I was surprised by the reaction of the old man. Suddenly pulling me by my hand.
"What happened?Your Grace!"
"Fena, Duchess Lilan Vermilion Wants to meet you. Go and greet her, I'm coming in five minutes."
I was confused by the behavior of duke's But for the time being I did as what the old man said and walked away from them.
The two men that left alone were glaring at each other for a while and started talking.
"Your Grace! You don't need to glare at me so much. I was just trying to greet her that's all." The man says with a playful smile.
Duke's takes a step forward to the man and looks him with cold eyes," Marquis Roger Belgati, Do you think I will believe in your words? I am sure that you are well aware of the child's identity and approached her intentionally."
The man was none other than Marquis Belgati and Fena's biological Uncle.
The Marquis still kept his playful smile on his face and continued talking, "Oh My! How can you say like that? I believe it was a normal greeting to the successor of the duke's. I did like to thank the duke since I had some doubts, But now they are all clear."
The duke's understand the meaning of Marquis words and takes a step back While laughing," Ha, ha, ha... I am glad that I cleared some of your doubts otherwise you might be having hard time for another ten years." The duke's says raising one of his eyebrow while looking at Marquis from head to toe.
The playful smile on the Marquis face Fades away and a cold expression is made after hearing the word's of Duke's.
"You Old geezer don't be so arrogant because I will be the one who will have the last laugh. That child will eventually leave you one day. There is no doubt that it could be today or tomorrow too. If I let her know what your son did to her and her mother."
The Duke stands there quietly and looks at Marquis with an uninterested look, But the Marquis continues threatening the duke.
"You don't think I will ever forgive you or your son. Because of you people my little sister and my niece suffered in the past. I will keep resenting you people for my whole life. It's the kindness of the current emperor that I haven't done anything to your family because Your Majesty made me promise."
The man Marquis who was speaking in a very cold tone starts to become emotional remembering the past events.
The Marquis makes a painful expression on his face," Duke you are the person that I used to admire a lot in the past, And I don't care about the fact that you brought the child because of the fire spirit power or out of guilt. Don't shamelessly and openly tries to keep distance between me and my niece. I have the right to approach her and talk with her."
The duke's stays quite for a while and apologize to the Marquis.
The duke's lower his head in front of Marquis, "I'm sorry Marquis, But nothing can change my mind, Nor I can do anything to less your grieve."
The Marquis stares at duke for a while and then let a sigh," Yeah! You do that because this is what you always do and this is how our conversation ends with you apologizing."
The Marquis leaves the duke behind and joins his family.
As I followed the order of Duke's. I approached the duchess who was standing on the balcony of the Palace.
I saw her from behind, But she gave the vibes of a very pretty and elegant lady.
As I reached the balcony. Suddenly the duchess turned and started hugging me tightly without giving me the space to breath.
"You're So cute! So adorable! It's just as my husband said that you're so adorable. I'm in love with you at first sight. My arms and hands were itching to hug you and to touch you from the moment I saw you approaching me."
I didn't understand anything about the duchess doting behavior, But she totally was doting on me and I can't help but had lifeless eyes at that moment. I tapped the duchess lightly to give her signal to let me go.
" I am having a hard time in breathing, Your Grace! Can you please let me go?"
After hearing that duchess gets awkward and let go of Fena," Oh My! I'm so sorry. I was so excited and didn't notice. You are just so adorable, And I can't help it."
Fena looks at duchess with an amazed look.
"What happened? Why are you so quiet?"
Fena backs off and starts roaming around here to there while replying to duchess," No, It's just the duchess is exaggerating. If I were to say, "Duchess is the one who is beautiful and elegant."
Indeed, it was true the duchess with the appearance of Dark blue hair and red eyes looked so beautiful. After looking at the duchess eyes I remembered Lucas. They resemble a lot.
"Being adored this much for the first time and so suddenly by someone I never talked before made me shy, And I don't know how to respond to it." Fena said while awkwardly laughing and putting her hands behind her head.
Duchess looks at fena for a while and starts crying out loud suddenly.
"How could not anyone can adore such an adorable kid? Are people here blind? Can't they see your cuteness? Ah! My heart hurts every time I think about it."
The duchess grabs both hands of Fena and starts shaking her," Don't worry I am going to adore you a lot from now on and on the behalf of all the empire."
I was shocked by the duchess behavior. She looked so elegant, But her personality was somewhat strange. I couldn't free myself from her, And she kept weeping, babbling on and on.
You see my name is Lilan and I thought if I ever had a daughter I would name her lily but that day never came. I only got two sons and both are no good at understanding the heart of their mother.
I laughed awkwardly while trying to free myself from duchess, " I see! I see! It must be heart breaking."
As I was still busy trying to free my hands from duchess hands. My right hand was grabbed by someone else tightly and the next moment all I knew was my hands were free from duchess hands.
"Mom! Can you please stop this. Dad is calling for you. He is leaving for home because Leon came up with a high fever and asking for you. I was searching for you all over the banquet Hall. Please leave for the time being, I'm here staying behind in dad place."
Okay! I'm leaving for now, My poor Leon baby. It's a pleasure to meet you. Hope we will meet again my adorable baby."
The duchess left the hall. 'When duchess said my adorable baby why she made such an expression on her face as if she is been waiting for so long.'
Lucas and I was left behind by the duchess while staying silent. In a while Dion came and we left together.
Dion I'm bored and I want to leave the hall. Can't you do something about it?
"My lady if you are that bored why not visit the garden? There are fresh strawberries too."
I said in an excited voice, " Really there are strawberries then let's go there."
"Are you that happy to hear about strawberries, My Lady!"
"Yup! I love strawberries."
We reached the garden and collected alot of strawberries.
"Are you both collecting strawberries?"
The girl asked in a cute and polite tone, I didn't need to raise my head because I could tell that this sweet voice was sena's.
"I also want some. I saw you two leaving the hall when I was trying to approach you. You both started to leave that's why I ended up following you both."
Fena smiles at the innocent sena and reach out her hand to sena to give her the strawberries, " It's fine you can have them as many as you want. There are a lot of strawberries."
Sena smiled brightly and accepted the strawberries from Fena's hand and request Dion to show her the way to hall, Since she wasn't good with directions.
"My lady! I need to leave and inform the duke too. Would you mind waiting here for me?
"Don't worry you can take your time while I will enjoy eating strawberries."
Dion and sena left the garden....
'He sure is a kid. Look how happy he is looking making friends with pretty girl.'
While I was busy eating strawberries. I heard someone's footsteps from behind.
" Who are you? What are you doing here? To have the guts to sit here and eat strawberries." boy asked in an arrogant tone.
I turned my head to see who it was and before I could say anything.
The boy said in a playful tone, " Heh! Aren't you the trashy kid of blanchester family. I guess no matter how much you doll up a trash, It would still look a trash."
I glared at the boy and replied, " Isn't it the little crown prince of this empire?"
"Are you that much of an illiterate girl? Where are your greetings? Poor you, Beg me, I will give a thought to teaching you reading and writing, So that you won't ashame the grand duke name."
Suddenly the crown prince takes a step back and moves to the other side.
'What's with this person how can he be so full of himself I kinda started to feel pissed with his attitude'
'Hmm! Why did he took a step back? Oh! I see that's how is it. He is scared of bugs.'
Fena stays in her place and continues enjoy eating strawberries while replying to the crown prince, "Oh! I don't need to learn or write from your highness. Since I don't want to ashame the grand duke name. It will be shameful to learn from a scaredy cat like you Who is scared of bugs."