In a gloomy office with a dim light, someone was in the dark looking through the window.
A knock was heard and he replied with a displease yet calm tone as if he wanted to control his anger.
"Enter"
The door opened and he turned to the direction of the door with a stern look to the person that just opened the door.
"Why is my niece still alive?" said Garyl sternly but yet sill calm voice.
"Sir, I don't know why my guys didn't do the work well" the man said with a trembling voice as he tried to explain.
"Who knows then…" he removed his sword slowly moving toward the man, the man shivered as he retreat backward
"Your highness , wait, wait… we can do the work better" his voice was trembling
"And how!" He lifted his voice as he threw the flower pot that was on his table " We can't do any for now, she's just from coming back and it will be suspicious if we try another attempt now" he continued
Garyl placed himself four steps from the guy.
"I want the both of them dead! Logane and Ace! Especially Ace, he is taking his role of futur king too seriously, my crown!"
"Plus, he is intelligent . I can even say he's the only person in that family that's not stupid. It will be difficult to eliminate him easily. That was the reason I wanted to start with the easiest , Logane" he added
"So, what should we do now?" Asked the man.
"Firstly, where are the two guys that didn't do their work correctly?" He asked
"They are outside , waiting." He replied
"Tell them to enter" he said his voice getting calmer.
He called them and they entered .
"We apologies, Sir. We…"
Garyl lifted his hand indicating them to stop talking. He tapped gently on his table.
"I want your hands here , on this table" he said with a devilish smirked
The two guys looked at each other without understanding any things. They turned to their boss, he indicate with his heard to obeyed .
They placed their hands without knowing what will happened to them.
It is when, Garyl lifted his sword that they realized what will happened to them. He cut their two fingers each, with such precision.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" they screamed
"It was just a small lesson to tell you that next time, if you guys don't realize a good job. I will kill you" he said, he touched his sword with his index and then lick the blood on his sword with an insane smiled and face.
Their boss looked the scene that was horrified. Looking his men shouting in pain.
"Secondly" he said "we will do nothing for now, I want them to forget all before doing something" he added
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Their heart skipped when each of them heard the voice coming from behind them. Amber-ruby eyes widened when she heard the person asking.
Amber-ruby wanted to faint, she thought it was done for her that someone have discovered her secret. 'I will be killed tonight' that was what was going in her head.
They both turned robotically in a slow motion . To see an Eva standing there waiting for an explication to what she heard.
"Eva…" Amber-ruby forces the smiled
"What where you both talking about?" She approached near them.
"What did you hear exactly?" Ace asked
"You said someone is an imposter and an identity theft. I want to know who is the person and if the person is here we have to inform the royal court". Said Eva with concern.
"Well, effectively we have an imposter in this castle" said Ace calmly.
Amber-ruby looked at Ace, she tried her best to not show that she was worried when Ace confirmed it.
'What's is he doing?'
"We suspect with Logane" he point at Amber-ruby " that there's a traitor in this castle and the person is close to the royal family" he continued.
Amber-ruby was relieved.
"Exactly" confirmEd Amber-ruby
"It's the reason while you guys looked tense?" Evariste said
"Yes, as you see it is a delicate situation" Ace replied.
"I see it but still I think we should inform the royal court" Eva insisted
"It's still suspicions, we have to confirm it first. I count on you lady Evariste to be discrete on it" Ace said
Evariste touched the left hand of Ace, both Ace and Amber-ruby directed their gazed to the hand been touched.
"You know you can always count on me Ace" she said softly, her eyes becoming soft too.
Amber-ruby rolled her eyes.