I frowned at what he said, it was more like shock than confusion. Why would there be a marriage between me and the Grand Duke?
"There is this time when I went to His Majesty's office, I overheard a conversation, he said that they received a marriage proposal from the House of Dewei stating that they want the second Princess to be the next Grand Duchess of the House Dewie" he said, he maybe saw my confused and doubtful look to him.
I rest my chin into my right hand, and I closed my eyes, things are not going as the story it is. It never mentioned in the book that there is a marriage proposal to Madeleine as there is no chapter that has a romance involvement. If Lyle were telling the truth, then what is the reason Anwyl asked for Madeleine's marriage?
Does something already happened, while I am not possessing Madeleine's body?
"What do you think the reason?" If it is because of a power or position, then he should not be asking for me, instead of Laura since her reputation and title is more secure than mine.
"I don't know either, the first and last time you encounter each other were last year's foundation day, however, you said that you have never meet him." The foundation day? Since it was never brought up in the book and I am not the real Madeleine I said that I would never meet him.
But if I already met him on the foundation day last year then I need to recall what happened that time, the only answer lies in that memory.
"Forget it," I said. I do not need to make an unnecessary expressions and actions since Lyle have known for too long Madeleine and I am sure if I act out of her character he will suspect and I do not want him to die, I need him.
He is the only person who I can use and dispose of anytime, since he is more than willing to give his life away to Madeleine, that is more than what I need than those useless worthless leeches.
After a long hour, we finally reached the gate of the Luxemburg Manor, and I can see how big it is since you can see it from the entrance that is far away to the House.
Lyle went down and talked to the guards and after a minute he went back inside "My Lady, it seems that His Grace was waiting for you" I nodded at him.
As the carriage takes the path towards the Manor, I can feel my heartbeat fast and loud, my hands trembling, and I can feel some chills running down into my spines as we are nearing the main entrance.
I do not know why I am nervous and when the carriage stops, I have this heavy feeling lingering inside of me, that is why I hesitate to accept Lyle's hand when he offered it and guided me to step down into the carriage.
When I stepped out, I saw a line of servants bowing their heads "Greetings, Your Highness!" They all welcomed me and for the first time, I felt something in my heart lifted. I saw in the end an old man standing with an old woman clinging into his arms.
They seem too old however, their looks never faded, even though they both have wrinkles in their face, the flawlessness of their skin can still see, the burgundy hair of the old man were too beautiful, like mine, the dark violet hair of the old woman were too similar as to what my mother had. The beautiful deep like sunset orange eyes of the old man were the same as mine and my mother.
Their features were saying that they are indeed the parents of the late Empress, The Archduke Albrecht Felix and The Archduchess Maria Antonia of The House of Luxemburg.
They gave a smile, a very bright warm smile and I just stood there as I saw that. I felt a heaviness in my heart making my heart become hard, my hands were still trembling, and I could feel my eyes trembling too. My eyesight became blurry as I saw them running towards me and embracing me.
They are both embracing me, and I can feel the warmth of their arms as they encircle, their arms around me and we are carefully tapping my back.
I did not know why I was feeling like this, a feeling of longing and happiness.
Is this what Madeleine left feelings? Is she waiting for the time when she can finally leave that Palace? A loneliness and helplessness that she felt while waiting for someone to come and rescue her in that prison like Palace of her.
I was crying my heart out until I felt satisfied.
"Are you finally alright?" The soft voice of a woman welcomed my ear, "Yes," I answered, and she is brushing my hair while my head were resting on her shoulder.
Albrecht, The Archduke cleared his throat, that is why I went back into my composure "I think that this isn't any reunion right?" He said, "You have an explanation on why a Princess like you were using the carriage of a Marquis, and him being with you alone." His voice was strict unlike his wife's.
"There's something that I want to avoid happening" I need to use the God, because in this world he is alive. I cannot just go and say that I am not Madeleine and I want to conquer the throne. I am sure they will think that I am possessed by a devil or be called a witch and instead of dying of guillotine I will die burning on the stake.
He frowned and Lyle who is sitting in front of me. "What do you mean by that?"
"I have a dream. A dream happened not long ago..." all their eyes were staring at me waiting for what I will say next "In the dream, I died or more like I was executed in guillotine because of the attempted murder of Laura" I saw how my grandmother gasped and my grandfather who went silent for a long minute.
"Isn't that just a dream?" Lyle said, breaking the silence, and I frowned at him. He was not the person I expected to say that "I dreamt it multiple times and when I went to the Temple, I saw it again, it was like a theater play, playing in front of me." I firmly stated.
How dare this man doubt my words. I thought he was on my side.
"It is an oracle." My Grandmother said
"What do you want to do now? I am sure Dashiel is looking for you now" The Archduke called the emperor by his name; I am right there a tension between them.
I look at him with a determination in my eyes "I want them to pay for what they have done into my life. I want them to be locked up in that cold place while being tortured. Instead of my head being cut off in guillotine, I want them to experience it. The cold metal that slashed my neck and as I saw how their lips turned into smile..."
The truth is, I am still having the nightmare of the day that I died. I play over and over every day in my sleep. The feeling was too real for it to be a dream, the people were screaming while I was being chopped off, I heard it clearly.
My body shivers whenever I wake up in the middle of the night because of that and I do not want that to happen. I have enough of it in my dream and to be true, it frightened me.
"It keeps repeating in my mind every night... My life inside of that prison was cold and painful... I do not want to experience it..." I forced myself to cry to look pitiful.
My Grandmother pulled me and embraced me "of course we will not let that happen, after losing your mother it is hell for us and we won't afford to lose you too" she said however I did not feel anything after hearing that.
If I did not come here, Madeleine would die according to the book. It is me who took a step to save myself and they said that they were afraid of losing their granddaughter? Then why didn't they help her in the first place? Why didn't they come to her even once? They never showed up in the story.
Even Madeleine was accused of the murder, they never even showed their faces on the prison until the day she died they never showed, so why are they saying that?
I refrained from showing my anger towards them and I stopped crying and looked again into the Archduke "Will you help me, Your Grace?" I asked
He left out a sigh "You can call me Grandfather, of course I will do all of I can just to make you the rightful owner of the crown and throne." I cannot help but smile.
My first step in my plan is to be successful. If I keep my plan straight, sooner I will meet my sister whole she is enjoying her luxurious and happy life.
I will come to them like their own nightmare. Without any notice I will take everything and make it mine.
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