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'It's scary to not know how much people could take away from you just for a day'
It was dawn when I had to hold my breath as I stood there across of the crown prince office with my best friend coercing something immorally.
I didn't know how long I have to watch them, how they shared their kisses, touches as if they long for each other when the crown prince himself, my fiancé has not touched me nor kissed me but my hands.
My knees buckle as I saw her... Siera looked at me with those unfamiliar eyes as she moans shamelessly against the touch of his highness and smiled at me in mockery.
Tears crept down my face as I have run away from a painful scenery and wished nothing but for it to be removed from my mind.
'Why? Why did they betray me?'
'Am I not good enough for the prince?'
'Was Siera always looked down on me even after being supportive all along?'
'Was it all a facade to trick me?'
Question after question run thru my head as I run as fast as I can away from everything that I thought I had.
From that very morning after returning to the manor a news about how the crown prince announce his engagement with the young daughter of the Vesmund family has been annul and will have a traditional wedding with his true love Siera Montréal, and as if adding insult to the injury the emperor seemingly agrees with the annulment due to the heighten praise due to the crown prince choosing true love instead of power.
A lowly baron's daughter against the Archdukes young daughter which is a villainess on their story will be a fight that everyone awaits, like Cinderella with her stepsister.
As if the turn of event was not enough the imperial family shows its cruelty against the Vesmund not only did they cause the death of my brother who was sent to a war weeks ago that has a impossible rate of success, it was afternoon when they send the coffin of my brother who dies due to the said war and that was the line of it all, my father who couldn't bear to lose his successor and a young daughter who was discarded by the prince to a mere lady-in-waiting of hers is too much to bear...
That he has to end his life for it... leaving me with anyone's disposal
It's all so sudden that I couldn't keep up with how it unfolded rapidly, as the news of the death of my father, his sister, my aunt who desires for the Vesmund's wealth and power forcibly take over the manor and right then and there that night, I was stripped off of my title as a rightful heir and was disowned as part of the Vesmund's family.
Everything passed by rapidly that I couldn't shed a tear for my dead brother or for my father, for my sorry state, for how my two beloved persons whom I trust the most betrayed me but I do remember that I weep in silence that after being over thrown I had no choice but to live to a secluded streets.
The shame of seeing other nobles at the main capital is too much to bear so I knew I had to move elsewhere, a dry land where imperial family forgot.
Although time passed by quickly, news indeed has wings learning even in my death's door as I lay just at the dark alley sidewalk where no one spare glances to, I've heard a news about how the kingdom was prosperous and how the crown prince was now crowned as the emperor and is now expecting a heir with Siera, the empress that the emperor adores the most.
The Imperial kingdom was happy, they are happy... A tear runs down my face as it was unfair, it was no fair for them to live in prosperity while I die in vain because of their betrayal!
No! I will not take this... and so I prayed, to Gods, Deity, a saint even a demon will suffice if they could give me another chance! Another chance to live to save my family, my honor and to set things right!
I knew it was my last resolve and will as my body grew weaker every second and pain struck every time; I took a breath as if protesting for me to fight to live. I knew I never prayed to anyone before, but I hope that if anyone could hear my prayers, it's for them to heed and give me opportunity to show those people who trampled on Vesmund the true meaning of being a villainess.
And so, with that Evie Laurel Vesmund had lost her pathetic life.
