Flies

The family tried to be quiet about this as possible, but with nosy neighbors, it is not possible. Because of the nosy neighbors surrounding them, news and gossips came out about the Vinnesia getting robbed. Of course, it reached both the Yvonne family and the royal family.

"Say that again?" Victon coldly ordered with his brows furrowed.

"Your Highness, there was an armed robber who got arrested in front of the "Vinnesia Bakes" last night" a knight reported.

"And what happened to the knights that I assigned to guard Megan?" He said with his dangerously low voice.

The knights who were assigned to Megan kneeled down with cold sweat dripping from their forehead. "Your Highness as you said we followed the Young Miss everywhere. She went to the old house then came home through the back door. We didn't realize the front door was opened with an intruder inside because we saw her going into back safely." One of the knights explained bravely in the stead of the other knights who were nervously breaking down.

The room was dead silence with only Victon tapping his fingers on the table, thinking if he should replace these knights with better ones.

"Consider yourselves lucky because she wasn't harmed. Go back to your posts and protect her from any harm, understood?" Victon said with a low growl.

"Yes, Your Highness!" The knights immediately scrammed out of the room.

'Seems like there's a fly trying to harm her.' Victon thought. He then took out a parchment to write something down, stamped it with the Dukedom's symbol and gave it to a servant. "Tell Butler Delian to send this to the Emperor."

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"What is the important matter that made you hastily come to the castle? Missed your dear uncle already?" The Emperor asked his nephew.

They sat in a secluded room meant to share secrets. Victon's face was not pretty, neither is he in the mood for sarcastic jokes. "You haven't heard of what happened to Megan?"

"Of course I have. It's all over the capital, gossips are taken very seriously in this kingdom, to the point that I, the Emperor, hears about it."

"I remembered you said you would announce taking her under your care so they wouldn't touch her. Someone is now targeting her and I need to know" Victon clenched his jaws. "Give me the man that your knights captured."

"Truthfully, I forgot about announcing her under my care. That was totally my fault for not upholding to our promise. And yes, I will order the knights to give the captured robber to you."

The Emperor drank his tea and laughed. "You know how strong your little girlfriend is? The knights have told me that she knocked the robber unconscious with a ROLLING PIN HAHAHA!"

Victon finally smiled as he thought she cute she looked showing off her feisty side.

"I will give the offender to you Duke by the afternoon. Don't kill him, extract information first, then kill. A little advice from uncle" Emperor Walden gave a thumbs up.

"... thank you Your Highness" Victon bowed then left the castle.

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For the Vinnesia who had a sleepless morning, they thought their business would be slower than before because of the little incident. But to their surprise, it was the opposite of that. Customers came in more than usual today, as if they are trying to help the poor bakery earn the cash back. Little did they know the Vinnesia was never robbed of their money in the first place.

"Wow, I didn't expect for so many customers to come in today" her father said.

"I know right, we didn't even eat lunch because it was so busy" Megan said as she ate a sandwich. They closed the shop with most of their energy depleted. Megan went to take out the trash in the backyard when she stopped as she sees her boyfriend.

"Victon!" Megan smiled as she dropped the trash bags to hug him.

"I heard about the robbery. Are you alright?" Victon asked as he cupped her cheeks.

"Hm I knocked the robber in the head with a rolling pin haha" Megan replied victoriously.

Victon didn't say anything else and only looked at her lovingly. He would've gone berserk if anything happened to her now that he's around. "Megan, be careful of the flies. There's some flies trying to mess with you, but don't worry I will catch the culprit."

"I already expected them to attack me, but I didn't think they would attack so early. These flies are here to get rid of me and claim my handsome boyfriend. Maybe you should wear a mask to hide your dashing face" Megan pouted.

He chuckled and patted her head, "my face is only reserved for your touch."

She blushed then said, "how will you catch the fly?"

"Easy, I'm going to interrogate the robber" Victon said with a deadly glare in his eyes.

"You mean torture?" Megan corrected him. She knew too knew well how the world worked because of Theodore's constant nagging.

"Hm" Victon replied.

"Alright, don't get too much blood on yourself. I don't want your dashing face full of blood. Good night" Megan kissed his cheek then ran back inside before Victon could react.

With a smile Victon went back to the mansion, his mood slowly becoming deadly.