Finally, I decided to break the silence.

“There is good news as well as bad news, which one do you wanna hear first?”

“Ughhh, my condition is already too bad!”

“I don’t think it can get any worse, so I won’t mind listening to the bad news first.”

“Okiee!”

“The thing is, if nothing changes..you will probably be given a death sentence tomorrow.”

“Even if you haven’t stolen anything, you will still end up becoming a scapegoat for the royal family.

Since you belong to high status, you can easily figure out that after such a big incident happened, someone must take the blame to mitigate the damage done to the kings’s image and prestige.”

“The King will never allow the news to spread that her daughter was the one who was responsible for their heirloom being robbed.”

“Elandor, I know that my fate is almost sealed.”

“When a suspect is brought to prison they are interrogated and tortured over a period of time so that they don’t end up committing suicide.

But the way Eve and Evelyn have been treating me, it is clear they don’t care if I live or die…as reading their eyes, I can easily tell that I don’t have much time left.”

“You are quite sharp in knowing the ins and outs of the situation. No wonder, you could handle the guild’s affairs so easily.”

“Okay…good news now.”

“I along with your elder sister Rose, David and Jasmine will help you get out of here. Then, we can slowly help you collect the evidence to prove that you are not guilty.”

“D-David also came?”

“Where is he?”

“I knew he would come to save me. After all, he promised me!”

Saying so, Parul’s eyes again started showing the lustre of a maiden-in-love.

She, who was lying lifeless with so-many injuries suddenly got energised upon hearing David’s name.

I couldn’t help yelling, “Stupid!”

“Too stupid”

Seeing my angry and dejected expression, Parul was taken aback.

“Why am I stupid?”, she asked in her shaky voice which seemed to find a new life.

“The girl who could single-handedly become a strong and mature woman, who not only takes care of guild’s affairs but also takes care of her elder sister just falls in love with a boy she met a couple of times?”

‘I decided it was time to confront her.’

“Don’t you dare deny it! I can already see it.”

“You even tried to make our quest to get herbs more difficult when you realized it was me and Aushima who would do it instead of David.”

“Anybody can tell what you are thinking when you talk so affectionately with David, while with others you still maintain your cool and aloof character.”

“So what if I like David? I think he is quite a capable leader with hardly any shortcomings. Plus, he also came to save me, didn’t he?”

“Who are you to judge how I feel and act?”, she argued back.

“Because your sister asked me to save you!”

“Rose?”

“Yes, she and I are already together and there are some secrets that I can’t disclose right now, but as your brother-in-law, I can tell you David is not what he seems like. Appearances can be deceptive”

“Actually, I wanted to kill you as you are gonna end up increasing the luck of the protagonist anyway, but seeing Rose’s pleading eyes… I decided to make changes to my plan.”

“P-p-protagonist? what’s that?”

“Nothing, I just spoke something you need not know.”

“Your sister wanted you to also become my lover as she wanted the best for you, given how much she loves you!”

“But I am not going to take anyone like that in my harem. I’m not on a mission to catch all these so called good-looking females.”

“It doesn’t matter if you are a beauty capable of causing disasters, if we are not compatible, I’m not gonna accept you.”

“Oh sorry, I forgot the situation and got carried away, these things…later your sister will probably explain better.”

“Now let’s get back to the thing that I was saying! Lemme enlighten you on why your sister asked me to open your eyes.”

“First of all David only wants you because of your beauty and authority in the guild. By conquering you his influence will leap by a great amount and not to mention the free guards and assassins your guild has been training in secret. They all will end up as his personal guards.”

“Secondly, he already sees you as his second wife.

It means your status will always be less than his main wife, which could be either Eve or Jasmine.

Your sister wants you to be with someone who is capable of giving you his love without any discrimination.”

“For example, I may be a scumbag as I already have Aushima and Rose but no matter how many girls I will have in future, I won’t be partial to one and be lovey-dovey to the other.

I am not gonna be a hypocrite who says I will love without discrimination while at the same time declaring someone as first wife, second wife, third wife and so on.”

“Wa-wait Aushima is with you? Didn’t she liked David too?”

“Dont interrupt me, just listen first.”

“Thirdly, you actually do not like him, you are just obsessed with him. What you see in him is something you always aspired to be!”

“All your life you have been working hard, managing various things but deep down in your heart you also wanted to be carefree, lead people to adventures instead of just issuing them, chat happily, be loved by all like your sister. And when you heard of David, who was pursued by three beautiful girls… you couldn’t help but get curious, just like a child who saw a new toy.”

“You, like the other three girls, wanted to monopolize this toy but when you saw that other rivals also had good strength and background, you knew it was hard to take it for yourself you decided to get close to it and tried to snatch it sneakily.”

“But given how easily Jasmine agreed to help you, I could easily guess that you two have already reached a secret agreement.”

“Yes, if you really loved someone how could you so easily enter these so-called alliances to share your love? ..instead, you should have stood your ground without being swayed away by Jasmine.”

“Lastly, the most important reason, call me greedy but I can’t let myself see you spend your old days as David’s second wife.”

“I’m not going to act dense and pretend like David who despite having three girls chasing him for many years couldn’t muster the courage to answer any of their feelings and let the things drag on.”

“I will directly say and take action if I like someone

and yes, I admit it, I may have a slight liking towards you. That’s the reason I’m here in front of you instead of David.”

“Your affection towards David is only based upon the first encounter.”

“You only like him because he had a better first impression than me or any other guy you met before right?”

“Let me tell you the so-called first impressions are just like a tree that takes roots in your hearts.”

“Your heart is already occupied by those roots which keep growing, forcing you to ignore the other things that are present near you.”

“You are so obsessed with David that you have not realised it yet, but you have already started to ignore your Dad and sister’s as well as your guild’s importance in your heart.”

“Rose told me how much you loved her and your father and how you endured so many hardships for them, you even wasted your youth which is a golden period for youngsters under the load of paperwork for the sake of your family.”

“You should have asked me how is everyone in your family? Is my father also facing charges to assist me in my crime? Has my sister, Who is crazy and impulsive not taken some foolish decision to free me from the prison?”

“But no, you were only waiting for me to mention David’s name and ignored all the other things!”

“Do you think the reason David came to save you was that he promised you?….No, he came because I was the one who came up with this idea.

If I had not pushed with this plan you would have been sent to the afterlife tomorrow. He came because he saw this as an opportunity to conquer you, he saw this situation as a matter of profit and gain. If he really loved you, he would not have needed me to come up with this plan, he could had directly used his family’s connections and power to force his way in and take you away but he didn’t do that!”

“Leave it, people like you don’t understand these things, I think I am a fool wasting my time explaining these things to you.”

I gave a deep sigh after speaking so much in one go.