"Lily!!! The ball has begun, hurry!!" Agatha commanded Lily as she stood by the door, staring at her sister who was still wearing her jewelleries,getting ready for the ball.
Lily had no hurry as she didn't like any of this one bit, talking and dancing with lords whom she herself has no interest in. All they do is talk about their families and businesses and how many children they'd want with her.
Akhh!!! Just thinking about it makes her blood boil.
Lily doesn't want a marriage like her parents, she wants something more, not just meeting and deciding to get married without even knowing each other, yes some it works like her parents but she won't say the same about herself and many ither marriages. She wants to know someone well before tying the not, but clearly, her parents and the one banging the door don't seem to understand that "Lily!!"
"Am done!!" Lily stood up as her maids finished preparing her for the ball tonight.
She rushed through the corridors along with her sister Agatha, who couldn't stop complaining about Lily being late. " Father's going to murder us!!" She said
" Unless one of us gets a duke tonight!!" Lily added. Agatha looked at her and chuckled before she too added " or a viscount," and they both chuckled.
When they were few feet away from the grand stairs, they stopped their fats pace and calmed down before they both walked down with nobility.
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The ball downstairs was held in a large grand ball room, the chandelier above them shone brightly making everything seems majestic, it's people dressed perfectly for the ball, girls and their mamas dress wonderfully in puffy ballgowns while bachelors and married men arrived in their tuxedos, of course in any colour one preferred.
Her father, Lord Remington, was busy talking to Lily's sisters' husbands, telling them about his victorious wars when he heard one of the gentlemen saying, " The jewels are here."
Lord Remington turned and looked at the stairs....
Two of his daughters, one dressed in a royal blue gown, adorned with silver linings all over, curved her upper body well and covered her lower body with a puffy gown, her neck adorned with gold as her hair tied in a bun held by a beautiful golden pin, few of her strands escaped but It didn't make her any less beautiful. Beside her was her younger sister, Agatha, who was in a green ballgown adorned with gold linings, her neck covered in gold, and her hair was let loose.
"Jewels indeed," one of the lords added, as everyone else stared at the two ladies coming down the stairs.
Agatha and Lily walked down calmly as they walked side by side together. The moment they reached the ball, one gentleman was already waiting for Lily, holding out his hand, asking her for a dance.
Lily stared at his hand before he stared at her sister Agatha, Agatha smiled and walked away, leaving Lily with the gentleman in front of her.
Lily's heart was pounding as she didn't want to accept his hand. He knew this Lord well.
Lord Victor Sinclair, the Duke of Vielsley. A bustard he was.
"Mi lady, may I have this dance?" He asked once more when he noticed Lily not responding to him.
With a heavy heart, Lily accepted his hand,leaving the Lord with a bright smile on his face. The Lord led them to the dance floor, as Lily followed behind him, looking all honoured to have this dance with the Lord.
Her father, Lord Remington, smiled the moment he saw lily accepting the lord's hand for a dance. He turned to his wife, Lady Remington, whom she too wore a bright smile on her face as she watched her daughter, heading to the dance floor with a duke in her hand.
"Could this finally be the night where my daughter finally gets her duke, Lady Remington?" Lord Remington asked his wife as he stared at the two of them.
Lily and the Lord already started dancing when lady Remington answered, " hopefully yes my lord, if the girl doesn't reject the gentleman at the last minute,"
Lord Remington turned and looked at his wife with a questioning look when he heard his two other daughters chuckling
"Yes father, the last time lily has a dance with a viscount, she danced with him and had chats with him as if she was rwsy any moment when he asks for her hand in marriage, but when he asked, she denied him right in the face"
Oh yes, their was that, Lily and her treacherous act of liking and having interest with someone only to reject them the moment they ask for her hand in marriage.
Thus, girl, was she planning to die unmarried? Her father asked himself as he stared at the girl who was dancing with a Lord.
"Sisters!!" Agatha called out as she went and hugged her sisters. " You look marvelous tonight," she complemented them.
"Well, not as marvellous as your sister Lily over there,"
"Well, of course she looks marvellous. She's been staring at herself, making sure everything's perfect before the ball for hours!!" Agatha stated, leaving her sisters giggling quietly.
"Well, you also look marvellous agatha. Are you planning on catching a duke's eye too?" Her mother commented as well, teasing the little one of them all.
"Yyakk, mother!!! I have no plans of catching a duke's eye tonight, maybe when I am 18, but for tonight, I'll leave that to my sister Lily. She's next to get married in the family "
" If she says yes for that matter"
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"You look bewitching tonight miss Remington, am pleased to be a part of your first dance miss Remington"
"I'll say the same to you too lord victor, you look way too good tonight that clearly All the ladies cannot keep their eyes of you, I could swear that the moment we finish this dance and be with my family, all the girls with their mamas will swum around you like bees"
Lord Victor laughed at what Lily said, surely pleased with her statement, and Lily could see through how pleased this fool was with her statement.
"Well I certainly agree with what you say miss Remington, as you're not the first to say such words"
"And am quite sure many more will come and say the same thing"
"Ofcourse, but I won't be the only one who'll be swum tonight miss Remington. Maybe you haven't looked yourself in a clear mirror, but you look way too good tonight that even I could swear that all men will propose to you the moment they get a chance, but I won't give them a minute to waste as I shall claim you as mine before they even do so"
This, she didn't like this one bit.
This Lord, not one beautiful whore has not seen this lord's manhood and he dares to want to share it with her? Not in a million years!! She shall avoid this matter na dbrwak his heart for good to know that he ehas no interest in him. But that too, in a more careful way, to make sure that she won't get in trouble with her father, Lord Remington.
And that plan shall be done.