The Abandoned Lady Campbell (Unrequited Love #1)

Prologue

Note from author-nim: Apologies for any grammar and mistakes, English is not my first language but I'm trying to improve my writing every time. ^_^

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I don't know where it all started. All my life, I've been seeking warmth, for someone to finally understand me, and love me for who I am, but I've been waiting up too long for that person to arrive, and it never did. That winter of year 700, the innocent child that was born within my soul had died just like a snapping sound.

"You ruthless child! Go away in here! You're just going to cause things here!" A dark deep voice that made me shiver as it reverberated within the empty hall, moves like endless waves.

With my warm eyes, I have blurred everything that I was supposed to see clearer

"There's no time for crying, you piece of bad luck child!" Again, the voice is deep but it almost hit my skin like a heat making it wounded.

However, what it damaged wasn't my skin but the endless drum that was within my chest.

Everything seems to be slow, my ears can only sense the endless beating from my chest while my sight reminds me of the red-carpeted floor.

I can see some tiny drops of warm water shining as they landed on the carpet and think that I've caused another trash within the household, I raised my hands to serve as bail to capture the water from raining down and it did.

I patiently waited for moments to stop hearing the duke's words and when I did, I knew that I could only hear the fading footsteps from his familiar sounds.

I knew from the start that I should be blamed but I never thought that they will eventually never love me, as I grew up.

Searching my pockets for some thin clothing, I found some and immediately captured the waters that threaten to come down my cheeks once more.

Shaking my head, I put the thin clothing back and headed my way as maids arrived and rushed passed from me to the broken vase.

Right, what did I expect in the first place? I'm just someone who is an attention seeker but never has the capability to be friendly. Because no one wants a friend that had been causing bad luck to others.

I once thought of ending my life, but every time I held sharp objects, my hands and feet would tremble.

Why did they create me in the first place? Only to shout at me? Only to distance themselves from me? I don't know. Perhaps, it's because I'm not supposed to be born in this world but I did anyways.

That day, I never left my room. I only lean my back to my door while I hug myself enough to spend the rest of the night in a slumber way.

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"You think you're beautiful but that doesn't define that you should be treated well if your own parents aren't even treating you right," the children that I'm supposed to play with as their parents came with some business deal with my parents said.

I felt as if there was a lump in my throat and every time I open my mouth, only wordless air comes out so I shake my head and shut my mouth while doing my own thing, playing with the sands in our garden

"Ha! You think that you can ignore us forever but that would be the case," one of the children smashed the castle sand that I am building. The crumbling pieces reverberated within my ears as I see how it all feel to ruin.

I can't help but narrow my eyes as I gaze toward the young lady. She is Count Estemor's only daughter, the one who had this distinguishing red hair. I heard from the other nobles that she had a secret older brother but the Count and Countess didn't seem to entertain such rumors and no one in the Estemor's family have a young boy as an heir.