The successor : warrior of north

chapter 27

                            DELLA

Great! ... Dad managed to lose all the money ALL THE MONEY ...within two days. My head is spinning. He'll come right back at me with the intention to marry me sooner to Lucian or make me ask for more money from him. This is embarrassing. That one guy helped me with my love life, my parents, and spent the annual expenditure of our family within a month. How am I supposed to rely on him again. I'm pretty sure he's not gonna complain or ask favours in return but this is about my dignity. Dad doesn't know that there's a word 'shame'. I was taking deep breaths to calm down. I heard the door to my room opening slowly. I expected my father but to my surprise it was my sister. She was looking down on the floor not at me. She came inside and closed the door. Mom yelling at dad about money on the floor could be heard in my room. She stood there silent. I was sitting on my bed, " what happened?", that's all I could manage to ask her. She was looking at me with a lethal calmness. She's an exact copy of my father, yelling, greedy, taller than me, and yes illiterate. She was always a person who was good in parties and knew etiquettes better than me. But studies were her weak point. She walked towards me slowly, like a predator. The evil grin which always decorated her face was there. It's not something I'm seeing for the first time so I'm not surprised.
                        "How's your time with Lucian? It must be fun right?", her grin widened. She's happy about something, then it must be about me, bad news. "Yeah good, he's a great person." Her smile faded and face remained calm and said, " You know what , you're not gonna marry him". Like I care, I rolled my eyes at her. I'm not gonna marry him anyways. "You're not even a noble. You adopted bitch ", a hard slap fell on my left cheek. It felt like burning. I stood up. " Ohh, you're angry now? You're some adopted girl so basically we're not related and I gave you the slap back to you. Slaves don't get to touch me". I didn't realise my mother was standing in front of the door. Her eyes gleaming with terror and anxiety. She came inside and yanked Sybil to her side and yelled " who told you?". "I saw the papers of adoption", she replied and I saw relief on mom's face. So there's something more, something Sybil missed in the excitement of finding out that I'm adopted. Now that they're not related to me, I can safely think that Selene and Adonis are my parents. But I need answers. Mom, no Linda Fay my adopted mother pulled Sybil out of my room and as soon as they went out father came in and grabbed my chin, he's drunk and yes not my father but Clement Fairly my adopted father. His eyes are red and reeks of alcohol. "Don't you dare tell that outside this house". I shoved his hand away from me and told him "OUT" in a loud voice, the loudest voice I've ever used in this house. He stormed out of my room and I closed it.
I'm fine, I'm okay, I'm good.........
With that I began to cry. Everything was a lie. I'm sure that Zander knew about this. Wind gusted into my room and papers from my table were flying all over. The big flower tree right outside my window was making noise as if to relax me. I cried for about an hour and wiped my tears. The sting of the slap was gone by then. I stood up from the floor, Only to see Kai sitting on my window. I don't know why but this guy is obsessed with windows. And he only shows up when it's an emergency. He stood in front of the window inside my room, like a stone wall against  the wind. He was in his usual black robe with crimson lines along the sides. It was a long v- cut robe with a fabric to tie on the lower abdomen. His abs can be seen through them and his sword in it's scabbard secured in the long cloth tied on his abdomen. It was already dusk and I know that he's the one I can trust here right now, even though he hit me and made me unconscious. I moved to the corner of my room and lit a candle now there's enough light in the room. He sat on the sides of the window and leaned against it. "You've a message from the King. But I guess no need to tell that again as you've heard it in a worse manner". I nod. His voice was calm and polite. "Tell me about everything I can't expect anymore and get heartbroken. Please Kai". His eyes widened. He stood up from there and walked at an alarming speed, I thought he was gonna hit me again and take me to the dark valley, instead he kneeled and His head down. My mouth was hanging open. "Never beg anyone my queen". By saying that he raised his head and his eyes softened and I told him to stand up and don't make me uncomfortable, but he made me proud of myself and forgot about the pain in an instant. I made him sit on a chair but he was uncomfortable so he opted for window. He started with his information "Your real name is Della Rose Fairly. Selene Yearwood and Adonis Fairly, they're your real parents". I gulped and my breathing became unstable, I'm proud of my parents but they're no more. He continued,"They were killed by some fairly family members in order to attain power. I can't reveal more about it. You're the heir to the mansion. Your other inheritances are all lawfully under your name. The Queen changed the terms and conditions of the inheritance so that you'll be eligible to use the inheritance on your own will , once you're 22. Clement will not tell you this. Tomorrow he'll take you to a lord and sign some contracts infront of them. If you sign it it's your choice, but it is the only thing your real father and mother left for you. Lucian is your first cousin. He's your mother's elder brother's son. Selene and Adonis married against Lucian's father's will. So they stayed far from them. They all forgive each other and Lucian used to visit you in your childhood. Their death was not known by the Yearwood family until they came here to visit them. By that time you were adopted by this family and had a memory loss. They had to leave as you were already adopted and Clement refused to let you go. Once everything is calm the Yearwood family is expecting you for a visit. The King knew about all of these but never got the right evidence to show you, but now he has. We'll see you again tomorrow." I nodded, I was calm and collected by the time he stopped. I gave him a smile of gratitude and said good night, that's when I saw some flowers from the tree, bent together and made in the form of a bouquet sitting on the tree branches. "Did you make that? " My question got him off guard, his eyes widened and he blinked once. I smiled at him once again because he was acting like a kid caught doing something by his mother. " The flowers smell good so I thought I'll keep them with me." I nodded and he went out at lightning speed by jumping to the tree from my window and grabbing the bouquet then disappeared.  It was the lamest reason I've ever heard and most expressions seen in his face. The flowers on the tree are beautiful with five white petals and covering the entire tree like snow, but it doesn't have fragrance. He lied. He must've his reasons.

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