Chapter 90: The Only One Who Is Suffering
Stepping inside her designated bedroom, Melania could not help but sigh.
The room was not bad per se, on the contrary, it exceeded her expectations –– vast and filled with light despite the gray skies outside its tall and wide windows.
The walls were decorated with fine wallpaper strips and had tiny pink rosebuds carefully painted on them. the furniture was new and clearly crafted by the best and most skilled hands in the entire Kingdom. The carpets on the floor were clean and soft to the touch, walking on them reminded the princess of the feeling she had while walking on the soft summer grass on the cliff near the ocean.
No, the room was not bad. But it was still not the room where she felt like she could belong.
Helping Her Highness with her white coat, Loraline, too, took another look around her chambers before noting,
"This is not bad at all, Your Highness. Look, they even managed to get you the very same wallpaper with the tiny rosebuds on it; it’s the same one you have in your bedroom in Lafad! That was very thoughtful and nice of the Royal Family! Don’t you agree?"
With a pained sigh escaping her peach-colored lips, Melania shut her eyes and shook her head,
"What’s the point of them being nice to me when the only person whose feelings towards me actually matter, does not pay any attention to me?"
Turning around to face her lady-in-waiting, she continued, her voice filled with tension of hidden burden,