Peace Offering To The Cursed Prince

The Royal ball

Today the gate of the Palace was opened to every lady in Avalo Royal city, noble or not. Originally this should be the first royal ball held in honor of King Sébastien but it has been turned into a wife choosing an event.

Even if the many commoners that were allowed into the Palace knew that the king's uncle will not choose them, they were still happy to be given this opportunity.

Today, lady Catherine was also planning to attend the Royal Ball, she was going to attend in the company of the young man from the Ryon household.

This was the best way to announce her engagement to him. This was necessary because a few lords have been sending their sons over.

Of course, this was not because they loved her, after all, she has already been married once. It was because they wanted the power and wealth of the Thompson household.

"My lady someone is at the gate to see you," a maid walked in just as lady Catherine finish dressing up.

"Who?" Lady Catherine inquire, she was not surprised that someone was looking for her. She concluded that it must be one of the sons of the small lords, they were so persistent in their pursuit.

If she attended the Royal Ball with any of them this time, it will seal her fate with him. "Your husband," the maid's voice was low.

When Lady Catherine heard this she was shocked. She knew that her maid could not start addressing Brighton as her husband.

"What do you mean?" for a moment lady Catherine forgot that prince Julia was still alive.

"prince Julia, my lady" the maid replied, when the guard at the gate first came to report this to her, the maid found it hard to believe.

She asked the guards a couple of times if he saw wrong but the guard was confident of his words hence she came to deliver the message. If the guard was lying he was the one that will be blamed.

"ask the servants to ready the carriage, I am set for the Royal Ball," Lady Catherine replied. She chose to ignore the man at the gate after all meeting him will not do her any good.

"This... My lady... What about the man at the gate?" the maid could not help but remind her.

"What about him?" Lady Catherine narrowed her eyes at the maid. The maid immediately realized that she had said the wrong thing, so she bowed and left the room.

When she got the task to bring these words to lady Catherine she had much imagination about her reaction. She expected her to doubt her words or rush out to check. After all, this maid knew that lady Catherine had loved prince Julia very much but her reaction is something she could not think of.

A few minutes lady Lady Catherine and Brighton stepped out of the house and enter the carriage. If not that this royal ball was important, Lady Catherine would have changed her mind about attending.

When they got to the gate, lady Catherine was surprised to see Julia still waiting there. The reason why she chose to ignore him was that she knew how proud he was.

He would immediately get angry and leave if the guards ignored him like that, unexpectedly he was still standing at the gate, and right in front of her carriage bench the couch man stop.

"Come out Catherine we need to talk," Julia was desperate. Two days ago she had denied him in presence of the king, so Sébastien gave him two choices.

Leave Bozoa or challenge him for the throne. Julia did not like any of these two options, for one he could not win against Sebastian and once he left the kingdom, he or his children can not return. So he asked Sébastien to give him time to think. Sébastien agreed to give him until the day after the royal ball.

When Julia agreed to this he had no plans of picking any of the two choices. As long as he could get back together with Catherine he did not have to pick one. So in the last two days, he tried to find out what has been happening around lady Catherine since he was missing.

He found out her plans, so he decided to come here and win her back with his charm. Previously he planned to shamelessly ride to the royal palace with her.

As long as she allows him to ride with her people will jump to the conclusion that the two of them were still husband and wife, this will put lady Catherine in a difficult position. After all, she could not just jump from the arms of one man to another.

If she did this her reputation that was hanging on a thread after what her father did was exposed will be ruined beyond redemption.

His plan was good but he did not expect lady Catherine to ride with Brighton.

"What do you want? Lady Catherine decided to speak to him now, she was scared that he will cause trouble at the royal ball. So she got out of the carriage and face him.

" What do you mean? I am your husband, " Julia ensures that his voice was loud. He wanted the young man seated inside the carriage to hear these words.

"My husband is dead, I am currently a widow," lady Catherine said. From beginning to end she had no plans of acknowledging the man before her as her husband.

"you... How... Can you stay this? I am your husband, I am not dead. The gods have given me a second chance to live," Julia felt helpless.

"Do I look like a fool to you? My husband is Dead, even if you look a lot like him, I will still be able to tell the small difference between the two of you, not to talk of the fact that you have just one hand and my husband has both," as Catherine said this her voice was firm but deep inside she was hurting.

She loved this man before her, she had done everything to support him, yet he lied to her and treated her as a tool to get his hands on the things he wanted.

No matter how what she will not allow herself to be fooled again.