Night of the ball part 2

Juliet POV

"As I quietly open my eyes, I am greeted with an unpleasant conversation between my Royal Guard and beloved husband. Ah maybe I should mention this, but Avi and I both made a pact. No matter how much we love each other and need an heir, we will only go past a kiss when we both reach adulthood.

We only share the bed once a month due to Churchs requests and rules of the Castle.

Hearing Occi ask my husband if he regrets it makes me remember an unpleasant memory of how I came to be the Empress.

I was born on a really cold night by the Empress of the kingdom.

Even when my parents were married there was no love between them. Same goes for me. My mother never loved me. Neither did I, it was more like a give-take relationship.

Being born looking exactly as how a leader should so say the church. I was constantly praised and treated as a genius meant nothing to me. I knew that since I was born without love and as a girl I wouldn't succeed my father.

Even when that was the case, even when my mother knew that. Since I was able to walk and talk I was tormented with lessons. By my first debut, I was already thought enough to be able to read hard to understand books, for most of Nobels.

Well since I was so far ahead, I tried playing with my tutors and maids.

I would act stupid around them and soon after, naturally they started talking about their private lives and problems in my presence. There were also some quite talkative in the Palace I was put in as a young, 31st Princess.

Then later using riddles and simple mind games I would play around with staff that was assigned to take care of me.

For one maid I would nice for others acting like a brat. I would ignore one answer the other.

Same for the tutors, truly my father and mother both looked down on me. All tutors were stupidly stupid. Calling them stupid is truly an insult to actually stupid people.

I would ask them logical questions which they could not answer. Ask them riddles.

After that got boring I started playing games on them. Hiding myself leaving a riddle to where I was or hiding their pens and stuff.

Due to that becoming boring and hard to do pretty fast.

I found out, that my title as a Princess can be used to play too.

No don't misunderstand me there, I didn't kill anyone... personally.

While a maid was taking care of me or a tutor teaching me. I would bring up something from their past.

They would take it as a childlike curiosity and answers me simply and is not a rough way why their problem was so... bad. But their reactions and expressions didn't lie.

So by making small schemes of bringing people they liked or didn't like to the palace was not a problem.

Well after I turned 5 years old that wasn't possible anymore.

Because...

At the age of 5, I was presented to the world and my engagement to Avi was officially announced.

After that, he started coming to visit me more often, and we've gotten close. He was the only person in that hell I could talk to and play with. He never used formalities with me, always using nicknames and always teasing me. I felt like an actual girl. When I turned 7, I was assigned a Royal Guard. His eyes were dead and he was foul-mouthed. Already having Avi on my side, I figured a boy like him would be trouble.

"Why?"

Is probably what you are thinking.

Well because he could read me like a book.

I acted all cute and nice in public and around Avi and other Nobels.

That boy always knew what I was thinking and planning.

So I started my Operation: "Royal Brat side turning".

I succeeded at the age of 11.

Back to the present, despite me being the Empress I have to go and get someone to get some tea ready.

Due to Avi turning 15 this year and reaching adulthood today, all the personnel is busy. Well, few maids and 2 Butlers we have at this castle are what we never asked for anyway.

I also planned to tamper with that dammed woman's tea and send shame to her father and her family. Trying to get my Avi to turn on me.

I might not seem it, but I love my husband. Knowing him since I was 5. I've madly called to him. I'm pretty sure it is the same for Avi. Another woman trying to get in my way of having Avi only for myself needs to disappear.

But..."

[Please help me, your highness!!! That woman isn't sane!]

Woman with messed up hair and bruised face clang to Avius and Occidere that had forcibly opened the door.

"Gahaha. I never had thought she would self district like this."

[Pathetic]

"I mumbled to myself but Avius said it himself."

Occi who is not quite fond of Avi still removed a woman who was desperately clinging to Avius and him. After she started screaming that "It hurts" and begging Avius to save her.

"I just watched on the side. After my personal maid brought in the tea I made sure that it was spilled.

After finally finishing everything Occidere walked to my side. The woman was let go and she in front of me and started spouting nonsense of me making my maid do this to her and how I'm a snake tricking him in submission.

Well, It wasn't untrue. But I let both Occidere and Avius choose if they want to be in this or not.

After she was done, Avi was really mad.

He has a poker face around others, but his eyes never lie."

Avius slowly walked and then stood in front of the woman. He wore his usual business smile on his face and slowly spoke.

[What is this mess of a human?]

"I watched at the side as my husband with a cold stare watched the woman losing her mind at his feet. Now with all the noise, few servants were getting distracted from their work."

[Your Highness, I think we should move away from this spot.] Ethan spoke softly.

"I as a woman aren't allowed to say anything in this kind of situations. I may be the Empress but I am a prime suspect of this mess. Also, Occi seems really confused for some reason. Ah... Now that I think about it... Why didn't I just send Occi to get the tea...?"

As they changed places, the woman crying cursing Juliet's name the whole time.

Avius' and Juliet's guards quietly standing by their side.

[Juliet what is the meaning of this?]

Avius stared at Juliet with an angry and cold glare.

[I have done nothing this time.]

Avius looked at Juliet and opened his eyes wide surprised.

[I wouldn't attack an important person no matter how much I hated them. This was obviously an attack on us.]

"I mean I can't think of anything else but that. I can't use black magic, Occi can but he wouldn't do something without me ordering him to. There is also the fact that despite I wouldn't do it normally... I acted out of my character."

Occidere had his head down the whole time throughout the conversation.

[Occidere.]

With a serious tone and look in her eyes, Juliet called for her dazed servant.

Hearing his name called Occidere looked Juliet's way.

[Find the source of the spell, once you do report to Avlius.]

With a small nod, Occidere disappeared.