Chapter 37- Royal Ball
(SAGE P.O.V)
I heard whispering as soon as I walked down the stairs. I looked around and inside the palace was beautiful. It had white roses all throughout the area. The tables were decorated with blue cloth with white roses sitting inside of vases.
"Who is that woman, she's beautiful", I heard someone say.
Nashi escorted me towards our table that had the Dukedom's name written on a little card placed on top of the plates.
"Is this the whore you turned down my invitation for", I heard someone say.
I turned around and saw that bitch Countess Melanie and a couple of other women standing behind her glaring at me. Nashi grabbed my hand, kissed it right in front of her and smiled.
"This is Lady Sage", he said.
Countess Melanie scoffed, "What noble household are you from?", she asked, still glaring at me.
Before I could answer Nashi started to pull me away as he began to walk off.
"Ignore them", he said, while holding my hand.
We walked off and Nashi led me to the dance floor.
"Are you ready to show off your dancing skills?", he said.
As soon as he said that, someone started to play the piano. Nashi grabbed both of my hands, and placed them around his neck, making me look up at him.
He smiled, "Beautiful", he said.
"You're very handsome yourself", I said.
He started to smile even bigger, and spun me around.
"I'm delighted to be dancing with you right now", he said.
I leaned in closer, placing my head onto his chest. I could feel his heart beating really fast.
"Princess Sage", he said softly in my ear.
"Yes Nashi", I said.
"Can I kiss you?"he asked and lifted my head towards him.
I kissed him before he could kiss me and I felt his hand stroke down to my lower back.
After the music stopped, he escorted me back to the table.
"Sit here until I get back, I have to go talk to some of the noblemen", he said.
I nodded my head and looked to see where Rosie was, she was coming off the dance floor with Sylvester.
Suddenly, after Nashi left me by the table I surrounded by multiple women.
"Wow you're pretty", a woman said. She was wearing an off the shoulders pink ball gown with diamonds throughout the dress.
"Thank you", I said and greeted her how Hannah had taught us.
"How did you end up being Duke Nashi's partner?", another woman asked rudely, she was wearing an olive color ball gown.
I smiled, "He's asked me to be his partner", I said politely.
I wondered how Rosie was holding up after a couple women swarmed around her as well.
Hopefully, she can keep her composure.
(ROSEMARY P.O.V)
When Sylvester left to go talk to some of his acquaintances, I was surrounded by a couple of women. They were staring at me waiting for me to introduce myself. I greeted them how Hannah taught us, and only one of them seemed friendly.
"How did you get to know Sylvester?", A woman wearing a dark red dress asked.
Seriously, these bitches was already annoying me.
"He invited me as his partner, isn't it obvious", I said, fuck being polite, I thought to myself.
Sage might be more on the matured side, but I'm not.
The woman scoffed, "Such low class", she mumbled.
I felt my vein popping out the side of my head and I could picture myself slamming her against a table. But I digressed.
She stood there folding her arms, and I noticed that Countess bitch walking towards my sister.
"Excuse me ladies", I said, and gestured the way Hannah taught me.
I hurried towards the direction where Sage was, but was interrupted by a loud trumpets sound.
"Now presenting Princess Kalia Vanuatu, and Prince Morgan Vanuatu", I heard someone shout.
I looked in their direction and saw a man who looked exactly like our father but with short low cut hair.
"That's one of our targets", I mumbled to myself.
They walked down the stairs and everyone walked out of their way. I continued to go by Sage.
"Did those bitches give you a hard time?", I asked Sage.
She shook her head.
"The Queen isn't here yet", I whispered to Sage.
"Just focus on getting closer to Prince Morgan", she said.
I nodded my head and turned towards his direction and saw Sylvester and Nashi walking back towards us.
Sylvester grabbed my hand.
"Come I'll introduce you to the Prince and Princess", Sylvester said.
We walked in the direction they were seated.
"Hello, Prince Morgan and Princess Kalia", Sylvester said, while bowing.
I bowed my head as well.
"My, you have a beautiful date next to you", he said.
"Thank you your highness", I said, politely.
"Your highness do you think we can talk later", Sylvester said.
Prince Morgan nodded his head.
I bowed towards the Princess and she looked at me and smiled and thanked me for coming.
She looked like a younger version of Sage with her long brownish hair but had blue eyes.
We all turned our heads once we heard the trumpets again.
"Now presenting, King Lincoln Vanuatu and Queen Malaysia Vanuatu", one of the guards shouted.
(SAGE P.O.V)
Nashi walked towards me and grabbed my hand.
"Come, I have to greet the King and Queen, since I'm the next in line for the Dukedom", he said.
I held his hand and he escorted me as we walked over. Once we stood in front of the king and queen, we both bowed our heads to them and I greeted them. I felt the king staring at me.
"What a lovely lady you have here", he said to Nashi.
I was about to lift my head, before I could say anything the Queen started to speak.
"May I borrow this young lady for a bit, I need help, while I go to the powder room", she asked Nashi.
I bowed my head and tilted my dress a little, "it'll be my pleasure your highness", I said.
"Come now, we shall hurry before it's time for the princess to dance", she said.
She started to walk and I followed behind her. We entered a medium sized room that looked like it could be a dressing room.
Soon as the door closed, the queen turned around in my direction.
"Are you Sage or Rosemary?", she asked, in a soft tone.
I was a little taken aback,"I'm Sage", I answered.
She walked closer and placed her hand on the side of my face.
"So you're my granddaughter, that I didn't get to meet because of the king." she said, in a gentle voice. "How's your father?" she asked with a sad expression.
"He's fine, he's walking on his own and getting stronger by the minute.", I said.
She sighed, "I've been so worried about him", she said looking a little relieved.
"I'm going to help my father get his crown back", I said without hesitation.
She looked at me, "If you can help your father, I'll create the path for you", she said.
She turned and walked out of the room, "Come now, we've been gone too long", she said.
After following behind her, we walked back to where the king and Nashi were, I was feeling uncomfortable every time he looked at me.
He was a older man with grayish black hair that was shoulder length, light gold eyes and he was as tall as my father. He had an intimidating aura around him.
"We should head back to our table", Nashi said, he must have felt my uneasiness.
I nodded my head and we started to walk back to the table.
"Princess Rosemary went to look for Prince Morgan", Nashi whispered to me.
"Where did she go?", I asked
"She followed him to the balcony", he said.
(ROSEMARY P.O.V)
After closely watching Prince Morgan movements. I saw him walking toward one of the balconies and decided to follow him. I saw another man walk up to him, and they both went towards the balcony. I followed them discreetly, and hid behind one of the curtains, so I could hear their conversation.
"Any news about Prince Moises whereabouts?", the man asked, he was wearing a gray suit but I couldn't see his face since I was behind them.
"Not yet, I hired a few trackers to find him, but his last location that we found was ramshackled with bullet holes.'', Prince Morgan said.
"We need to find him before the coronation for Prince Marshall takes place in three months, we can't let him become the king", the man said.
"Right now we have a little time, since he's in the hospital with a few broken ribs and a broken leg", Prince Morgan stated.
Damn, that bastard prince only suffered a broken leg, I thought to myself.
"Any news about his daughters?", the man asked.
"I don't know their location, but for now they're safe from the king, after all I made sure Sylvester kept them hidden even from me," Prince Morgan said.
"Sylvester", I mumbled to myself.
"Right now we need to focus on finding my brother, the kingdom is failing and he's the only out of the three of us that could really lead this kingdom. We've been constantly at war with the neighboring kingdom. My father and Prince Marshall aren't fit for war, we need my brother.", Prince Morgan stated.
The man placed his hand onto Prince Morgan shoulder.
"I'll continue to gather some more rebels", he said.
Holy shit, Prince Morgan is planning a rebellion, I thought to myself.
After listening to them, I quickly moved from behind the curtain when I saw them turning around.
"Shit, where am I", I said, noticing I turned the wrong way.
While turning around I walked straight into someone.
"Whoa there", he said, with his hands place on my arms.
I backed up when I heard whose voice it was. When I looked up at him, he had a slight smile on his face. I bowed down, apologizing, hoping he didn't notice me eavesdropping.
"I'm sorry your highness", I said, looking up at Prince Morgan.
He smiled, "Did you hear everything you needed to hear?", he asked.
Shit he did notice me, I thought to myself.
Suddenly I felt a hand on each side of me and looked over both ways.
"Take her to my office", Prince Morgan said.
The guards started pulling towards his office, while Prince Morgan walked behind us. I had no intention to fight back since this actually helped with my plan. Once we entered the office, he excused the guards and gestured for me to sit down.
"What all did you hear?"he asked, walking around the couch back and forth.
"I heard that you're looking for someone", I said.
Prince Morgan walked in front of me and bent down placing his hand on the table between us.
"Who am I looking for?", he asked, looking at me suspiciously.
I stood up and placed my hand on the table as well and looked him directly in the eyes and said, "My father, Prince Moises."