Chapter 222: The in-laws
The seaside Castle was rather busy today. They were expecting guests but not just any type of guests. It was the Duke and Duchess of Vesper, the parents of the mistress of the household.
Time had gone by quickly and Abrielle could not believe it was already over two weeks since Cedric got back to the capital. He was barely around these days with tasks piling up since it was the first month of spring and the spring festival was in just days.
Her parents were due to arrive in the capital today, and she was nervous. She hoped Rebecca didn’t sense anything weird about her during this visit.
Cedric was not around and she had a feeling Rebecca was not going to like that in the slightest bit.
A carriage could be seen approaching the seaside castle from a distance through the wide road that went through the fields that were now green thanks to spring. Wild flowers covered the plains and the withered trees were all green and would soon be fruiting although some already had colourful fruits
The air was filled with the fresh scent of blossoms and wet soil, which was soothing, but a particular mother didn’t care about all the beauty of spring due to her grievances towards her son-in-law. She never liked that bastard, and if not for the fact her sweet Abrielle had threatened to end her life, she would never have agreed to the marriage.
She wondered what spell that bastard put her sweet angel under that turned her into a man-obsessed woman. Rebecca shed silent tears remembering how her daughter was in the past. Now, she was known as a vicious woman, and it was all due to Cedric.
She forgot Abrielle turned out the way she is, having something to do with how she and Pierre spoilt their only daughter.
Rebecca’s voice rose in irritation as the carriage continued clattering along the winding road toward the seaside castle. For the hundredth time, she complained to Pierre about Cedric’s latest misdeed. Pierre had no choice but to listen to her; this was the life he chose.
The poor man shed silent tears for the young man who married his daughter knowing she had a degree in nagging higher than her mother. The older they got the worse it was. He reminded himself again this was the woman he had learnt to love. He dared not move his gaze from her for a second before the anger targeted at Cedric turned to him.
"I swear, Pierre if that bloody Cedric had any decency, he’d have sent word by now. He disappeared without a trace, departing Vesper in the dead of night without even informing us. What kind of son-in-law does that?" She huffed, folding her arms.