Chapter 89 - Scheming Woman

On the other side… 

"So, you are called Miss Giselle?" Princess Beatrice said as she had her suspicious hazel eyes narrowed on Giselle. "My brother has been talking a lot about you lately." 

Giselle was acting as the temporary caretaker of the two kids. Well, it was young prince only as the princess would seldomly allow her to see her. It would be right to day that Princess Giselle was not happy with a certain beautiful woman who was currently standing in front of her. For some reason, she found Giselle an eyesore. 

"It's my honor to know that His Highness has been talking about me," Giselle replied with a monotonous smile. She had yet to overcome the trauma she felt whenever was in the proximity of these twins.

However, she must add that the twin boy was easier to talk to than the little girl. This girl loved to make things difficult for her. Sometimes she wondered if the girl had reserved this special treatment only for her or it was for everyone in the palace. 

Beatrice didn't give any reaction to Giselle. She just sat on the edge of her bed, twirling her ginger curl in her chubby index finger while staring intensely at the older woman. Her innocent gaze was fierce and sharp as if she was trying to see behind the latter's facade. 

For some reason, it seemed that this fierce gaze didn't belong to a little kid. 

The time trickled like water and nobody chose to break the silence. Giselle could feel another panic attack on the way but she was praying to God not to let it happen in front of the young girl. 

Her guilt didn't let her sleep at night. And now she was finding it hard to face it. 

After what seems like an eternity, the young girl spoke, breaking the uncomfortable silence, "What do you want? Before you start pretending confused and innocent, let me remind you that it will not work on me. I have seen a fair share of scheming women in my life. I may be a kid but I can see things that you adults can't." Without bothering to give Giselle a chance to defend herself, she continued, "Tell me, Miss Giselle, what do you want? What's your intention for coming close to my brother? I'm afraid my brother has a soft spot in his heart and you are surely going to take advantage of it." 

To say Giselle was shocked after hearing the words of the little girl would be an utter understatement. Never had she ever imagined that a girl so young in age could have such thoughts going inside her head. 

The more she looks at her, the more she realizes how much she takes after her. Her straightforward attitude, her fierceness, her impulsiveness, her little scheming mind...each and everything is inherited from her. 

Giselle had no right to call herself Beatrice's mother because a mother never abandoned her infants with their father for never to look back. 

She hated herself so much for that but fate had never left her any options. From the beginning, it had taken everything from her. When she was young, she was sold to human traffickers, and later, she was saved by Santiago in an incident when she was running for her life. 

She still remembered that year very clearly. She was twenty at that time, uneducated, poor, and had no means to survive. She wasn't the only woman they had saved, there were plenty of them just like her.

But when they were freed, they had nowhere to go. She along with many other women found herself alone in this big world. They had nothing but their bodies to survive in this big world. So, they made a deal with Santiago. They would do what they had been doing for years to survive for a fixed amount of time and in return, he would provide them education and make them capable so they would be able to leave this world for once and all the next time. 

When Persephone called her a Ghomah or whore, she wasn't fazed because she knew that was her identity. She was indeed a whore who had sold her body for money. However, who doesn't have a whore inside of them? It takes a particular moment to come out. And that moment in her life was...poverty, helplessness, and loneliness. 

What Persephone didn't know was what poverty feels like. What it feels like to be alone in this cruel world with no help or whatsoever!

Perhaps, she (Percy) might have chosen to pick rags rather than sell her body, but Giselle, who had seen a share of luxuries for a limited period, knew that she didn't want to live that kind of life where she didn't know if she would have food on her plates next day or not. And neither did she want the twins to see that kind of life. 

She was not proud of her life but at least, she was alive and it was the biggest and only battle she had ever fought and was winning. 

Everything suddenly changed for her when she arrived on Santiago's island and caught the eye of the young King of the Maisean empire. He found her intriguing, a toy that was very different from the previous one. And she couldn't be any more happy. 

But you see, Fate has different plans for both of them. No, they didn't fall in love like cliches. She just got pregnant. With his Kids. At once. Especially when he was married to another woman. And it just doesn't end here. That woman was on her deathbed. 

Now Giselle had two options: First, be the bad woman who seduced the king and gave birth to bastards or leave the kids with their father and never come back to their life. 

And yeah, she chose the second option. Her children were said to be birthed by the late queen, who died two days after the birth of the twins, and King Leonard. 

They were given the title of Prince and princess of the country. 

They had a big family to love and adore them. 

They had the best education and warmth of home. 

What else could she want for when her kids were living the best kind of life? 

No one would taunt them for being the children of a whore. 

No one would call them bastards. 

"Miss Giselle, my dad says I have a tendency to send people into a coma after I open my mouth, which works faster than any machine gun. And at that moment, I thought that he was just being himself...dramatic like usual. But it seems he was quite right. Did something like that happen to you too?" Beatrice said while rolling her eyes. She wanted to know what this beautiful woman was thinking in such seriousness. 

Wait a moment, did she just call this old woman beautiful? If she did, she was taking her words back. And allow her to add that beautiful women were an eyesore to her. 

Instead of getting offended by Beatrice's words, Giselle actually smiled. Yeah, a big genuine smile tugged on her lips. King Leonardo wasn't wrong. Beatrice was no less than a machine gun. She could kill the enemy just with her words. 

"Princess Beatrice, I know a very similar person who speaks whatever comes to her mind without caring for consequences. However, every time she opens her mouth, she lands herself in trouble," Giselle said in a very respectful tone. She was talking about Persephone. "Allow me to say that we must not let our thoughts be known by the other party especially when you are plotting against them." 

"Are you saying that I am plotting against you?" Hazel eyes bore into another pair of hazel eyes. 

"I am not worthy to be plotted against by you," Giselle's reply was direct and clear. 

Princess Beatrice harrumphed while turning her face. "I just don't like you even though I have no reason for such action. Truly, I think you don't deserve my dislike as it means that I actually care for you. And this perplexity of the situation is annoying me further." 

Giselle was amused now. The girl didn't want to care for her yet she disliked her when in turn was infuriating her. Could she be any cuter? 

"What are you staring at?" Princess Beatrice said as she found Giselle weirdly staring at her. "You won't understand how tough my life is. Do you think getting rid of Lady Sabrina was easy? She was sticking to my papa like a lice sucking on my blood. And now I don't have the energy to deal with you." 

"I wouldn't dare to think that your life is easy," Giselle replied, quite amused. 

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