Then from the information that Ajax told me is that our dear older brother yapped to the Emperor that I was not an ill child and that he knows it to be true since I've been the Duchess I have not caught an illness meaning that we have a spy in RavenCrest household that has been sending updates to my brother Landon. Ajax found him and I interrogated him then killed him. I don't know why he did it but to him he felt that the man was a threat to my well-being so he got rid of them.
Now we are on our way to the capital we have already passed no man's land and we are in Meeks Forest on our way back to the Counts house. A place that I've never thought of see again but I must find out why has the timeline started so soon and does that mean that I have to start my revenge sooner then I thought if so I don't mind it will be fun but just a little messier.
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"Little Flame" I roll my eyes at the endearment.
"Stop calling me that Ajax." I said as I turn to face him.
After a long journey we have made it to the Counts house, well I should say Ajax house now. We arrived late into the night passed dinner time but some of the house staff were still up and also have prepared dinner for us and from the looks of it he has changed all the staff that were under Father.
"Please at least eat something before you go to bed. The staff will bring your bags up to the room, you can also ask your servants to eat with us, you must be exhausted. Please eat." He said in a soft polite voice.
Sol,Lizzy and Sir Brandon look at me like I had all the answers of the universe. I rise my eyebrows at them in confusion.
"What?"
"Well… should we ?" Sol asked as he looked back and forth to me and Ajax not know what to do also at the same time he was handing over his leather backpack to the house staff.
"Should we what?" I asked again.
"Your Gace, his asking if should eat with you and the Count." Lizzy whispers in my ear.
"Right!" I said realising what he meant.
Everyone fall silent and all eyes were on me. Never before have I had to tell them where to eat. They alway had dinner with us in the main house with Aunt and Uncle but since we are in the Capital those rules fall away and on top of that this is Ajax house so we can't justdo anything we want,we must follow his rule.
"You will eat with us. Also…" I said as I turn to face Ajax "If the Count doesn't mind I would like Sol,Lizzy and Sir Brandon to join up for dinner every night well we are here. In the main dining room." I said with a cheeky smile.
"Anything for you little flame." He chuckled. My smile instantly dies after hearing him call me that again.
Annoyed, I turn and walk in the house, following the staff to the dining room in the house I see that many things have changed. From the painting on the wall that was Fathers pride and joy, to the furniture that was apparently passed down from generation to generation even the colour of the walls have changed. Gone are the old royal blues and greens that painted the walls that I hated with all of me for each colour had it's own trauma, gone are the ugly brown chairs and tables with the purple pillow hydrangea flowers that filled the house.
The scent of the house has also changed before it used to smell like wet damp hydrangeas but now is a lit smell of rose essence. The only thing that is still the same is the black and white chess floor. Everything else is red and black and the painting on the walls are all either wide open fields of forest in the morning light or in the night time with the vast starry sky shining and in others are deserts with mountains of sands all around and they all look so breathtaking with even brighter stars shining.
As we enter the dinning room one of the first things we all saw at the far left of the wall which was the head of the table was a large Portrait of me as a little girl my eyes shining violet, blue, green and red in the picture I was about 7 years old and I look detach.
'Is that how I look like before?' I thought to myself as I took a step to look closer.
"Hey is that your mother?" Sol said behind me. I turn to look where he was looking and there she was at the other end of the room to the right the other end of the table facing my portrait one end of the room and on the other her. My mother she…
"Yes, that is our mother. Unfortunately I didn't paint that portrait the last Count Commissioned it from RavenCrest weeks before they got married that is why she looks more normal in this picture." Ajax said with his hand behind his back as he looks on admiring the portraits.
"I do wish I had the skill to Capture such emotions and a persons eyes but alas even my talents limited. Come let us eat." He said as the staff walk in with the trays of food we will took our seats as the staff serves us our meals.
"So does that mean you are the one who painted the portrait of her Gace?" Lizzy asks in a small voice. I didn't think he heard her but then he answers her.
"Yes, and all the other portrait in the house."
We all stopped eating and look at him in shock.
"You have got to stop that. Every time someone tell you something you all don't know about you end up doing that jaw dropped shocked face thing that you all do together." He said as he laughed as he kept eating his food.
"I didn't know you painted." I whispered.
"Don't worry little flame you weren't supposed to know that I painted or knew anything about me really. I did it on purpose to keep my distance away from all of you and to make sure that Father and brother didn't know what I held most precious to so don't worry about it."