Chapter 129: sage tea

"It was a lovely party, duchess, I am impressed," said Charles as his both wife stood on his both sides, no matter how I looked at this scene it always felt weird to me.

"I am grateful that you enjoyed the party, your majesty." I bowed and so as Killian, Cassius was called by Ian, and as hosts, we decided to give farewells to our guests.

"It was a wonderful evening, Mari, but we were not able to talk properly, hope you still remember your promise to go shopping with me." said my mother hugging me and I nodded.

"Of course mother, tomorrow is Sunday, so Killian will be free, we can spend the whole day together" I replied and she hugged me again. 

"Your highness, I apologise for the misunderstanding and foolishness of my wife, as an apology, I wanted to give you this special tea of our tea garden," said Marquees Wiltshire.

"At least you know your wife, marquess,'' I said, taking a sigh as Kate took the gift. His face turned red yet he still bowed and smiled when left.

Soon other guests left too, baroness Veronica just nodded and left with the other baroness. I can understand about Veronica being haughty, but I wonder why the other one was so arrogant.

I closed my eyes and took a sigh when I heard footsteps again.

"Killian, would you go with Ian, for a minute, I want to talk to your mother," said Cassius and my eyes narrowed.

"I don't think we have anything to discuss in private,'' I added but Ian had already held Killian's hand, the boy looked reluctantly at me so I nodded, as I did not want him to be dragged in the mess.

"What was Leanne Towner doing here?" he asked with the coldest voice I had ever heard. For a moment even the Killian from my past life felt pale in front of him, I could see his eyes turning completely red. What had just happened? That wasn't something I was expecting.

"She is part of the nobles,'' I replied, getting my voice back, which I had lost for a second looking at his behaviour when he punched the wall behind me. 

"Don't you know that she could not enter our palace, she is banished by most of the nobles." he pointed and I furrowed my brows. The memory was years old so it was a bit hazy and I did not remember anything special related to her name so I shook my head.

"No, no one told me so, is it because of her son, that ran away?'' I was intrigued and his eyes snapped back at me, which he had closed when I shook my head.

"No one, I repeat no one take his name in this palace, and never again would you come in contact with that family or else, I would not be responsible for the result, but you would be," he said with poison filed voice, his eyes were telling me he could even kill someone at this moment.

"Are you threatening me now, Cassius,'' I asked, dropping all the formalities.

"I am just telling you the truth, Marianne." he said and then his eyes followed my neck and get closed again, "that family had done the crime, Marianne, a crime I have no proof of, but I will find one and make sure that they would be beheaded. For now, it is enough for you to know, so stay away with them, because when fire burns, it burn everything around it, it did not recognize friend and foe." he added and I furrowed my brows, I tried to remember a lot but nothing like that had happened in my last life or had it happened when I was already dead.

I was lost in my thoughts when I heard footsteps and he was already gone. Should I tell him he would not be successful in whatever he was planning. My eyes felt on the crack on the wood where he had punched and a red mark of blood and sighed, it had nothing to do with me. Yet when I closed my eyes I could still see his bloody eyes in front of me.

I walked back to my chamber and settled on the sofa, it was a tiring day, but I had gained a lot, good publicity for my jewels, and taught a good lesson to that mother-daughter pair, but that was not enough, if she got pregnant, things would go down, I was sure they would find a way to get rid of me then.

But something was not right., in the past, I had lived many more years. But Isabella was never pregnant or was she taking medicines, this was something I was not expecting, but if I caught them red-handed it would help me in taking divorce.

"Your highness," 

I opened my eyes to see Penny serving tea and I gave a grateful smile to her, I really needed one right now.

"Ah, this is the sage tea that marquees Wiltshire gifted me just now, right," I remembered the taste of tea very well, in the past whenever Isabella made small mistakes her father always gave me this tea.

It was a special sage tea that grew only in their estate, this was the only thing that I liked about their family. The tea did wonder as all the tiredness I was feeling, left my body slowly, and soon I felt light-headed. I closed my eyes and sat there in the classes for a while when I heard voices.

"Mother, are you okay?" asked Killian, his face was filled with anxiety

"Ah, yes, why?" I asked tilting my head if something happened, looking at my statement his brows furrowed further.

"Father was looking angry when he came to meet you," he added and I furrowed my brows.

"Oh, is that so.." why didn't I remember something like that.

"Mother, I think you are tired, you should sleep," he said with a small smile and I nodded and walked to my bed and closed my eyes. Soon darkness took me in her arms gently.

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