Chapter 51: Suicide In The Palace
[Music recommendation: Ocean Eyes by Unsecret String Quartet & Unsecret]
"I sent you off early so why are your eyelids drooping? Hmmn? Did you defy my orders? What time did you sleep?" Lord Ivan took another imposing step forward towards the confused Samantha who instinctively took a step back. He raised a brow questioningly, and Samantha eyed him puzzledly, unable to understand why he was glaring at her with such stoic countenance.
"What did I do this time?"
"You look like a ghost that got kicked out of the underworld for scaring other ghosts." And that was the heartless derision that left Samantha staring with her mouth agape, and she snorted out loud at his perpetual arrogance.
"Hah!" The young woman, presently dressed as a man, could not hide her disbelief, and she internally scowled at the Prince. As if he’s any better - her panda eyes, sleepless nights, they were all connected to him, and yet, he still has the effrontery to mock her? Even if he has that right it was still cruel to misuse it. The early morning aggression hadn’t been dismissed from her system, and she would have retorted sharply if the rest Princes weren’t gazing at the two of them as if waiting to hear her comeback.
To hell with all of them!!
Holding back her sly tongue, she grumbled to herself and quietly walked past Ivan with her head lulled forward. Ivan watched her make her way to Herbert who greeted her good morning with a smile, and he cursed silently when she returned the smile with a small bow.
The journey back to the Palace was anything but exciting for Samantha, and she couldn’t count how many times she dozed off on Herbert’s back. She had slept so little and woken up early that her eyelids found it difficult to stay open during the ride.
Ivan, who kept stealing glances behind him to check and make sure his little lamb hadn’t slept off and falling off the horse, tsked with a tinge of annoyance when he found her resting her head on Herbert’s back.