"You devil ingrate!!! How dare you!? How dare you do this to me!!!,"
The woman I called 'mother' was in distress. Her perfectly chipped manicures are so ugly and sharp around the edges that it became a weapon clawing my cheek. She grabbed my hair, but I kept my face calm and collected. Because it's one of those days again.
Where my mother is insane.
"You think I didn't know that you sneaked in that old man's room and killed him!!? You did, didn't you. Oh, god...," she released my hair and threw herself on sofa, now sobbing messily. "What kind of noble daughter did I breed? Refused the marriage, kill her fiancée, entering the house with clothes so tight one would think she's a whore and now...you're leaving me to join the guild as an assassin. Everyone is now calling you a cursed fiancée,"
She cried, glaring at me. "Who are you?,"
It made me wonder, who am I really?
As I look at myself in the foot length mirror, I recalled one of my past lives where I left my mentally sick mother and abandon my duties as a baron's daughter. We were nobles, but we were broke. So, she 'sold' me to a rich count like any other nobles would do. I wasn't filial at that time and I definitely hang out with the rats of the underworld. Langerfield, the guild leader, was interested with me and personally killed my old man fiancée at that time.
To save my mother, the only way to do it is to leave the house and join the guild so that Langerfield won't control my mother.
And this mirror now reflects me, Carina, wearing black leather clothes that is meant for an assassin to wear. It's tight so it doesn't make any unnecessary movements and black so it can't be detected in the dark. But wearing this again does make me remember that time.
I opened the door to my balcony, greeting the midnight air that blows my long flowy hair behind and I glanced at myself for the last time in the mirror.
The days I became an assassin is over. And I'd rather let it be forgotten.
Climbing up the tree, I scanned the surroundings of Uld's palace. "As expected of a forgotten concubine, even the palace's security is terrible," I thought to myself.
There are two knights guarding the door, but both of them were yawning and drinking whiskey. It's obvious the emperor send them there for formalities' sake. I hastily climbed over the gate unnoticed and saw a balcony with a pot of primroses at the edge. That balcony definitely leads to his room.
Before knocking the door, I glanced at the primroses. Those flowers were everywhere because Uld said its Vance's favourite flower. "I came here empty-handed aren't I," I thought. I went to the pot and picked up some of those flowers, smiling bashfully when I remembered the meaning of these flowers.
'Eternal love'.
"Wait...why am I embarrassed?," I pinched myself
I pressed my ear on the door that was closed by the curtains. And when I confirmed that Uld and Demetrius is not there because their footsteps weren't heard, I knocked on the door. I walk a few steps behind, hoping that he answered.
And there he is.
When he opened the door, the curtain flew inside his room, covering his face. Then, it slowly reveals his face, handsome and chiselled with a slightly predatory eyes, looking slightly gaunt.
For some reason in my heart, this all felt familiar to me.