Lucas Pov
I am Lucas Vermilion and a royalty who shares the royal blood since my father and the current emperor are brothers moreover, My grandpa was the former emperor.
My father is the younger brother of the current emperor. Before the current emperor both brothers served the former emperor. When the time came to decide who will be crowned next my father gave up and backed off. Like that my uncle became the next emperor.
My father gave up the position to his elder brother because he admired him and wanted him to be the next one. He has chosen to serve his older brother for the rest of his life. Till now, I never get why my dad choose such a weak person? Who never raised his sword at someone? Who only speaks kind words and keep fooling around?
Whenever I asked the reason for choosing the current emperor to my dad. He always said one thing that you will understand one day. He never tried to say openly the reason. So I started to keep my distance from the royal family.
I always made excuses to avoid visiting the royal Palace, But my grandpa always dragged me intentionally to the royal Palace and on purposely teams me up with Max. Like that Max and I became rivals. I started to have fun in training time.
But one day that too came to end. When Max and I were busy in our match. Knights around us that we used to admire start getting jealous of us. They started taunting us," Look they are at it again! Trying to show off their skills and powers."
We no longer were recognized by our skills but only by our name. It was easy to guess for other nobles that we already had everything in this world. It's hard to go anywhere, Where people see you and starts making assumptions about you.
At the age of 5, I was lost in the forest during the hunting competition. The hunt was over, And I couldn't find the way back. I still remember how I was scared and crying.
In the midst of this all I met her. The mother of Fena. She was such a beautiful and elegant lady with straight silver hair that resembles of a fox. Blue eyes as deep as ocean. One could tell by the look of her that she was from a Noble house and a well brought up lady.
She approached me and sat beside me and started to pat my head," What happened little wolf? Are you lost? Should I help you?"
I looked at her for a while, And then I looked away because I was too embarrassed to talk to a pretty lady in front of me. To hide the fact that I'm embarrassed, I started act like a brat in front of her. I guess from here I started to act like a jerk whenever I get embarrassed.
"No, I am not crying! I am a man, And I was resting here since I was tired from walking. Lady! Who are you?"
As I finished saying that the next moment all I knew was my ears were grabbed by her," Huh! Lady you say! Not cute, Shouldn't you be calling me pretty lady? I like to hear praises a lot. So praise me you kid."
I was surprised by her behavior at that time. How can be someone this shameless?
"Pretty lady! Don't you feel embarrassed or any shame? When you call yourself like that?"
I asked her, But she stands up and started walking ahead," Little man, If you don't wanna left behind then you better start following me."
I started following her quietly," You said I don't feel shame in calling my own self pretty? What's so bad about it? If I like it then it means I like it, That's all there to it."
"You are very strange miss, What's your name?"
"Hmm! Isn't it rude to ask a lady for her introduction without giving yours? Aren't you a man?"
I was very embarrassed by her words at that time and couldn't say anything back.
"Since you are my bestie son, I will let you go. My name is Rose belgati! Let me tell you I have a very cute daughter, Who is three years old. I will introduce you to her next time, When we meet, For Now we have reached to our destination. Look there knights of your dad are standing."
After that I met her many times at our estate. We used to spent a lot of time together. She taught me many things about life. One day I was passing by the garden and saw the two of them my mother and lady rose together with a child, I approached them and greeted them.
When I got closer to the lady Rose. I saw a baby girl with light pink hair and dark green eyes of an emerald. Who was adored so much by the lady rose. At that time I couldn't hear well the conversation between the two since I was busy playing with the little baby girl.
"Hey! Little man! Did you like my daughter? Isn't she too cute? See! We both love strawberries."
As I was looking at the lady Rose the baby sitting beside me suddenly feed me the strawberry. I was amazed at the innocent and cute smile of the little girl At that moment. She looked so adorable with those cheeks all out like a squirrel.
"My daughter only feed strawberry to the people she likes. See! She already started liking you. We both have same taste in men's."
"Lady Rose! Is it okay to say such things to a kid like me."
"Of course it is okay. Will you promise me one thing?"
"Promise! What it is?"
Rose brings her pinky finger closer to the Lucas pink finger and intertwined them.
"In the future, If you ever see my daughter. Please be kind to her, When she needs help, Help her and if she ever was to be on a wrong path, Guide her to the right one. If she is down help her to cheer up, Please protect her in my stead."
At that time I didn't get why Lady Rose was crying while taking the promise from me.
" I promise to do that all you said, But I want Lady Rose to promise me too. Promise me we will meet every day."
"I promise! In the future, It would be nice if it were you that my daughter falls in love with. I really like you."
"What? What are you saying? We are still kids."
"Ha, ha, ha..... You really are cute."
After that day Lady Rose never visited us again Nor did my mom mentioned anything.
In the same year after six months the news came of Lady Rose disappearance with her child. At that time everything became clear to me, Why did the lady Rose made promise to me?.
At that time I requested my parents to search for Lady Rose and her daughter but they refused. I tried my best to convince them but they never agreed and after sometime the news of death of Lady Rose came.
I was devastated at that time. I started to hate everything at that time. I stopped talking to my parents too, Because I liked Lady Rose a lot. I couldn't accept her death. I was worried for the little girl too. So I left estate in search of her.
Two years I spent outside of estate in search of the little girl but I never found her. I got weaker in two years and adapted to malnutrition. My parents forcefully brought me back to estate and never let me leave again.
By the time my heart went cold and I no longer remembered Lady Rose and Her daughter. I thought I gave up on her until the news came of Grand Duke brought an illegitimate child to his estate.
I thought I forgot about them but that wasn't true. I myself didn't notice, When I left everything behind and visited the blanchester Estate.