The faces on Robert's family members had turned ashen. Cedric was being way too disrespectful with them and didn't falter when it came to trumpling with his words. Seselia who was wise enough to understand their mature words chuckled lightly. She loved the way Cedric had always managed to shut off her mother's noisey mouth.

Sienna noticed the wrath on her mother's face. To avoid any heated up agreement, Sienna replied with a polite smile,

" Mother was just being curious, Brother Cedric. Please enjoy your meal."

When Cedric didn't state anymore harsh words, Robert secretly sighed in relief and gave his dearest adopted daughter a proud look. Sienna was always very well behaved and wise among her siblings. It was something Robert preferred the most. Thus he relied on Sienna more than his own biological children. Above all, not everyone could maintain grace and elegancy at the same time.

The dinner table was silence after their conversation. Angelica was so mad that she didn't open her mouth all the time. On the other side, Cedric went silent and didn't open his mouth for a long time.

Thinking about another embarrassing joke, he was going to utter in front of everyone but Ayra's hand found his thigh. She gave it a hard punch and heard a little awe sound from him.

Cedric turned his attention back on Ayra and heard her warning lowly,

" Don't speak anything nonsense! "

Cedric shurgged before noticing at her little mischievous hand that was crawling over his right thigh. With a mischievous smirk, he leant beside her ears and whispered shamelessly,

" If you don't remove your hand from me, I am going to put it somewhere else. Then things can be worsen. I can't literally moan in front of so many outsiders."

Ayra agaped in disbelief before retracting her hand in a shot. Glaring at his smiling face, her cheeks reddened further and a flame started to arouse from her lower body. He was always so cheesy with his words that her thinking became messy.

Looking at her puffed cheeks, Cedric badly wanted to pinche them hard but he held back. His wife was becoming shy.

The rest of their eating time passed away silently. After they were done with eating, Angelica offered hauling up from her spot,

" Cedric, if you give us permission, why don't we take Princess to stall around the castle? She isn't familiar with Balvina after all."

Cedric narrowed suspiciously at her intention. Angelica's smile was so pure and innocent that one couldn't predict her true intentions. Ayra didn't turn down her offer. She stood up after taking a glance of Cedric's cold face,

" Of course, I would love to take a look."

Watching her enthusiasm, Cedric didn't stop them any longer and saw them leaving. Ayra walked out of the dinning hall with Sienna and Angelica. So far, they didn't behave rudely with Ayra.

They passed the long corridors, staff quarter and came at the very end of their palace that leaded inside a garden. Ayra looked at the falls in front of the garden and found them purly eye-catching.

Angelica introduced pointing at the garden with a proud smile,

" This is our family garden, Princess Ayra. We have magical plants planted over there. Would you like to take a look? The weather in that garden is very lovely."

Sienna ushered over excitedly,

" Yes, Princess. We have many mysterious creatures there too. They are fun to play with. You should definitely see them."

Ayra could only smile and agree with them. Since she was already there, she should take a look of them. In this thought, the trio started walking into the garden. After going several steps, Ayra was so enchanted by the rose flowers that she no longer looked back at them and continued her walking.

Looking at her absentminded back, Angelica smiled triumphantly and stopped Sienna's track. Sienna paused knowing her mother's intention and smiled at her meaningfully.

Meanwhile, Cedric was chatting with Seselia in the hallway. Ayra had gone with them to visit the castle which he had no interest on it. But for some unknown reason, his mind started to feel uneasy. After all, he knew that how Angelica and Sienna were.

Looking at the time that they had gone for half an hour, he started to feel worry. He dropped the little chattering Seselia beside and inteneded to have a check on Ayra.

Coming out of the hallway, he walked till servant quarter but saw none of them. His mind became more restless again and he started to pick up his pace. Leaving the main castle behind, he continued walking till the area of garden and saw two guards guarding at the entrance.

His heart thumped in fear as he used his speedy space to pass but one of the guard blocked his path uneasily,

" Your highness! You..you can't enter..Lady Angelica has ordered.."

He couldn't even manage to finish his words as Cedric's heavy blow fell on his cheeks. The guard stumbled before loosing his feet and fell on other side. Looking at the miserable state of his fellow member, the other guard didn't dare to approach Cedric anymore and shrieked at a corner in fear.

Cedric took large strides to step inside the guarden area and located Angelica and Sienna distance away. But there was no sign of Ayra nearby.

He rushed on their side and grabbed on Sienna's arms painfully before growling,

" Where's Ayra? Where did you send her?"

Angelica and Sienna didn't expect Cedric to come here at that moment. Sienna was so afraid that she started stammering on her words. Angelica sweated in fear before trying to make up a perfect reason,

" Well.. Cedric...It was Ayra...She insisted on going inside the garden..we aren't really..."

Angelica didn't get the chance of spouting her lies. A hard slap landed across her face unexpectedly. She gasped falling down painfully and looked up ar Cedric disbelievingly.

Cedric's eyes were full of rage. He spoke exhaling heavy breath between his gritted teeth,

" You actually let her get inside the Mystic Grove? Who are you fooling with? Pray that she is safe inside or else this whole castle will go inside Mystic Grove."

Angelica went insane in humaliation. She looked up at Cedric hatefully and blurted out something which she should have never spoken of,

" Why are you so hypocrite regarding her? If you showed a little pity on your previous wife, she shouldn't have died miserably in the hands of rogues. You are such a sick bastard, Cedric."

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* Cough! Cough* Now don't be mad on me guys. You know all that my book naturally contains a lot of twist and turns. Hehehe!