Chapter 561
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*Knock, knock* — I heard a hand call to my door. — "Lady Pristina. His Highness, Crown Prince Zeleskiaz has come to attend your summon."
Vitor’s voice resounded through the door while Paige and I finished the last touch-ups of my outfit. Making me quickly rise from my seat with anticipation, almost replying with my sound without realising it if not for the shake of Paige’s head reminding me to be careful for the ears that could hear outside.
"My lady..!... I will open the door." — Paige whispered as I stopped my impulse. Replying with similar caution; whispering while we returned to each other the smile of expectations.
"Thank you. A little more and I could have exposed myself."
"I doubt he came with someone else, yet it is best to act careful, my lady. This is your own request, you need to be more careful..." — Lastly, she said softly.
It was such a simple truth she told that made me sorry as I nodded. Having my mind elsewhere had always been a weakness at least in the life I lived in another world... and as my body became more comfortable with the current times, the more easy it became for myself to experience an accidental slip of my tongue... literally, which was the problem itself.
’I need to focus when someone I haven’t trusted with this information is around... I cannot let it be learned solely because of a careless impulse. Luckily it will be only Zeleskiaz and I today... of course with our chaperons as well yet they are already aware...’
I moved a little to the centre of my chambers so I could welcome the crown prince more elegantly while thinking about the seriousness of this. And as soon as Paige opened the doors, his frame became visible making my thoughts halt, and bowing lightly to her who opened the doors for him, the crown prince looked at me with a gentlemanly stance, proper and kind. Tall, clean and admirable...
"... Good Morning, my lady." — He said, stepping into my chambers. — "I have come to meet you as agreed."