Chapter 77: Lady and Detoxification (2)

Ernest had never belonged to Amber. He had only been controlled by the love potion, he had never really loved Amber. She knew that, but still…

'I will never let Leticia have you...it can never be Leticia!'

So what if his love for her was not real.

Amber' violet eyes sharpened. She turned around and grabbed the antidote from the table and uncorked the bottle. She frantically poured the blue drops into her hand and discarded the bottle.

The bottle hit the table and rolled onto the carpet spilling the rest of the sweets as it went. Amber threw the antidote into her mouth and immediately closed the distance between her and Ernest,

'Amber, please calm down and listen to what-'

Without heeding his words, she grabbed him by the lapel of his jacket, pulled him to her and forcibly kissed him. Ernest's mouth opened in surprise so Amber was able to slip the antidote into his mouth with her tongue.

Immediately after, she could hear the sound of him chewing the antidote.

That was all there is to it.

Amber lost his false affection.

But Ernest was freed from the curse of the love potion.

It was alright, this was for the best.

'I love you, Ernest.' She said as she pulled away from him.

She was in tears. Amber girded herself as she looked into his golden eyes, that had widened in surprise.

'Goodbye…'

She turned and ran away.

'Amber, wait! I need to talk to you!'

She heard him calling her to stop but she kept running. If he caught her and tried to comfort her, and tell her he could not answer her feeling. She did not want to be told he would marry her out of sympathy.

She was not strong enough to lose love, lose pride and still looks ahead, standing alone.

She left the drawing-room, ran down the corridor, down the stairs, through another corridor. She ran heedlessly, uncaring about her long dress tearing as she did.

Though her actions were unseemly for a crown princess, she ran past ladies and knights. She did not stop. She kept running looking for a place to cry alone. A place where no one could see her tears. Before long, she pushed through a door into a library. The room was lined with bookshelves. She hurried up to them looking for the target book through her tears,

'This…'

Soon she found it; it was like the other books but the lettering on the spine was silver. She pushed the book and the door opened.

Amber entered and threw herself on the sofa.

Oh was this alright?

This was Ernest's hidden room. He was no longer in love with Amber, so she was not qualified to use it.

Even so, she just wanted to cry alone. After that, she would take a carriage to her family home. It seemed that somewhere in her heart, Amber hoped to be found. She was sickened with herself.

'I know, I will be fine…'

She wondered what she was trying to do?

Amber marveled at her stupidity as tears fell down her face.

She will go back when she was done crying.

After that, she with all her love, she would put aside the status of fiancée and her peaceful every day and leave the palace. She could only pray for Ernest's happiness from now on. She would do just that, once she finished crying.

For now, she removed her hair ornaments and took down her hair. She took off her shoes. And put her legs on the couch and hugged her knees. She put her face between her knees and cried.

The tears overflowed as a dam had burst. A sob leaked from her mouth of out of nowhere, Amber cried out as though she was the only one in world.