Back To The Castle Of Vallodisan, Isabe halted in her track when she heard the cold, emotionless voice from her back. She didn''t expect him to chase her like a mad cow. She had a feeling like they were ying a cat and mouse y in where the cat was desperate to catch the mouse. Her breathing had turned irregr and by the time, she had turned around to face him, Ss had already taken several steps forward to her standing position.


    His eyes were zing like fire as if he was holding a silent anger for her. He continued without tearing his eyes from her face which had the expression of running away,


    " Fate is inevitable just like our meeting is."


    Isabe blinked at his words confusing. Keeping her eyes down from him, she muttered through her nervousness,


    " I..I.. apologize..Duke Ss..I wasn''t supposed to watch your trails. It wasn''t an ident. I didn''t."


    " Why didn''t youe to y with me when I called you?", came the irreverent response from Ss who wasn''t bothered about her watching his deadly trials. He believed that being the closest sister of Cedric, she had seen much more of it.


    This time, Isabe looked up at him nervously. Few days back, a maid had gone to inform her that Ss was expecting her visit. He wanted to y a round of chess with her but the queen was present right by her side. The queen responded on behalf of her and gave the excuse that Isabe was still not recovered from such tragic incident and she needed to rest as much as possible. But Isabe didn''t disclose this matter to Ss. She was just an outsider and it wasn''t right to create confrontation between a family.


    Isabe gave a stiff smile and replied courteously,


    " My apologise, Duke Ss. I wasn''t feeling well at that time."


    Ss gave out augh angrily. Looking back at her, he questioned raising his brows yfully,


    " Then you mustn''t be feeling well now because you almost flew away just now after finding me."


    Isabe smiled embarrassing. Maybe she was acting too harsh on him without any proper reason. When she was engrossed in her own embarrassement, Ss had closed one step between them. Now standing face to face together, she could feel his green eyes on her zing. His words resonated one by one slowly,


    " I am not very bad person to get along with, Princess Isabe. You just don''t want to try me."


    Isabe pulled her eyes up to look into his eyes questioning. Sometimes his words gave her weird sense of humor but next time, his generous personality corrected her thoughts convincing that he was just being helpful to her because she went through a tragic incident. Isabe opened her mouth again to speak courteously,


    " I am sorry if my behavior offended you, Duke Ss."


    Then another eternity of awkwardness slipped past between them. Ss just kept staring at her without any words and saw through her mind which was panicking. After a while, Isabe opened her mouth to speak slowly,


    " I...I should go back to my room now. The queen will be looking for me."


    She turned around to leave but her forearms was grabbed forcing her to stop in her track. Looking back, she heard him asking with a smile,


    " Didn''t youe to see thenterns in the sky? Let me show you a good view!"


    He didn''t wait for her response and immediately held her closer. In a blink of eye, Isabe gasped feeling her high in the air. Speechless by his sudden action, she kept looking down and saw him safelynding on the highest tower of Vallodisan Castle. This tower had no way toe in except flying.


    When both of themnded down safely, she opened her mouth in rage to question him but she was immediately distracted by the beauty that the sky held. Thousands ofnterns were swimming in the air and created a magical sight of sky which wasn''t often seen by others. Most of them wereing from Basarisk since it was their old tradition to fly the Lantern whilst Richalwolf Land followed different thoughts.


    Isabe couldn''t help but smiling at the scene. Ss came to stop by her side and smiled at her widely. Looking at her pure genuine smile, he found it worthy to wait for her for days just to steal a glimpse of her innocent face.


    Ss suggested offering her a smile,


    " Make a wish!"


    " Huh?", came the confused answer from Isabe who was holding onto the railings.


    Ss exined looking away at thenterns,


    " My grandma used to tell me that our wish gets fullfiled on the day of Lantern Festival. I have wished too many in these past few years. So I thought of asking you to wish now."


    Isabe shed a smile andpelled his words. She closed her eyes and prayed silently until she had spoken everything. Once she reopened her eyes, it was full of emotions. A bitter smile formed on her lips when she looked in distance at the flyingnterns.


    Ss couldn''t help but asking slowly,


    " What did you wish for?"


    Isabe took a deep breath first. Her palms rested together on the railings when she replied to him truthfully,


    " I made a wish for Vincent. I wanted him happy wherever he is now and tell him that I will love him always and..."


    Ss gulped the ufortable feeling after her words. It was painful for him to think that she was thinking about her husband right after standing by his side. It looked like he never held a position in her heart. Ss urged her to finish her words,


    " And what Princess?"


    Isabe continued smiling at herself miserably,


    " And he will be thest and only one in my life in this life time."


    Ss felt a sharp arrow had just stabbed deep into his heart. Without his consciousness, his ws hade out to leave scratch on the railings silently.


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    An extra chapter can be posted within today to mend the missing update from yesterday''s schedule but I can''t promise as Doctor has advised me to less my work for two weeks at least.