Eiana didn't say anything and just kept staring in the ground without raising her head. She knew that she and made them very worried. And now she regretted every single thing she did. It was all thanks to Darius that she knew the real reason and she came back or she didn't even imagine what would be the consequences.
She realized now that she had been so selfish. She never once thought about the kingdom, her father, her brothers who loved her so much. She only thought about herself.
The next moment, Arthur stepped forward and held both her shoulders and shook her hard. "Where the fu*k do you think you went?! Can you please care to explain us!!! Do you know how much we were worried about you?!!! " Arthur yelled at her. His eyes were glimmering with tears, that he refused to shed at all.
And at this time, he cared least about his language... Even the hearers didn't bother about his words or that he cursed in front of someone many people. For a part, they knew well about their second Prince's character and on the other part, they knew how he was feeling right now.
Eiana didn't react much, she just shut her eyes tightly and listened to him. Her keeping mute was and not retorting was actually her owning her mistakes.
Arthur shook her hands again, and shouted again but in a slightly shaky voice, "Y.. You just left the palace? Without informing anyone? What do you think we would do if something happened to you?! Fool! "
Gideon who was quiet all this while, closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He opened his eyes and walked to them. He put a hand on Arthur's shoulder and patted it. "It's okay Arthur. Let her go, you are hurting her. " It was then did Arthur realize that he has been holding her too tightly. She is delicate, so it might have left marks and he immediately released her.
Eiana put her hands on her shoulders and frowned. And looking at her reaction, Arthur felt more bad and he pursed his lips. It was all on a whim, he didn't really want to hurt her. Gideon came over to her and then suddenly hugged her. He then asked in a very gentle voice, "Are you okay, dear sister? "
His gentle words were like needles to her heart, pricking again and again and making her realize her mistakes. She bit her lips Abd slowly nodded. Gideon sighed and then turned back and ordered the guards to go back to their work. He gave the coachman and released him too. Though, the coachman got a lot of money from Darius earlier, he was not so stupid so say no to the free money that came his way.
He felt that today was really his lucky day and the Princess was really lucky for him too. He became rich overnight!
...
Gideon took Eiana back into the castle in her chamber. And he made her sit on her bed. Elyn and Seryn too came running into the Princess's quarters as soon as she heard that the Princess was back. Goodness knew how much scared they were from the morning when they heard that the Princess had run away.
The news obviously spread across the whole castle, more faster than a tornado and King Edward knew that his previous daughter was back. And he hurriedly rushed his the Princess quarters to meet her.
Eiana felt so strange as she saw everyone hovering around her and looking at her with so many strange gazes and different emotions. She wished that she could just snap her fingers and disappear somewhere. But she also didn't blame any of them. As she knew very well that she was the roof of all the drama here.