Eagle’s Glory

"Your Highness... Your Highness..."

Amidst the soft calls, Aigron quietly opened his eyes.

He habitually looked up and looked out the window, and found that it was still dark, probably in the early hours of the morning.

With the help of the dim moonlight, Aigron's vision gradually became clear from blurred, and then he saw Teresa sleeping in his arms.

The girl was still asleep with her eyes closed, and the call just now was just her dream. Against the background of the moonlight, her clean and beautiful face seemed to be covered with a layer of fluorescence at this moment, which made people feel pity.

However, her body temperature was not normal, and her forehead was a little hot-since she went through the wind, waves and heavy rain in the sea, Teresa had a bad cold and had been in a fever for two days.

Because of the loss of appetite brought about by the fever, she who was already slender lost a bit of weight, and her expression became a bit more haggard, which made Aegron feel distressed and anxious, for fear that something might happen to Teresa.

But she has always been ill, not to mention a delicate girl like Teresa, so after a few days, her symptoms still show no sign of relief. Aside from using the limited medical resources on the island to try his best to diagnose and treat, Aigron can do not much, and can only pray for Teresa's speedy recovery in his heart.

In addition, he also put down a lot of things that were not in a hurry, took time to accompany Theresa by his side, and slept with each other all the time at night.

Teresa was afraid of infecting him with a cold, so she offered to live in separate rooms with him several times, but Aegron staunchly refused.

He was not afraid of catching a cold, and only wanted to comfort the girl as much as possible. He knew that for Teresa, the comfort and encouragement from him was what he needed most, and nothing else could replace it.

The reason why he treated Teresa like this was not just that he was afraid of not being able to explain to his future father-in-law, but more importantly—he couldn't bear Teresa from the bottom of his heart, and was afraid that she would disappear from his side.

He didn't know if this was the love that the two had for each other, but he was willing to do his best to take care of Teresa and share her pain.

With the help of the moonlight, he kept looking at Teresa, and then hugged even tighter.

This silly girl, who was still calling my name when she had a fever and dreaming... When he thought of this, he was so moved that he was almost speechless.

I don't know what kind of image I am in her dream.

Agron hugged Teresa's slightly hot body and fell back asleep in a daze.

Time passed quietly in this embrace, and in a blink of an eye, the sky cleared up again.

And this time, Teresa woke up first.

Because of the constant fever, her brain was already groggy, and her eyelids felt terribly heavy, but even so, she forced herself to wake up.

As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw the young man hugging her.

As usual, she quietly looked at the boy's face and confirmed the fact that His Highness was always by her side.

She took a few deep breaths, enjoyed the early morning silence between each other, and spoke regretfully.

"Your Highness, it's time to get up."

Under her wakeful call this time, Aigron finally woke up again.

Aegron blinked again, then looked at his fiancée with concern. "Teresa, are you better?"

"It's much better," Teresa replied with a smile, "As long as His Royal Highness wishes me to get better, I'll be fine."

Then, she urged the young man, "Okay, it's getting late, let's get up, there are still many things waiting for us to do."

"Can't you hold me like this for a while?" Aegron didn't let go of his arms, as if he was still nostalgic for the time they spent alone.

"Let's do it for a while..." Teresa gave in immediately, "It really only takes a while, we can't slack off."

This time, both of them were awake, and then faced each other, hugging tightly, and being intimate with each other.

Although they have not yet been married, but quietly, they seem to have become a married couple.

Aegron also knew that Teresa was all for her own good, so his willfulness only lasted for a while, and soon he let go of his embrace, then got out of bed and changed his clothes.

Then he called Chanel over and asked Chanel to help Teresa change clothes.

"Your Highness." When he was about to leave, Teresa suddenly stopped him.

"What's the matter, Teresa?" Agron was a little strange.

"Do you still have time?" Teresa asked.

"If you need it, of course there is." Aegron replied without hesitation, "So what's the matter?"

"I want to do one thing next, let you be a witness, just in a while." Teresa smiled, but this smile was a little more pitiful because of the haggard face.

Then she continued to explain, "I told Chanel before that I wanted to know exactly what our family owned and audited our accounts, and Chanel executed my wishes without a single complaint, and I am grateful for her Cooperate...and, after reviewing the accounts, I am very satisfied with Chanel's work. She is not only enthusiastic, but also selfless. In all the matters she handles, I can't find any problems, I think , she is indeed your most loyal follower."

Teresa is not stingy with words of praise. After all, she also hopes that Chanel can continue to be used by her, so she must praise her face to face, so that Chanel also knows that she values ​​her.

Sure enough, hearing her praise so much, Chanel was both excited and ashamed. "Your Highness, this is what I should do."

"Thank you, Chanel." Aegron immediately thanked Chanel, "Thanks to your help, I saved too much trouble."

"But in other places, it's not so smooth." Teresa changed her words.

"Where is it?" Agron asked.

"At your cousin Charlie's," Teresa hesitated, then whispered. "His accounts are ostensibly flawless, even fairly clean - but, judging by the condition, texture and weight of the gems that Chanel records, he sells them at rock-bottom, even unimaginably low prices. For sale. Undoubtedly, when we sell gems on such a large scale, they are bound to be sold at a discount, but he is very puzzled by giving such a low price, because it can be sold at a higher price.”

Agron immediately understood what Teresa meant.

Since Edmond Dantès was sent to Greece by him, Aigron entrusted his cousin Charlie to do the job of selling jewelry to raise money.

Charlie quickly took over, and then the jewelry was exchanged for money and slowly flowed into the island. Aigron didn't pay much attention, but let Chanel be responsible for auditing the accounts and recording the specific quality and price of the gems sold.

According to what Teresa said, Aigron was very easy to come out. Charlie came to a middleman to make a difference when he sold the gems. He first sold the gems to his own people at the lowest price, and then These people make a profit by selling gems at high prices.

An anger surged in Aegron's heart.

It's my money, it's all my money!

"Really?" he asked, trying to suppress his anger.

"If I wasn't sure, I wouldn't say it rashly, and it would affect your brotherhood." Teresa only felt dizzy for a while, and she finally managed to control her balance, and then she reluctantly Get up and answer. "I've been looking through the accounts for the past two days. I have recorded all the transactions in question. If it wasn't for the fever, I think it would have been faster..."

Although her tone was weak, Chanel was thrilling to hear it next to her, she was annoyed and angry at the same time.

"Your Majesty, I'm sorry... This is my dereliction of duty. I didn't expect... I didn't expect His Royal Highness to do this."

Hmm, why wouldn't he do that?

Agron has calmed down.

To be honest he wasn't surprised.

Historically, his cousin was quite fond of money.

After restoring the empire and becoming emperor, he used various means to make money from railways, real estate, banking and other industries, from a penniless careerist to a fortune of nearly one billion francs, and left behind. There is a legend that "use gold bowls when entertaining guests, and use aluminum bowls for yourself".

It is a pity that fate finally abandoned this lucky man. After the defeat of the Franco-Prussian War, most of the wealth he painstakingly accumulated was confiscated by the government of the Third Republic as state property. Together with his wife and children, he fled into exile in England.

Having said that, this time he took advantage of the opportunity to extract money from himself, which can only be said to be a small test.

However, he is not a person who is purely greedy for money, and is willing to give a lot of rewards to those around him. Money is also a lubricant for him to maintain the group.

I am afraid that behind the scenes he is also using money to cultivate his personal team.

I didn't find this problem. This is not Chanel's negligence. Chanel has been displaced since childhood. How did he know what jewelry? She can't assess the value, so she can only record it according to the accounts provided by His Royal Highness Charles; and Teresa is different. She has been used to seeing prosperity and wealth by her side since she was a child, and she naturally understands the value of jewelry itself. She had been dealing with the dowry for the last time, so she was more sensitive to it and quickly discovered the problem.

Thinking about it, he must be very annoyed, why Teresa came here suddenly... Thinking of this, Aigron suddenly found that he didn't seem so angry, but wanted to laugh a little.

Teresa didn't speak anymore, just looked at Aigron quietly, waiting for his decision.

"My cousin is very young, and it is possible that he can't figure out the value of the jewelry." After a moment of silence, Aegron replied. "Besides, we don't have any real evidence yet that he must have made a fool out of it. Maybe he just messed things up accidentally..."

Teresa looked at Agron with some doubts, not understanding why he said that.

The matter was already so obvious, she knew that His Highness was definitely not such a pedantic person. Since he already knew the situation in his heart, what evidence was not so important?

"Do you think he is a cousin, so you can't bear it?" she asked in a low voice, "Your Highness, if you think so, I can accept it. After all, theoretically, he has also completed his work."

"No, it's not like that, Teresa." Agron shook his head. "For me, there is no difference between a cousin and an ordinary servant, and they all have to act according to my will. It's just—in the initial stage, We can’t be too strict, and if we ask everyone to do things perfectly, Charlie is relatively the best person to carry out the task at the moment.”

Aigron now has a lot of jewelry, but he needs cash to support his business. And for him, the fewer people who know the secret, the better.

Although Charlie made a profit from it, would someone else be able to do it all right? Will it have a bigger appetite than him? Even directly team up to own the jewelry and run away?

Aigron was not sure.

In the face of the huge temptation, the former loyalty may be just empty talk, he doesn't want to test it, because he can't bear the loss.

Relatively speaking, his cousin Charlie, who also belongs to the Bonaparte family and whose interests are highly bound to him, is already one of his most trusted candidates.

It is a fact that he and his brother Louis are both ambitious and selfish, and very uneasy. But at this moment, none of them can abandon anyone. The three young people of the Bonaparte family are all fighting for the family, and the family also needs their concerted efforts.

Therefore, under such consideration, Aegron temporarily suppressed the anger in his heart and decided to maintain the existing arrangement for the time being.

Of course that doesn't mean he doesn't do anything.

"Teresa, it's really nice to have you here." He looked at Teresa, and then said with emotion, "Look, how much loss you have saved for me!"

"His Royal Highness, don't forget that this is our common cause." Teresa smiled weakly, and then replied in a low voice. "I have to care about you, because it's about our family - I'm not like him, he will have another family after all, and he will stray from the edge of this family and become a collateral line; and our business is integrated Yes, we are the backbone of this family..."

"Yeah, it is true, we are together. No one is allowed to seek benefits from us while making profits from us." Aegron nodded, and then he changed his words, "So, you should establish Your majesty is gone."

"What do you mean?" Teresa asked curiously.

"I called Charlie in front of you, and you are responsible for beating him." Aigron replied, "Since the past has happened, I can forgive it, but the mistakes he committed must be severely reprimanded, and the next example will not be the same. I think the best person to reprimand him is you—"

Then, he looked at Teresa inquiringly, "Of course, if you feel embarrassed, I can do it myself."

"It doesn't matter, leave it to me, Your Highness." Teresa understood Aegron's painstaking efforts, so she nodded lightly, "Your Highness, as long as I have your support, I would dare to reprimand any emperor or general... Not to mention him."

Then, Teresa looked at Chanel.

"Chanel, invite His Royal Highness for me." She ordered softly.