Chapter 317: Duty Or Love
Lambert was observing everything. Hiding from Jolene, he watched her cry bitterly. He wondered if he is the reason she is crying. But then, a little part of him said, ’Let her cry! She brought it on herself’.
After talking to Talia that day and deciding to ask Jolene out, he went to meet her the next day. But when she said that she only wanted a ’casual relationship’, he didn’t know why he relented. There was something he saw in her eyes and he wanted to know what it is.
As they continued their "relationship" he found out what that ’something’ she saw in her eyes is – Love. But she never accepted it and he made it his goal to make her accept. She made it tough. They never talked and only did ’it’.
And boy was she amazing at it!!
But he felt empty, and wanted more. He talked about it and she said told she had ambitions and she won’t marry him and end up regretting what-could-have-been, later in her life.
She didn’t want him because he is a Prince.
For the first time in his life, he found his title and the duty it entitled, a hindrance to what he wanted.
He talked to his Great grandmother and wanted to change the rules, but he doesn’t have much hope that it would lead anywhere.
The Royal Family is an institution and the Institution only looks after itself as a whole and not panders to any individual, even if they are family. Only those who come in line with the rules will prosper within the institution. And there won’t be place for those who want to break it. What happened with Princess Lillian is a case in point.
He had a choice to make. Either he should convince Jolene to give up on her dreams and follow him, or he should give up his Privileges as a Royal, and his Military Roles to follow her and be a private citizen.
But he was not sure...Is their love that deep to warrant such extreme decisions on any of their side?