A few hours earlier~
As Alexander carried Eleanora back in her room again, suddenly the butler came in running which surprised him a little.
Eleanora, who had almost fallen asleep jolted awakes and curiously looks at the butler.
"Your Grace…"
"The imperial knights are here… the emperor has summoned you."
Alexander frowns as he hears the butler's words and puts down Eleanora on her feet.
"Did they explain the reason?"
"No…but it will probably because of the crown prince-"
"Crown prince?!"
"What happened to him?!"
Eleanora curiously asks.
If she isn't wrong then those cosplayer aunts have called Cathain the crown prince, right?
Both Alexander and the butler were shocked because of her words.
They have never seen her so interested on the crown prince before.
"This has nothing to do you."
Alexander speaks with an annoyed tone.
Her sudden change of behavior was really pissing him off, especially how close she sounds with the crown prince.
"Call Maria and tell her to watch over the princess. I will go to the imperial palace-"
"No! Take me with you!"
Eleanora suddenly yells as she thought of a plan.
If she can force them to take her outside, maybe she can know where she is and find a chance to contact her family.
Then they can help her to rescue Cathain too.
But the more she acted like that, the weirder Alexander felt.
"No, you can't come with me."
"The crown prince is really fierce; he even caused you to fell on the pool."
"Did you forget that?"
Alexander asks and Eleanora's mouth twitched.
When did those things happened and why can't she remember that?
"I don't know, take me there! If I can see the place where the incident has happened, maybe I can recall it!"
Eleanora speaks in a firm voice but Alexander was firm with his words.
He didn't liked how she was being so eager to meet a man.
"No means no Elea-"
Alexander pauses on his words as he feels a weight on his legs and looking down, he finds his 12 year old daughter clinging onto his feet like a koala.
"T-This…"
Even the butler felt like his eyes was popping out because of the scene in front of him.
His noble and dignified lady, the role model of all the noble girls was actually clinging on her father's leg at this age?!
"Please take me with you! I will be good and behave well!"
"Please…"
Eleanora pouted as she made puppy eyes.
Even a cold man like her father, Ethan Montogamy used to melt by her this trick.
There is no way this man in front of her won't melt such a power move.
But seeing that the man just kept staring at her with astonished eyes, Eleanora feared her plan might really fail.
So she tilted her head more cutely as she started to speak childishly.
"Peewees…take Elle with you mister…"
"…"
"I am not some mister."
Alexander murmured in a low voice even if his facial expression remained the same.
"Then what should I call you?"
Eleanora asked cutely as her main intension was to please this man in front of her in any way and then get out of this place.
Even she felt cringe because of her acting.
But there is no other choice.
Alexander stared at his daughter, who was acting cute to gain something.
Even if he knew that, he couldn't help but melt after seeing her acting like this.
She has always been overly matured than her others peers.
There was always an expression on her face that could only been see in adults.
She was always dignified and serious about everything.
She always wanted to get close to him but she couldn't express it.
So, she would always follow him around closely to spend time with him.
And he couldn't express that he knew that she is following him around as that would hurt her pride.
This was why her sudden change was making Alexander feel strange.
This girl in front of him knew how to use people, which was something she didn't know before.
Eleanora La Alexander Dalton was always straightforward about everything, this makes the people around her feel offended as it seems like she is insulting them or showing off her knowledge.
Where she just simply explained her opinion and didn't care about what the people around her thought about it.
This personality of hers made her peers to avoid her and thus she had no friends.
But this didn't bothered her either as she found them too dumb and immature to be her friend.
Because Eleanora La Alexander Dalton may crave for love and attention from the people she likes, but she will never beg for it or please them directly.
She will held her head high and make people look up at her, hide her flows and show be the example of perfection.
"Call me papa…than I will consider taking you with me."
Alexander knows that how childish he sounded but he couldn't help it.
He just wanted to hear those words again.
It was rare to see her acting like this after all.
Eleanora freeze as she hears his words for a moment but she quickly fixes her expression as she wears a big smile on her face.
"Take me with you, Papa…"
She acted the best act she could ever do and hoped that this man will finally get satisfied and take her out.
"Say that again…"
Alexander speaks in a daze and Eleanora tries to control nerves to calm down.
'Calm down, Elle… this is a golden opportunity to discover whatever fuck is happening right now.'
'You can't get angry and ruin this opportunity.'
"Please take Elle out with you, my dear papa…"
"Elle loves you so much…"
"You will take Elle out, right?"
Eleanora looks at Alexander as soon as she finishes buttering him up but…
'What the?'
'Why does this man looks even more fierce then before?!'
'Did I overact?'
Meanwhile, Alexander just stood still as her words kept repeating on his mind.
~My dear papa~
~Elle loves you so much~
Alexander's heart felt like blasting with his every beat as it seem to pierce by an arrow because his daughter looked too much cute.
And in the end, he ended up bringing her out with him as Eleanora's cute trap successfully worked on him.
…
'I am not in a Disney land right?'
Eleanora thought as she looked out from the carriage's window.
Everyone was dressing up in a weird style, or she can say they are dressing up the way she have seen those 18's people in fashion magazines or shows.
The man's carried swords, where the woman's was dressed up in elegant dresses like she was.
'I didn't transmigrate into a novel like those female leads, right?'
But that didn't made sense to her.
She died in a plane crash.
She wasn't a workaholic with no boyfriends like those female leads either, who had debts.
She was a daughter of a multi billionaire business man, who had no vicious step mother or sisters who wanted her dead.
She even had a handsome and multi billionaire boyfriend too, who didn't cheat on her with her best friend.
He may had a girl he loved in his heart, but that doesn't consider as cheating as he never said he loved her in the first place.
Why would she end up in a novel than?
And which novel is it?
No wonder this people didn't understood her words back then.
Eleanora racked her brain to think which novel it might be, but in the end she failed as she reads over ten novels every day.
God knows how many novels she has read until now…
'I just hope it's not a harem novel and the male lead is handsome and rich, mommy has said that I should never lower my standards no matter where I am.'
Thinking about a handsome male lead a shy smile appears on her face and then her eyes fall on her so called papa of this world.
Eleanora immediately fixes her posture as she mimics him and sits upright with a calm expression like his.
But this makes the frown on his face deeper and she feels irritated.
'What upsets him again?'
She rolls her eyes with displeasure as she lets out a deep breath before sitting comfortably like before.
Right then, her round blue eyes widen with surprise as she notices his lips to curve up a little into a smile.
It was only for a short moment but she manages to catch it.
'He…he smiled right?!'
Eleanora didn't know why she was becoming so happy to see him smiling.
A warm feeling spreads in her heart after seeing him like that and she felt weird to feel like this.
This man, she has meet him less than a few hours…then why does she feels so sad while looking at him and also feel like she knows him for many years?
But then she becomes stunt as time seems to stop around her.
~Papa has always loved you princess!!~
A painful voice suddenly rings inside of her head and Eleanora instantly looks at the silver haired man in front of her.
~… Papa loves you so much, I always have. Please don't forget that~
The voice she just heard sounded like the man in front of her.
Unconsciously a tear drop lefts from her eyes and Alexander becomes shock to see her crying all of a sudden.
"Eleanora? What happen?! Why are you crying?"
But she couldn't reply or move her body.
His voice sounded too familiar with the voice in her mind.
Just what is happening?