"I am sorry… I failed to save you again…"
"…My empress."
Those were the last words before she lost her conscious completely and her body suddenly started to feel really cold.
There was no burning pain in her body anymore and she felt like some kind of powerful yet gentle powers was fusing with her blood, making her feel colder.
Her eyelids felt heavy but she still tried to open them.
Was they saved?
The plane crash must be a dream right?
She is still in their hotel room, sleeping while hugging him.
Milenka kept thinking as she tried to adjust the sudden cold feeling in her body.
Then she finally felt her strength coming back and slowly opened her eyes.
Everything looked dark as she opened them and it took a few minutes for the light to reflect on her eyes.
But the surrounding noise made her feel uncomfortable.
"The princess woke up!"
"Thank god!"
"Are you alright, Princess?"
Milenka frowned because of the loud noises ringing in her ear and a frown appeared on her face because of the terrible headache.
But as soon as her vision got clear, she jolted up from her bed as she caught a man with silver hair leaning down to stare at her.
A confused look appeared on that man's face because of her sudden reaction and Milenka looked around anxiously.
"Eleanora,"
The man with silver hair called out an unfamiliar yet oddly familiar name and Milenka got even more scared.
She anxiously clenched the blanket over her body because of the way everyone looked at her as she yelled with horror.
"WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?!"
All the people in the room seem to freeze as they heard Milenka's words.
Where, she was busy with observing her surroundings.
The room she was in looked luxurious, like the one's she have seen on historical dramas and movies till now.
There was a large mirror on the wall and its edge was decorated with silver and a emblem of a shield in the middle of two swords.
And then she stiffened after seeing her own reflection.
'What the fuck?'
The girl in the mirror had long shiny silver hair and jewel like round blue eyes.
And she even looked younger!
Milenka anxiously touched her face before she suddenly pinched her cheeks hard and everyone in the room jolted in surprise.
"My lady! Please don't hurt yourself!"
A middle aged woman with brown hair spoke as she almost cried again and the man with similar appearance as Milenka frowned.
"What are you doing, Eleanora?"
The man spoke as he tried to touch her hands to pull them away from pinching her cheeks, but Milenka moved away in surprise.
"W-Who are you people?"
"Which hospital is it?"
"Did you perform a plastic surgery on me?"
"Why do I look like this?"
"You people even dyed my hair!"
Milenka kept asking one question after another in horror and the people around her once again gave her a confused look.
"What are you even talking about?"
The man with silver hair asked again in a cold voice and she became lost in thoughts again.
"Then perhaps I am wearing a VR glass?"
Milenka spoke as she touched her eyes, but surprisingly there were no glasses.
"Which movie theater is it?"
"Your VR glasses are really realistic…"
"Or is it VR eye contact lens?"
Milenka spoke as she forced a smile on her face.
Perhaps her father had declined to work with them thus they kidnapped her?
"How about this… If you let me go, I will ask my father to work with you and even sign a contract with your company!"
Milenka offered and the middle aged woman, who was dressed up like nanny from the fantasy movies started to cry.
A few younger maids consoled her and the familiar looking man glared at the person behind him, who seemed like a doctor.
"What is wrong with her?"
"Didn't you say that she was okay?"
"Why is she talking nonsense and I can't even understand a single thing she is speaking!"
The man with silver hair coldly spoke as he grabbed the collar of the doctor and Milenka finally recalled the most important thing.
"Where is Cathain?!"
Milenka uttered and the nanny who was crying none stop paused on sobbing, the silver haired man stopped shaking the doctor for an answer and the hurt looking knight's freeze.
For a moment, Milenka thought that the time has stopped but then she realized it has not.
The silver haired man looked at her with disbelief as the doctor fall down on his butt in shock.
"El-Eleanora?"
The man uttered that same name again and Milenka didn't notice it this time.
She was getting anxious as no one was telling her about him.
"ANSWER ME! WHERE DID YOU ALL KEPT HIM?!"
Milenka stood on her bed as she approached the silver haired man, who looked like the most powerful here.
She anxiously caught his sleeves with her tiny hands as she looks into his identical blue eyes like hers.
"WHERE IS CATHAIN?! THE BOY BESIDE ME! YOU SAVED HIM TOO, RIGHT?"
"WHERE IS HE NOW? PLEASE TAKE ME TO HIM!"
Her blue eyes filled with tears as she spoke.
She remembered how he comforted her even when they faced their deaths.
If she is alive then she should be alive too…
The man in front of her didn't move an inch as he blankly stared at her.
His brain seem like stopped working and he couldn't even process her words.
She fell into the lake because she was scared by that boy's sudden presence and thus she fall on the cold water.
Thank God that he reached in time to save her and took back her home.
But now she is asking about the person who harmed her?
Asking if he had saved that boy or not?
"Eleanora La Alexander Dalton… has you played enough?"
Duke Alexander De Xavier Dalton spoke coldly as he grabbed his daughter's shoulder and her expression changed into fear.
"If you have… then stop behaving like this and act normally!"
Alexander particularly shouted as he felt afraid after seeing her like this.
But his action made her feel even more afraid as she struggled free from his grip and she looked at him angrily with tearful eyes at the same time.
This shocked Alexander as his daughter has never looked at him like this.
"HOW DARE YOU TO YELL AT ME?! MY PAPA WON'T SPARE YOU AND MAKE YOUR COMPANY GO BANKRUPT!!"
Milenka yelled as she jumped down from the bed and ran out from her room.
All the people in the room looked at her tiny figure with a dumbfounded expression before Alexander came out from his shock.
"WHAT ARE YOU ALL LOOKING AT?!"
"STOP THE PRINCESS!!!"
Alexander's cold voice made other's come out from their dazes too.
"Y-Yes, Your grace… Catch the Princess everyone!!!"
He watched the head maid Maria to disappear as they all ran after the running princess and sat on her bed with one hand on his head.
'Just what is happening?'
…
The whole duchy fall into chaos in an instant as they continued to chase after the running Milenka, but she slips away every time.
"Stop running, Princess!!"
"My lady!!!"
"You might get hurt!!"
"At least wear your shoes!!"
But Milenka paid no attention to them as she kept running in the completely unfamiliar place.
As she passed by a big library and a office room, an odd feeling rose in her heart but she didn't had time to focus on those feelings.
"Cathain, You bastard! Where are you?!"
"Don't scare me and come out!!"
"Cathain!!!"
Milenka grew even more anxious as she couldn't find Cathain.
This whole place looked strange to her.
The decorations were beautiful and luxurious, but she still wanted to get put from here.
"Princess! You can't call his highness by his name!!"
Maria anxiously spoke as she ran after her lady, who not only called the crown prince of this empire by his name; but also cursed him.
She will be punished if this leaks out!
"CATHAIN, YOU DICKHEAD!!!"
Milenka yelled out more loudly as she had a tendency to do the things she wasn't allowed to do.
"Please, don't do this my lady!!!"
The maids grew afraid as they really couldn't keep up with her speed, who is almost a trained knight.
But still it took her nearly five minutes to reach the stairs from her room and seeing the long staircase, she just decided to sit on the railing as she slid down.
"Oh my god! Princess!!"
Seeing this scene, Maria almost lost her consciousness because of shock and the younger maids hurriedly caught her.
"HE IS MY BOYFRIEND! WHO WILL CALL HIM BY HIS NAME IF NOT ME?!"
She yelled at the maids mockingly as she carefully slid down from the stairs and the view of the maids continued to disappear from her eyes.
'Finally I have got rid of them!'
As Milenka thought that she has successfully avoided the maids, she was suddenly lifted up from the railings by a strong arm and became shocked.
Alexander had no expression on his face as he looked at his daughter, whose personality drastically changed in only a few hours.
And Milenka gulped in fear as both of them just kept staring at each other with no words.
"Say it again… who is he to you?"