Rosie's Games

Chapter 56: The Beast 3

Rosalind jolted up, panic apparent on her face. She looked around and quickly realized she was not inside her room.

Then the headache started. She held her head, massaging her temples as she squeezed her eyes shut. She recalled the last moments before she lost consciousness.

Her conversation with the Duke ended with her flustered and a little upset. In the end, she wasn't able to get the result that she wanted. The man insisted that she was his person. She took the wine and drank it without realizing that her current body was not the body of the past that could handle alcohol.

The Duke immediately told her to rest in his tent. Then he left.

The next thing she knew, a loud growl echoed and before she could even do a single thing, she felt a throbbing pain on her back, then her vision turned dark.

A beast attacked her!

A beast!

Why would a beast, that was known for living in the North, attack her?

"Seems that I was right," a deep voice interrupted her stupor. She lifted her head and stared at the man walking towards her. "You are awake."

"You Who are you?" she frowned.

"I should ask you the same." The man had pink luscious lips, high cheekbones, and long, straight, white hair. She didn't sense the man earlier. "I never thought that a woman would have a room next to the Duke himself."

"Duke Lucas?" she asked. "Where is he?" She got down from the bed, her feet landing on the soft carpeted floor.

When she lifted her gaze, the man was no longer there. She clenched her jaw before she suddenly release a dark mist, directly attacking the man who was now floating behind her.

The man gasped in surprise and the mist took that opportunity to wrap around the man's neck.

"You"

"I was asking you a question." Rosalind slowly got up. She walked towards the window, her black mist was still lifting the man in the air. "And yet you wanted to attack me. How presumptuous." Upon waking up, she realized that her wound had vanished and her body was flowing with energy.

It must be her Blessing.

The Duke knew that she was wounded and that the wound vanished. To safeguard her secret, he took her to this place.

"Ugh Ugh" the man continued to struggle, his feet moving about, his hand wrapped around the mist as if trying to untangle it from his neck.

"For a man to walk inside a lady's bedroom and suddenly try to attack her? I have never seen someone so shameless."

Slowly she turned and looked at the man. Seeing his struggling appearance, her eyes narrowed. The man's pale skin was very noticeable. Someone like this was not common in the Capital.

"Let him go."

Rosalind immediately turned towards the now-open door. Her eyes found the Duke's stern face. She immediately complied, dropping the man to the floor. The man landed with a loud thud and started coughing.

"I am not going to ask you why you are here" the Duke started. "Leave before I kill you myself."

The man continued coughing but he forced himself to stand up and ran out of the room.

"I presume you are already feeling better?" the Duke asked.

"Are you going to reprimand me for doing something like that?"

"It was callous." The Duke said as he neared her. He examined her with his eyes. "You could have killed him, but he deserved it. I would not ask you why you killed someone who suddenly walked into your room without your permission."

She lifted an eyebrow.

"How did you know I didn't lure him in?"

"He wouldn't be in the air, struggling for his life if you did."

Rosalind snickered. "I would really appreciate if it you tell your people not to get too close," she said.

"I will keep that in mind."

"I should leave"

"And go where?" he asked.

"To the Lux Mansion."

"Ah I must have forgotten. I came here to inform you about the Emperor's new order."

"New order?"

"I am ordered to go back to the North."

Rosalind's eyes widened.

"And you are my official bride. Sadly, I won't be here to celebrate the engagement."

"What?"

"They wanted to send me out of this Empire."

"What of me?"

"You will have an official engagement, even your grandfather will be there. The Lux Family cares so much about their reputation, they are not going to send you outside of the Empire without showing everyone that they somehow care."

"But"

"I already sent the bride price."

"You gave them a bride price!???" Rosalind asked. "If you wanted to give someone a bride price you could have given it to me!"

"A bride price is for the Bride's family, my Lady."

"I have no family," Rosalind stated, she lifted her chin as if challenging him to say otherwise. "I believe I deserve the bride price."

"Are you worried that the bride price might be too costly?"

"That"

"It seems that you have forgotten one thing," the Duke smiled. "I am the Duke of the North. As my wife, you are going to have access to my wealth. The bride price that I gave them is nothing but a speck of dust compared to what I have."

Rosalind glared. The man was really arrogant but she couldn't say another word as she knew it might probably be true. The man and his family had been guarding the Northern borders for years!

"Still, I think they do not deserve anything," Rosalind grumbled. In response, the Duke shrugged. "I am going to ask a carriage to send you back to the estate."

He turned and headed to the door.

"How long did I sleep?" she asked just as he was about to leave the room.

"Two days."

Rosalind nodded. She was about to ask him about the beast but he had already closed the door behind him. Not long after, a servant arrived with clothes and pieces of jewelry, then they helped her clean herself. After about an hour, a carriage finally arrived.

Rosalind left the palace without seeing the Duke again.

However, Rosalind didn't mind, she knew that the Duke must have more important things to attend to. Moreover, she was bracing herself for her arrival at the Lux Mansion.