Wellesley nodded her head,
I continued my talk and said, "they are so eager to help me because someone from the county had played with the health of their vice leader. She was poisoned, when I went to the Barbarians and helped them, they promised to listen to me and also support me. So now that we have their support, we can pressurize the count. But they have a condition for all this."
But Wellesley wasn't satisfied with my explanation, ans said
"Your Highness, do you even understand what this is I mean, how can you agree to all this?How can they put forth the condition when you helped them, If you had to pressurize the count, you should have told me, I would have done everything. You don't need anyone else's help and they were putting conditions before you in return for your help.I am the one who will finish off the Barbarians. How dare they take advantage of you?"
I could sense Wellesley's anger from his words. But there was something more in her eyes than anger. A madness and when Wellesley was like this, everything around her seemed lifeless, the temperature around her was dropping
completely.
I was trying to understand the reason for her anger. But the Prince did not give me a chance to understand and said, "you see that is the fury one experiences upon knowing that, someone useless had tried to take advantage of the royal family. You are the only person who does not know the importance of the position you are holding?"
Prince was taunting me but I taunted him back saying,
"You are very arrogant, that too for a person who kept her away from yourself for so many years. Because she was a lowly commoner. But today you are happy to see her
getting angry on your behalf, hmmm..You must be thinking what a good follower she is for you?"
Hearing my taunt the prince became silent..
But I wanted someone else to calm down more than prince, so I turned my attention to Wellesley and cupping her cheeks before making her look me in the eye I said,
"Wellesely when did you start getting so angry? You are the one who always calm me down, remember? Last time someone told me. If we kill all, there will be no one left to run the kingdom and now you look at you"
Wellesley's eyes widened with realization after hearing what I said and she bowed her head in the shame and said, "Forgive me. Your highness, I made a mistake. I should have controlled myself."
I just chuckled at her words and making her look at me, I said, "It's okay, on the contrary, I am very happy that you are so angry for me, but we are getting deviated from the path, that is not the issue now. The point is, why did I tell you here out of no where? I called you here today because I had to talk to you about something important and that too regarding the conditions that the clan leader had put forward repeatedly." she sat upright after listening to me. To show that she is listening to me very carefully and asked,
"but your highness didn't your blood boil when they put forth a condition before you and what condition did they put that you had to call me?"
There was a smile on my face that didn't quite reach my eyes. Prince's anger was practically flowing out from the eyes, which I didn't try to hide away and Wellesley was able to see that, I said while maintaining my smile and running my fingers through her hair I said in an emotionless tone, " I was furious Wellesley, I wanted to burn them all. I wanted to kill them all. I wanted to color the desert with their blood, You know they asked me to marry a girl from their clan. Quite simple but I didn't know why was I even furious in the first place, 'Is it because some nameless tribe tried to put forth a condition or was I angry because he was asking for my hand in marriage while I had given myeverything to someone else."
Prince exclaimed in my head, " That was smooth you have a knack for making girls fall for you"
Wellesley's eyes got big and her mouth dropped open. Her expression told me she couldn't believe what was coming out of my mouth, but I kept my expressions absolutely calm, maybe she could see some love for her in my eyes which I had shown knowingly and told her, "Wellesley, I want to marry you. I want to make you mine first. I may or may not become someone else's but I want to be yours. So I ask you. Will you marry me?"