Iridescent 1314

Chapter 5

 They continued the journey. All the maid and Marquis moved to the duke's carriage.

"Cramp? How is this cramped?" Marquis commented, "You also alone here."

"But we are still lucky, My Lord Kvasir, if this one before is not cramped, we won't eat the delicious cake." Selma exclaimed.

The Duke hazel eyes lighted upon hearing cake. Even though he is harsh and rude, sweet and good food are the way to his heart. As the sayings, you fill the stomach, you fill the heart.

"True! Should we make that for the princess later in the Dukedom?" Agnes said cheerfully.

"Oh, let her taste Grizsha's pudding and roast chicken." Rosetta agreeing Agnes.

"Oh... Grizsha's roasted chicken is indeed splendid. But that cake was exquisite. It will be hard to make. No mandarin produced in Callavan you know." Marquis added.

"Ahem..." Iowyrthe coughed.

"Ah, there's this sulky Dukey." Marquis joked playfully.

"Jude... You know I cannot."

"Cannot what? Can't eat the cake? Of course, we already eat that all."

The maids were giggling. In the dukedom this two people are very close to each other. The bromance is known in the whole Callavan and in the Troika, the Marquis state, as they often visit the area together.

"Not that, it is her!"

"You just don't want to try that's all."

"I try..."

"No, you were rude, harsh, indifferent to her, that's not trying."

"She's not what I looking for."

"Maybe just not yet. Look at her, pale even though her skin shade is a little dark. Can't you see her eyes when it is lighted up, and the moon beam reflecting on the hair. You just don't want to see her beauty, do you?"

"I must agree with the Marquis. I apologize if I am rude, Your Grace. Her smile is splendid. However, I can also see the sorrow."

As Selma spoke, the handsome duke's hazel eyes turned to her. She is weak and now wounded, she must not be the one that he is looking for, Iris the Healer. Same name but is the total opposite. The Healer will be strong. This weak lady laying to the window side of his carriage won't be a healer. She will only be a burden. Though he must agree her hair were reflecting the moon beam in an amazing way. He doesn't see the black opal eyes yet, but he sure that it will be as beautiful as the rare gem. But she is not my type as well, he thinks to himself.

Actually, he doesn't want to meet the Healer for protection. He just wants to thank her as he knows now, it was not Eugenie that saved him that day. Only one person in this world who can absorb such a powerful potion is only the Healer. Also, Princess Iris is not there that day.

That day is the day that change him. He knew for sure that some of the elder opposed him to inherit the duchy in such young age. Iowyrthe was only 17 years old when he must inherit the duchy. Even though he has learned enough to lead the duchy he deemed to be too young to lead. That's when they decided to put poison on his drink. The noir.

The poison is as dark as the name. One drop can kill you instantly. However, he was saved that day. Eugenie was said to take the poison as she took the glass from his hands. She fainted. She was thought to drink the poison but immune to it.

He believed it. He always feels guilty. Lady Eugenie also always seduce him and trying to get close to him. She also was the one who help him chase out the ladies who was engaged to him. But deep in his heart he knew something was off.

Not until, they found out that the Noir was always makes the victim bones, eyes, and hair's black.

Eugenie has a beautiful blonde hair. Iowyrthe has always kept this as a secret. He used Eugenie to chase out the ladies and thinking if he didn't find the Healer this year, he intended to marry her as he also promised Eugenie to marry her as a payback from what she did in the noir incident. However, as time goes by, he saw that Eugenie is not fit to be duchess with her arrogant and cruel attitude. Not to mention that she always use the incident to force Iowyrthe into marriage even if she was not the one who saved him.

The Princess of Musou was promised to be last engagement forced by the Lleuelyn Royals. Empress Georgina said that if this Princess broke off the engagement as well, she will let Iowyrthe do whatever he wanted to do, even if it is marrying the young Countess.