Replace The Villain's Wife

33 : A Kidnapper

"That man. He's the one who kidnapped us."

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"No! I insist!" I say it for a hundred times now. It's been half an hour of me arguing with this poker guy in front of me.

"You give me the dress, but I still want to pick the accessories myself." I cross my arms as I keep on sitting on the sofa, waiting for Karl to answer. Finally, those sharp eyes look at me. Karl sighs. 

"Do whatever you want."

I smile broadly as I imagine myself looking at those beautiful sparkling jewelries and neutral hair accessories at the shops. I won't buy more than I have now, but Karl kept saying that my accessories are all boring. He kept teasing me and said that he would give me new ones. I roll my eyes as I start remembering how easy looking he was when he gave Lydia the money to buy new jewelries.

"Alright, then I'm off now." I stand up and walk to the door.

"Wait." 

I instantly stop and turn around. "Hmm?"

"Make sure to spend all of the money or you'll have to go back and shop until you break your legs." 

I gulp. I'm a pretty downsize person who doesn't easily spend money freely and yet, the husband of mine doesn't look happy with that. Weird.

"I'll try." That's the first thing that come out from my mind.

"No trying, what's so hard about spending your money?"

"Alright-alright, I will. Good bye!" It won't be better if I stay any longer or we'll just keep on arguing until the sun sets.

We've finally arrived. I asked Alberth if he wanted to join me and he said yes. So here we are, with Lydia and Raja, as my personal guard. The store bell rings as I push the door and step inside an elegant looking interior. This store is where Ezule Kingdom member usually buy their jewelries.

"Your Highness, may I help you?" Asks the lady with several rings in her fingers and beautiful necklace on her neck.

"I want to buy several hair accessories and jewelries." I smile.

"Sure, here please." She leads me to a seat where some jewelries are displayed right in front of the chair.

I look at every details of the necklaces and rings, also hairpins. I love wearing hairpins. My eyes finally catch a beautiful necklace with light blue pendant hanging at the center.

"This one please." I instantly say. I like how simple yet eye-catching this is.

"What a good choice. It is said that this pendant absorbs bad energy from the body and release a good ones after that." the lady says.

"But if it is so, why does nobody buy it?"

"We have more like this with different energy, but they are not a simple as this one so no one has been interested in this necklace. You are the first one to choose this simple one." I nod. I understand, there's no way you would choose a simple looking necklace with a high price. 

"Good that I choose this." I giggle.

"I went to the hair accessories section. Now this is what you call spending hours on just one item. There are a lot to choose from and not only that, all of them melt my heart. I can't choose.

"Mommy, look at this." I turn around and find Alberth standing a little bit further from me. I walk to him as he points his finger on this one pin.