CHAPTER 11

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The elderly man disappeared among the shelves as the knights followed him in Orion's order to help the man with the books

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The elderly man disappeared among the shelves as the knights followed him in Orion's order to help the man with the books.

After a few minutes of silence, Orion decided to break the ice.

"The list you gave had almost 10 to 15 books, it will take a while, so do you want to walk outside?" Orion asked.

"Sure, but we have to come back to pay right?" I asked.

"The check will be sent back to the mansion." He said as he looked at me weirdly for asking such a question.

"Nevermind, let's go outside." I said.

We walked through the crowd filled with people buying the stuff they needed. Some noble woman passing by gossiping, while a young family enjoying their time outside after a good lunch outside. So many nobles from different aristocratic families, gathered here just because they wanted to or had a specific purpose. No one bothered who was whose enemy or who hated whom. Everyone solemnly enjoyed each other's presence. We shopped around for an hour or two, walking from one shop to another. Laughing around as we walked around various shops.

"Greetings to you, Lord Esmeray, it's been a while." a voice cut through the laughter. Both me and Orion turned around to see a man in a knights uniform.

"Oh Percy! It's been a while indeed." Orion smiled and replied to the man. Once the man noticed me his face turned red. What is up with this reaction!?

"I greet, lady Evanora Esmeray." he bowed and greeted me.

"Please rise." I replied shortly.

"I had been with Percy when he trained under the duchy." Orion explained.

"Oh, I see." I said with a slight smile.

"Why don't you two catch up while I wait for you at that cafe." I said as I pointed at the cafe on the opposite side of the road.

"You sure?" Orion asked doubtfully. I nodded and put on a bright reasoning smile, I have no idea if Evanora ever smiled because Orion looked completely foreign to it.

"Okay then," he said as he walked off with Percy. I held the skirt of my dress so I could move around without tripping. Feeling a few eyes on me as I walked through the busy road filled with people, I sighed.

I read that Evanora was pretty, way too pretty. There are two things that always happen when she/I am around outside people. One, they get bewitched by her beauty. It happens everytime, and hasn't failed till now. And two, get hated. Well, aside from her wine throwing reputation, many people are jealous of her. I mean, who won't be. But I didn't care about either. All I want is to live quietly with a family and not get kille-

"Ah," I gasped as I hit the hard ground. I whined at the hard fall, I opened my eyes to see two ladies on the ground like me. Did I run into them? One of them had long blond hair. Hair which was so clean blond and pretty almost looked like sunshine rays. And the lady behind her has reddish orange hair. Her long red hair fell over her shoulder. In both my life, I had never seen a red head in real life aside from Pinterest.

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