This Life Will Be My Last

Chapter 3 - The Countess of Jina

The 1st and most timelines where Elisabeth Valois reincarnated into

From a young age? Rossette Toussaint; had always known what she wanted, whether it was money and power or love? she would always find a way to get it- nothing in her pat would stop her from succeeding.

“What do you mean you're getting married!”

“Your highness! You promised that you would marry me!”

Goddammit . . . making me angry like this doesn't help anything , He was meant to be mine.

He Promised!

He promised to help me restore my family name!

Your promised . . .

“Your Highness! Leo! Please! I'm begging you at this point to not marry that women from the eastern region! I've heard they're crazy over there, especially the Nobility!” Rossette proclaimed angrily out of her own frustration, as she kneeled in front of The Crown Prince, as she kept begging him to find a way to stop the marriage ; If this marriage went through. .  she would get more shame than she already has faced from society because of her last name. Rosette, continuing her rambling as she cringed to the bottom of his legs with her hands wrapped around tightly so he couldn't go anywhere, as she looked up at him with tears in those Crystal like Royal-Blue coloured eyes - Hoping to manipulate him in a sense. “YOU KNOW SOCIETY WILL TALK IF YOU THROW ME AWAY LIKE THIS!” -

“I didn't plan to murder those people to prove my point of how much i love you”

Leonardo, glaring at her for a moment before he then roughly grabbed her by her hair, leaning closer into her as he crouched down, sneering into her face as he spoke, “Listen here. . . You would be nobody without my help. . . I'm sure society would still hate your family; If i'm honest. . . My Lady? You're no different from the dirt under my shoe, No different from those worthless prostitutes who throw their bodies at men of any rank- No matter their status hoping to get a good outcome?”

“Rossette? Countess? if you had just accepted that I would have used you for nothing more than your body? Your nothing as a person; Your as bitter and as spiteful as your family is”

“Countess? I was a fool for trusting you and giving your family back they're land and manor?”

No. . . no, this isn't how you leave me here.

. . .

.  .   .    .

“Is it because? she's higher in status than me”

“It's nothing about status, Rossette. . . I'm doing my duty and you will do yours”

. . .

“And get out of my sight before I easily go and send a message to my father about your father's embezzlement crimes and making sure he gets executed for it? Or is that too cruel of me” Leonardo said coldly as  he glared at the Countess; who never once had he debuted in society.

Is Leo insane? did he not know how hard I worked to get to this point?

I gave that man everyone.

I sacrificed my own pride and reputation and how I hold myself as a person just for him to treat me like this?

To get married to some Easterner?

“Rossette? You know I don't mean it like that . . . I can't control what my duty is as someone who will rule this empire one day”  Leonardo Said as he looked at Rossette, trying to console her and her thoughts. There was no getting through Rossette, unless you were harsh with her. Or if you simply didn't care about you enough, She had that Manipulative personality that would better her but not yourself.

“Leonardo! What do you mean then! You're just going to have me on the side as your Mistress?”

“You promised to marry me you bastard!”

“I should have never trusted you in the first place!”

Rossette Shouted as she screamed at him, venting all of her frustrations out on him, Wanting to make herself feel better about the situation. Surely someone from the eastern region cant be better than herself. Rossette knew what she wanted and she wouldn't want to let some Duchess from the eastern region get in her way, A...A part of the region she hadn't heard about. Murcadina. . . With frustration and anger building up inside Rossette, she grabbed the vase near her as she then threw it onto the floor.
The Purple Hyacinth flowers and Jasmine flowers scattered onto the floor in a mess, as the water got poured onto the floor, slightly dripping from the vase where it had cracked on its side on the white marble floor that had a red carpet flowing through it