Chapter 20: Who Is Leaving? (2)
Madeline’s heart was already hanging at her throat as she stood beside Cassian. Different scenes on how bad this meeting could get flooded her mind and she hesitated, shuddering slightly in fear and giving her plans with Cassian a second thought.
But every uncomfortable feeling vanished in a split second when she felt Cas’s warm hand holding hers, his fingers intertwining with hers as if to reassure her she had nothing to worry about.
She looked at him with surprise, but his eyes were fixed on Amadeus who halted at the entrance of the main door. She saw the guilt in his Amber-brown eyes, like he was silently blaming himself for getting Amadeus into this mess, but the guilty look disappeared when they started going down the stairs together.
All eyes were now fixed on the two couples, and Madeline drew in a deep breath as she remembered their plan. All she had to do was pretend to be in love with him. That’s it.
The three brother’s who finally got a chance to see what Cassian’s wife looked like, had expected a ragged ugly looking lady to show up in front of them. They barely visited the other quarters of Carmarthen, so they don’t have much idea on what the people there are like, and only pictured them due to how they were addressed.
She was wearing an off-shoulder yellow appliques gown that altered the color of her milky white skin. Her midnight black hair was neatly packed and styled on her head, exposing her beguiling shoulders to the eyes of everyone present. She looked slender and attractively graceful.
If they wanted to be honest with themselves, she doesn’t look like someone from those downgraded quarters at all.
"Brother hasn’t lost his sight for good things after losing his sanity." Inna commented, looking impressed by her brother’s choice for a wife, but she wasn’t sure the same would go for everyone else.
"Uhm, good_"
"Hold on." Cassian silenced Madeline who was about to greet his family, and she looked at him.
"What happened?"