Chapter 222 - 222

"Oh, and before I forget, since you dropped Noel in a funeral home, what's the address?"

Lady Melissa asked, as Justin requested for a sheet of paper and some ink, and wrote down the address of the funeral home that Noel was currently in or at least his dead body.

"Alright, now are there any more questions you want to ask me?"

Lady Melissa asked as Justin stayed silent the entire time, not knowing how to respond after Lady Melissa's answers to his questions, it was almost as if he didn't have any more questions to ask her anymore after her answers.

Justin's mind had gone blank as he quickly replied to Lady Melissa- not wanting to get scolded by her or worse.

"I don't think I have any more questions for you, Lady Melissa, regarding the whole bodyguard's situation but I have a question regarding the shifts, is it alright for me to ask you about it?"

Justin politely asked as Lady Melissa slowly nodded her head, signalling to him that she was alright with it.

"Will they be the same for every day or will it switch every week, month and so on?"

Justin curiously asked as Lady Melissa paused for a few seconds before she soon answered his question.

"Well, to answer your question, in case anyone takes a break for a day, the shift will be changed, the shifts will be longer since one of the bodyguards won't be present to do his or her shift."

Lady Melissa said as she paused before explaining to Justin, soon continuing her explanation after she took a few breaths of air.

"However, if we're talking about this under normal situations, then you'll be having the same shifts every day, week, month, year and so on and on. Does this answer your question?"

Lady Melissa asked Justin as he nodded his head, understanding what she meant.

"Alright, now, if you don't have any more questions to ask me, Justin, then you can go and leave my room for the meantime, oh and take the next few hours easier, just protect me from outside my room, besides you're wearing the ring and bracelet, you'll be fine."

Lady Melissa said as Justin bowed his head, excusing himself as he soon left Lady Melissa's room, glancing at Lady Melissa one last time before he exited her room.

Lady Melissa played with her head as she couldn't help but think of Duke Alphonso, whether it was consciously or not, and how he was yesterday, she noticed that even with her, he didn't let his guard down.

Even when she had flirted with him- he had somehow still kept his guard up. How? Lady Melissa wasn't sure, since even she herself would unconsciously let her guard down with Duke Mason.

He had caught her off guard so many times and his attempts at flirting with her, most of the time failing, would usually earn a scoff or laugh from Lady Melissa, and would cause her to let her guard down.

Other times though, Lady Melissa would be flustered by his flirts and she would also let her guard down.

In the past few weeks though Lady Melissa had been doing it less and less, probably due to the past events that she had gone through which led to her putting her guard up 24/7.

However she was soon interrupted from her thoughts when she heard a knock on the door, as she assumed that it was one of her new bodyguards.

"Good Evening Lady Melissa, I am here to do my Knight's vow."

Clara said as Lady Melissa nodded her head, waiting for her to start the Knight's vow.

After hours had passed, all of the bodyguards had ended up doing their Knight's vow in front of Lady Melissa, and none of them even quit.

Lady Melissa already knew that none of them would quit- some of them even had money problems, and they needed the money.

And besides the rest who didn't have money problems? They were unemployed and most of them weren't close with their families.

They may have been raised by them- but they weren't close to their families or they had a bad relationship with their families.

Lady Melissa decided that she'd give each of them their own individual rings and bracelets tomorrow.

She was sure that Justin had already explained it to them but it was already too late for her to call them and give it to them.

Well, she always could since she doubted that any of them was asleep but she decided for once that she'd be a great employer and allow them to get all the sleep they could possibly have, considering that they'd need it for tomorrow.

Lady Melissa couldn't help but think about the Crown Prince- she didn't know exactly why but she had a gut feeling that the assassination attempt yesterday was caused by him.

Little to the public's knowledge was that the Crown Prince had actually tried to assassinate his father before in the past, several times actually.

All of them ended up failing though.

Lady Melissa's eyes widened, was the King's death because of the Crown Prince then? 

She knew that the Crown Prince wanted to be King- it first grew as a want, but slowly and slowly he started to get obsessed with it.

Lady Melissa thought that his want of becoming a King was so he could be a better emperor to the citizens, and to his siblings, but she was proved wrong.

It was first because of that reason, but then he started to want the Crown for himself.

Perhaps the saying 'The Apple doesn't fall far from the tree' was correct, because at this point Lady Melissa could see so many similarities between the Crown Prince and the King.

None of them cared for their citizens- all they cared about was themselves, and only themselves.

Lady Melissa wondered who the new King would be once she killed the Crown Prince, she'd obviously be the queen but who would be the one to be by her side and rule along with her as her King?