Chapter 124: lost her innocence

"You must be busy looking after your empire and its queen, your majesty," I replied and he shook his head and moved towards his target point, this man was poking me more and more these days.

I walked towards the seats and talked with other nobles of lower-level whom I was not able to give time before. then I went to the powder room, my maids came forward to follow but I shook my head.

"Stay here, and take care of the guest" I will just come in a minute anyway.

I took my time in there, but once when I turned to go out, the door was blocked by Isabella as she stood in front of me.

"Oh, my, why have you not seated out there lady isabella, is it because no one is trying to win for you?'' I asked in a worried tone, but we both knew the truth.

"Do you think you have won, just because Killian has started to call you mother? Cassius would never accept you as his wife, he loved my sister and you had stopped being like her, there were still chances in the past but now, he would not even stay in the same room with you. 

He even gave testament in my favour, in the court, you are nothing but a laughing stock." oh so, she was even leaving her pretentious.

I smiled, and looked back at the ground from the window, everyone had already taken their position and even shot an arrow or two, "can you see there Isabella, both Cassius and Killian are there, trying their best, to compete so that they could win my love.'' I announced in a proud tone. 

"But is there anyone who even cares whether you are here or not? Have Cassius even come to you once or written a letter to you, have he even asked how you have been these days. Tch.. you are putting all your stake on the wrong man, whether I am loved or not, I am his wife, the co-owner of this empire where you are standing... While you are just a maiden who is going to die like that, if not moved on." I said with a smirk, my haughtiness could be seen even by those who could not even hear our conversations.

Her face tightened and her fists clenched, turning white in the process.

"I may be a maiden, but you are wrong that Cassius had not asked me, he wrote me letters, your highness, not one but many," she replied, controlling her anger.

"Oh, so you are his hidden lover now, I wonder are you maiden anymore or not as you are claiming to be," I asked with a chuckle, she was surprised that I did not mind that he was having an affair with my husband.

"So what if I am not a maiden anymore, at least I gave my innocence to the one I love, what about you, are you going to spend your whole life getting proud of winning some cheap black pearls, which he was trying to win because of the eyes of society, not because he cares enough for you?'' I could see the smirk forming on her face and her eyes filled with hatred turn into a haughty one mimicking my expression from just a while ago.

"I never knew even kept women are so proud of themselves these days, if you are so happy with your position, why not announce it to the world, at least your parents can stop looking for a groom for you.'' I snarled, I knew that our whispers were turning a bit loud. Though we were at a distance, but not enough, that no one would listen to us. I tried to move to the other side but she moved too, still standing in front of me.

"Why! are you going to find a corner, so that you can hide and cry." She commented, her wordings became harsher and my fists clenched. I was just holding my last thread of sanity to not slap this vulgar, I didn't even know if I should add a lady for her.

"I am going to my family and I would advise you to do that too, before I beat you so badly, that no one could recognise you," I stated in a very threatening tone. She could feel it, I saw her body moving but then she stopped to hold her ground and chuckled.

"You did not have that much courage, you were weak and would always remain like that, those who want to slap would not think so much, but just slap," she added coming forward, her words were full with mockery.

"Since that is what you want, then I would definitely fulfil your wish," I added as I moved towards her, closing the inches we had in between and then I put my high heels over her feet.

Her eyes widened as a cry left her mouth and soon her mother and other nobles came towards us with hasty footsteps.

"Oh my, what happened to you Isabella." her mother cried, "your highness, I was the one who asked her to come and apologise to you for the misunderstandings of that day, if you wanted to punish someone punish me, why did you slap my daughter," she asked as tears came out of her eyes.

I raised a brow, so that was the reason she was provoking me, thank goodness I had noticed at the last moment. When I moved towards her just a minute ago, I was actually going to slap her but then I saw that she was shaking yet presenting her cheek to me, as if waiting for me to hurt her, that was the reason I used my heels to do so, to see the reason behind it.

And look at that it did not even take a minute for her mother to come running here, that also with a witness. Poor lady! At least, she should have changed the script before starting her drama.