have the official letter of the Duke requesting to cancel the engagement then, I wouldn't consider what you are saying..."
". . ."
"And will your Father allow you to do that? Your family hates you to the core... Pfft! Oh, I'm sorry... that was another slipped of a tongue."
He shrugged and dusted his pants, then walk away laughing.
Evelyn was left dumbfounded, confused about what happened with the one hour talk that she had with the Crown Prince.
"That d**khead! I swear I'll get back to him!
Fuming with anger, Evelyn stood up, walking away from the back garden and entering the marble walls of the Emsworth house.
The canopies with detailed design cast a shadow to the hallways that Evelyn mind wonder and calmed down.
"Haaa... What am I even doing?" She stops with her tracks and breathed the air with the mix of scented roses flowing from it.
When a voice from her left emerged.
"How unlucky to bump with this useless b*tch"
Turning her head, she saw the familiar head and gaze that she usually avoids.
'Did he just call me bitch? This brat?'
Evelyn narrowed her eyes. She can't believe how her brother addresses him.
"Did you just call me bitch, Allan?"
"So?"
". . ."
"So what if I call you bitch, Bitch?"
Evelyn laughs menacingly.
"I can't believe I have a pathetic brother like you."
Allan flinched, he folded his arms and stare at Evelyn.
"What did you say?"
"Pathetic. There's no reason to stick around here. I'll be on my way."
'There's no reason to stoop so low with his mental state.' Evelyn thought after calming herself.
She started to walk and past Allan when he grabs Evelyn's hand.
"Don't you dare walk away, Evelyn. I'm not finished yet!"
Evelyn pulled her arm away from Allan's grasp.
"I don't have time to talk to someone who's mentally unstable and only know how to vent his anger to his sister..."
". . ."
Evelyn step forward and whispered to Allan.
"So, get lost!"
*Slap!
It was so fast that Evelyn noticed the pain a bit late.
She cupped her face with her trembling hands and stare at Allan. While Gil was menacingly cursing his brother who slaps her.
"Child, Let me use your power! I'll kill this brat without a trace. I'll shred him into pieces!!!! How dare he...!!!!"
'Gil, stop!!! Let me handle this!'
Gil can be heard clicking his tongue in disappointment but his murderous aura was still lingering in the air.
Creating the violent winds that make the plants and trees sway roughly.
While Evelyn was busy stopping Gil in doing something that will bring her trouble, Allan was smiling.
This is the side of her sister that he knows the most.
The silent Evelyn will quiver in fear when he got angry.
But what he didn't know is she was trembling because of anger and she's making all reasons inside her head to stop herself from hurting Allan.
"That's right... That's how it should be! Be scared like how you used to be..."
". . ."
"... don't forget your sin! It was you who killed mother! It was also you who broke this family apart!"
". . ."
"You don't have the right to be happy!"
Allan burst out all his anger at Evelyn and blame her for everything.
Meanwhile, Evelyn was confused with Allan, she frowns at him, she doesn't know what he's talking about.
'Who said I was happy!!!!? Tsk!'
And if it is really her fault, Allan shouldn't be treating his sister like this!
'Evelyn is still part of this family! For Goodness sake!!!' Evelyn screams in her head.
It was unfair. To be blamed for the things she can't remember and no one will tell her what her sin is.
'They want me to accept it without me knowing?! Bullshit!'
"What? Did you get your tongue cut? You can't say anything do you?"
". . ."
"Don't think that because Father is showing attention to you, you'll have guts to talk back and walk away from me."
". . ."
"... remember Evelyn, you're just a nuisance to everyone!"
Evelyn forced herself to not make any rash decision that will make her reputation even worst in the estate.
She had enough of the public opinion but she can tolerate the rumors.
But letting her brother talk to her like a piece of crap was something she can't afford.
Evelyn decided to talk back to her brother.
"Allan..."
Evelyn steps closer.
"You think you're better than me?"
". . ."
"We're on the same page... What do you think was the difference??? I was stubborn for gaining my family's love that I know I can't have but you...?"
She then looked at Allan from head to toe.
"You stubbornly pushed everyone out that eventually led them to distance themselves to you..."
". . ."
"And you're angry with me because you see the Duke getting close to me..."
". . ."
"You're ego was hurt because Father, notice me and is giving me attention... While you? You are stuck in the past and only know how to blame his little sister for what happened..."
Allan's sunset eyes glistened with hatred and answered Evelyn.
"Stuck in the past? Ha! You killed mother, Evelyn! That's your sin!"
"Huh? What?! I killed mother?"
"Ha! This is why I hate you!"
". . . "
"You forget everything just to escape the painful memories! While Father and I were stuck seeing mother's murderer because you're part of the goddamn Family!!!!"
". . ."
"So, don't go lecturing me. It's disgusting how you pretend to be the victim!"
". . ."
Allan then bumped Evelyn's shoulder, making her plopped down in the hard marble tiles and he walked away from her after popping all his issues with Evelyn.
And Evelyn was left in the hallway, looking at his brother's back, speechless.