Chapter 321: A Visit To Remember
"I’ll meet him and I will be polite with him. I know I represent the Royal Family of Rosendale." Although Talia really didn’t want to be giving this promise, she did as it is what was expected of her.
Talia didn’t understand why the King of Esteria is so hell bent on meeting her. This time, he went through the proper channels and phoned Louis himself for a meeting with Talia. She couldn’t put off the meeting anymore.
She was already planning to visit Esteria to visit Arthur’s father who was going to surgery the next day. She also wanted to do one another important thing - visit Cyrus’ grave. During her previous stay in Esteria, she was surrounded by reporters and she couldn’t visit him. But now she wanted to do it first thing.
She wanted to put Cyrus’ death behind her; this time for good and move on. She would never get over what she did and stop feeling guilty about it, but she did what she did and it was for protecting Cyrus’ son. So she can live with it.
The day after the Ball, there was an exclusive in the Esterian newspapers about a leaked letter The Marquees of Ashwood sent to the King of Esteria. Talia could say it was a pretty smart move as the particular ’excerpts’ from the letter rehashed that the King already verbally approved of the cancellation of engagement between Sophia and Arthur.
People who were already with not good opinions about the Council and the King, caught up on it and were dissing the King and the shameless Clairemont family for still not announcing what was promised.
Of course some people speculated the ’leakage’ of this letter now as a foreshadowing of what to come – another engagement announcement, but this time it would be between Talia Brunton and Arthur. Some assumed it is to protect Talia, who was photographed to be very close with Arthur in the Rosendale Spring Ball.
Some were blaming Arthur for throwing Sophia under the bus for Talia. But most of them were pleased that Arthur and Talia might get together.
A couple days later, along with the announcement for the cancellation of engagement, the Palace released a statement that they had decided to bring certain changes to the way the Council operates.