Peace Offering To The Cursed Prince

Lord Zorander lead Lawrence into his study and made sure the door was shut. He even asked Rose to make sure no one stood close to the study in order to earn sure that no one else heard what he was about to tell Lawrence.

"you know I have always wanted you to be in charge of all I have, To me, you are my first son. I also know you do not want anything to do with the Zorander family's wealth but I want you to promise me that you will not leave Bozao but stay and accomplish the task, I, your father will give you, " Lord Zorander asked.

Lawrence was hesitant but he accepted. Rose was already officially engaged to the Yancey and once she was married dare no one would dare call her names there. Besides his wife already missed her childhood friends. He was growing old and it was not good for him to die in a strange land so he agreed to his father's word.

"I promise, father," Lawrence said.

Good, lord Zorander was please by his answer as he pushed a big book to him. The gift I have for you is that book.. It contains all I want you to have. These are things I have achieved on my own and you must see it as my gift," lord Zorander said.

Lawrence nodded his head, his father's words confused him a bit. When you step out of this study, I want you to drop your last name and pick another," lord Zorander said.

But father..? Lawrence was confused by his father's words. Dropping his last name as Zorander was like cutting off all ties with the family. If he has not seen how his father loved him the most as a young lad, he would have thought the old man was disowning him.

Lord Zorander raised his hand to stop Lawrence from complaining. A war may be coming shortly, if you still bear the name Zorander then you will be under Robert and I do not want that. You need to be independent of the Zorander household, to protect your wide, daughter and what is left of your twine sister, " lord Zorander said.

" Father I do not have... Lawrence paused and looked at his father.  "What are you saying?" he asked instead.

Lord Zorander took a deep breath and started telling a story he hoped to have told to the two-party involved. Unfortunately, one of them was no longer in the world.

Sixty years ago.

Little Zack was playing with his friend  Jorah Yancey when he noticed missandel the daughter of a maid walked past a few meters away.

Missandel is a pretty girl and the young master of the noble house of Zorander was smitten by her. He loved her since they were children. "I will marry her when I am of age," Zack whispered to his friend.

"Do not be foolish, your family will never let you marry a commoner like her. You are the head of your family," Jorah replied.

"I do not care, she would be my wife," Zack declared.

"You are just ten, why worry about such a thing, your family will pick your wife. Heirs like us are never given the chance to pick our wives and the future madam of the family," young Jorah spoke like an elder admonishing a young lad.

Jake rolled his eyes at his friend who was speaking like a wise man. " I will choose my wife," Zack said.

Years passed and the young Zack worked very hard, his parents were very proud of him. They noticed that he was closed to Missandel but they never bother about it. When the time came they choose a wife from a family a suitable family but Zach refused to marry her.

He declared that he would marry no one else except Missandel. He said he would rather remain unmarried than marry someone else. His decision surprised the entire household.

They tried to pressure him, but he refused. One day the Zorander family sent Missandel and her mother away. They felt that if Missandel was to disappear then Zack would forget about her in a few months. But this plan also failed as Zack left no stone on turned and searched for her. It took two years to find her and when he did, he went ahead and married her without his family's blessing. 

When lord Zorander his father found out about this, he made plans and kidnapped his son. He then threatened Zack to kill her if he did not marry the woman he had chosen for him. 

Zach had no choice but to obey his father and married the wife chosen for him, only to discover that his father had tricked him. Missandel was poison. 

Luckily, Zack had expected a thing like this so he invited the best physician in the kingdom.  He felt awful seeing the woman he loved in so much pain so he returned to the Zorander household to give his father the peace of his mind, but lord Zorander was not home, so he drowned his sorrow in wine.

When he woke up the next morning he found his new bride sleeping next to him naked. Lord Zorander was so annoyed that he rudely shake her awake.

Then the memory of the previous night played back in his mind. Last night he had thought he was dreaming. Missandel had come to him while he was blaming himself for being too weak to protect her. But she shakes her head in disagreement.

She told him that she was fine and promised not to leave him. He had laid with her in the dream, turns out that it was not a dream but his new wife had gotten into his chamber.

Zack was so angry that he held her by her neck and would have choked her to death if a few servants did not come to her rescue. Zack was so angry that he left the resident to visit his love. He was not stupid enough to have her treated in the Zorander's resident.

But when he got to the small house he had kept her, he was too ashamed to face her after his mistake, so he stay outside and inquire from the physician who told him that she was still alive but her heart was weak.

Zack hurried back to the Zorander's resident and straight to his father's study. He was more annoyed when he saw his father doing his daily activities like he did not just order to poison someone.

"How can you still call yourself an honorable man, when you deceived your own son. You failed your promise," Zach said. He did not bother with speaking politely to him.