Chapter 288

Call Lady Melissa petty or anything, but she wasn't going to let anyone other than her be the one who took Lady Camilia's life, even though it would benefit her, her ego just wouldn't even allow her to do such a thing.

Lady Melissa had wondered whether perhaps the Crown Prince was connected with this entire thing and whether he knew about what Lady Camilia had done to her, after all, he just had to know right?

Then why did he seem so innocent? Was this because of her past feelings that she couldn't just deem him guilty of committing such a crime against her? Or was he actually not involved in this entire thing?

Whatever it was, Lady Melissa was going to get to the bottom of it- preferably before she took Lady Camilia's face off of the face of the earth, though it wasn't going to hurt her if she found out about the information after Lady Camilia had disappeared.

Lady Melissa was going to wipe off the Crown Prince's face off of the earth as well, though she needed to be much more cautious regarding his death compared to Lady Camilia's, after all, he was the Crown Prince, whilst Lady Camilia was simply a royal's fiance.

Even though Lady Camilia was the fiance of a royal- or more specifically, the Crown Prince, she wasn't treated like a royal family member- at least not yet, though that was to be expected since they were merely fiances.

They were simply engaged, and that could simply be broken at any minute- or second, if the Crown Prince wanted to, after all, Lady Camilia was merely a noble compared to the Crown Prince- who was a member of the royal family.

A noble was supposed to listen to orders from above- in which this case was the Crown Prince or any of the other royal family members who had that much power on their hands and who could use it to their advantage at any second they wanted to.

Lady Melissa knew that Lady Camilia's origins were gonna be revealed- she decided that she'd give Lady Camilia a bit more time, to build up her reputation and that Lady Camilia's assassination was going to be exactly a month from today.

Before Lady Melissa had known it- almost a month had passed, in which there were many unsuccessful attempts of her trying to escape the Shayla estate, to which they were to no avail because of how tight the security was.

Lady Melissa had actually found a few ways how to successfully escape the Shayla estate, but she was going to save them for later on since there was a high probability that she would be caught hours after her escape from the Shayla estate, and that the security would be tighter than ever.

Lady Melissa just needed to wait four days until she was going to be free from this grounding punishment from her parents- and that was going to be the very same day that she was going to take Lady Camilia's life.

Lady Melissa had learnt much more about the bodyguards that her father had sent (mostly because she had asked her personal bodyguards to do background searches on them, and found out about their families, backgrounds, and even income).

Lady Melissa had even learnt that all of the bodyguards that her father had assigned to her had individually made a Knight's vow to her father, meaning that trying to get them to spill information would be useless.

Besides, Lady Melissa wasn't that heartless of a person….or was she? She was planning to convince (more like threaten the bodyguards from her father into helping her, or else she would kill their family).

Now, Lady Melissa didn't exactly know what the contents of their Knight's vow were to her father, but she knew that whatever it was, she best to keep her eye open and on the lookout, there was no telling what kind of sick promises that her father would force them to make to him.

Lady Melissa knew better than anyone that her father probably had some sort of leverage against the bodyguards that he had sent to her- which was most likely their family, in case they broke their Knight's vow.

In a way, it was eerie how similar Lady Melissa and her father were some would even try to say that they were the same person with how they would act similarly and have similar characteristics and traits between each other.

Lady Melissa was going to be convincing the bodyguards today- and she had already thought of a plan so that they wouldn't be able to escape or dodge her question, though the only problem was that she'd have to do it by pairs since there were only two people from the bodyguards that her father sent her for a certain period of time to guard her.

Lady Melissa had also gotten information from Sophia about the headlines regarding her and Duke Gaston, and just like she had expected- there were rumours about them being in an affair with each other.

Yet at the same time, she was also surprised with the lack of media coverage regarding her and Duke Gaston, after all, she had expected much more news outlets to cover this topic- especially since both of them were influential people.

There was much more gossip regarding Lady Melissa's lack of appearance in society though, and there were many rumours going around, one of them even claiming that she was pregnant- as Lady Melissa first snorted a laugh hearing Sophia tell her that.

Lady Melissa knew that people's imaginations were wild, but she just hadn't appeared in society for almost a month, that didn't mean that she was pregnant- though she found it quite funny, with how unbelievable some of the rumours about her lack of appearance were.

Lady Melissa wondered how in the past she hadn't gotten much gossip when she had practically appeared outside once a month, or once every two months.