Chapter 120

"Wish me luck?" he says to the three of us, a little bit too jovial for my liking.

I'm guessing that some bit of deception has led him to believe that we will sit here, while he practically walks off to danger.

"We won't to wish you luck" I say getting up, Arden and Alice seem to grab onto my notion "we are going to be with you, every step of the way" I say holding his hand and he squeezes mine too.

I expect Arden and Alice to do the same but they back away shyly. I motion them over and both shake thier head in the negative.

"You're his wife, you can get jealous if we hold his hand like that".

My face, my face flushes a crimson red at this as I practically choke on a bit of air.

Adrian simply laughs and drags me forward as we walk to the field.

So....., we are walking hand-in-hand, mine swinging in his and both of us walking like delighted little children, delighted little children who are basically working into an area where a lot of death would occur today.

I try my best to keep that out of my head, I try my best to ignore the solemn attitude everyone is wearing today. It seems it isn't only i that is scared, I'm not the only one who is scared shitless about today's happenings.

Almost everyone here and everyone else wears such a solemn expression on their faces that you would not just imagine these same people are the band of murderers and corny aristocrats I had always imagined them to be.

I mean they had been doing this for a while now, at least they should be a little bit more brave, even I look more brave than them and I chuckle to myself at this.

I noticed Charlotte in her amazing little floral gown, and her beautiful face. I notice the outstanding discontent on her face, and I wonder where Damen has gone.

I smile at myself as a possibility rears itself up in my head. It could happen, it could just so happen that Damen has finally decided that he has had enough of her, he has had enough of her tricky and her disgusting ways, and so he is leaving now.

He is leaving her to find something else to do with himself and I cannot tell you the sort of joy that erupts into my my belly at this.

I had only met Damen for a total of just one encounter, even that encounter couldn't really be counted as an encounter because I had gone against Alice's orders, i had started staring into his eyes but even if I barely knew him, as I barely know him and with the fact that he is the one who also lays a claim to Adrian's inheritance, I also feel bad for him.

I feel bad that he's stuck with someone as horrible as her and I'm guessing that it shows on my face.

She shoots me a galre as she catches me holding Adrian's hand and him holding mine, and she walks away quickly.