CHAPTER -17( what drives people to grow up , it's not responsibility, it's fear)

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Inside Prince's Chamber:

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Martha look at the Prince with a shy demeanor. She's freezing badly. She can hear the sound of her heart beat.

"My prince, my name's Martha... I'm your 2nd Consort. We have met before."

Martha blushed.

"Oh yeah.... I've met you on the poolside that day."Prince Jordan said annoyingly.

Martha steped towards the prince and got closer.

"Hay ...what the heck are you doing?"Jordan pushed her away.

"But Prince...."Martha said.

"Listen to me, I don't like all these. You better stay away from me." Jordan kept himself in a safe distance from her.

"But Princess Evelina told me that you'll be having a physical intercourse tonight ...And you're rejecting me now?" Martha start crying and broke a vase in front of her

"Just....just stop shouting. You're too much loud...mmm.....How about this....if you keep your mouth shut and stop crying,then I'll give you a gift.''Jordan covered her mouth with the palm of his hand because of her shouting.

"A gift!!! Then I want a book. It's a rare book that has been written a thousand years ago. I'll tell you the name someday. It's very expensive ...." Martha swiped her tears and smiled removing Jordan's hands from her mouth.

"Okay..Now go on that corner and sit on the couch.... don't tell Evelina that I didn't touch you... Anyway she's going to leave me.So I don't want to upset her....."

"As you wish my Prince."Martha sat on the couch and started eating fruits from the table.

Jordan looked at Martha with a disgust while sitting on his study table. He opened up a book to distract himself from this strange girl. She's nothing like Evelina. Evelina is like an angel. Even angels can't compete with her elegance. And on the other side this girl is so humanly.

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After a while...

Jordan is preparing some maps of some states outside of their cavalry sitting in his study table. It's important to know who aren't under their rule...

He heard Evelina's voice vibrating from outside. She maybe arguing with a girl...

"Oh....why is she still outside..." Jordan got a little bit afraid.

He looked at Martha. She slept on the couch already.

Jordan threw a glass and Martha woke up hearing the noise.

" Hay girl listen to me..." Jordan shouted.

" Yeah....tell me, my Prince." Martha smiled while waking up.

" Put off you clothes...all of it....Hurry up.." Jordan ordered.

" Really.....you want me to put off my clothes...that means we're going to do that...!!" Martha became so excited as she started putting off her clothes one by one.

" Stop your stupid imagination and do as I'm saying." Jordan got more annoyed hearing Martha.

Martha stood in front of Jordan leaving herself totally naked.She felt goosebumps as the cold breeze touched her bare skin.

Martha was about to come towards the study table after removing all the clothes from her body , but Jordan stopped her.

"Stop right there...why you're coming towards me.....just go to the bed and sleep like this... " Jordan glaned over her naked body for once. Then again shifted his gaze towards the maps.

" SLEEP!! Should I sleep like this....naked?"

" Yeah.... because I'm saying so.... wrap a blanket over you and sleep. I don't want to repeat again. Stop causing my headache...." Jordan tried to concentrate on his activities.

But his mind is attracting outside towards Evelina's voice. He wants to hear about what they're talking about...but it seems difficult to hear that.

Whatever he has already prepared the perfect environment . Even if Evelina came inside, she won't be able to know that Jordan didn't even touch this girl....

Jordan tried hard to give full attention in making maps....but his mind is continuously spreading about the thought of Evelina's departure.

What if Federico failed to kill Samuel...then he has to let her go...

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Outside the Prince Manor:

Evelina and Amanda are still fighting outside the manor. Suddenly Andreas entered there with some guards.

"Evelina.... there's an important news." Andreas kept down his gaze.

"What's the news?Tell me.." Evelina smiled.

She's still holding Amanda in her clasp so that she won't get inside.

"Actually it's a news from the south. We've won the war against the robbers." Andreas kept looking down.

"Oh... it's a good news. People's suffering finally ended."Evelina smiled gracefully, holding Amanda more tightly.

"But Eve.... General Samuel died during the war. He sacrificed himself and gained the honoured of being a martyr."Andreas said.

Evelina released Amanda's hand all of a sudden. But Amanda couldn't understand anything.

"You're kidding me right. Stop these terrible jokes."Evelina's whole body trembled .

"No ... I'm not. It's true. His dead body has been brought along with other martyrs.

The Emperor along with the Regent and Ministers went to the Royal Cemetery to show him the last respect." Andreas said with a fear.

"No.... it can't be.... it can't be...I don't believe you. We're about to meet after tomorrow....he can't leave like this..." Evelina knelt down on the ground and growled.

"Evelina .... control yourself."Andreas hold her

Evelina burst into tears....she stood up and started running .....

"I don't believe you.... I'll go myself."

But Andreas stopped her

"Where are you going?"

"To the Royal Cemetery!!" Evelina tried to release her hand from Andreas.

"You can't...have you forget...a Princess can't get out of the Palace without a valid reason." Andreas said

"I don't care.....f***k off with this Princess status..... .let me go." Evelina shouted loudly while weeping.

Her tears welling continuously from her eyes

"Please try to understand...." Andreas said with a pity.

" I want to go.... Please do something.....He can't leave me...." Evelina cried so deeply. Her heart started pounding with fear. She's praying hard that everything turned out to be a bad dream only.

Andreas pulled her in embrace.

"Eve.....he died with an honor. He always wanted to be a martyr. Don't spoil his reputation by doing anything stupid. Do you want him to be humiliated after his death? He led a glorious life...if anyone got to know about your and his affair... it'll be a spot in his clean image....." Andreas tried to explain to her.

" T h e n ..... T e l l m e w H a t d o

I dO? Please let me go there....Find out a way.... . ." Evelina screamed while crying.

"I think Prince Jordan can help you..he can take you there. Then you can join the mourning ceremony as a Commander with other Commanders."

Andreas said.

Evelina said nothing and released her hand with full force from Andreas.

She rushed to Prince's Chamber and entered without knocking. She's not in the state to consider anyone's privacy.

Amanda followed her and entered the chember as well.

"Hay... what's going on with you. You didn't let me come here and now you're going on your own." Amanda asked with a shock.

Evelina didn't answer her.

"Eve!! Why you're here!! What happened..?? ..Are you jealous of seeing me with another woman?" Prince Jordan asked Evelina with a smile as she entered .

Evelina ignored his question.

"Come with me."Evelina dragged Jordan outside the door as Martha was sleeping on the bed.

"What happened?" Jordan asked.

Evelina's eyes turn red. She gathered her strength to answer Jordan's question.

"Take me out of this Palace .I want to go to the Royal Cemetery. They said Samuel died in the war."Evelina couldn't hold back her tears and her knees got weaker.

She was about to kneel down on the ground but Jordan held her .

Jordan heard the most pleasant words he wanted to hear. ....

He looked at Andreas.

Andreas nodded blinking his eyelids.

"What are you saying....so this was the guy whom you love....." Jordan pretend as if he doesn't know anything.

Evelina said nothing. She lost the strength of crying....only hearing some strange sound.... Those sounds are so irritating. It's continuously biting her ears.

"Okay.... let's go there." Jordan answered straight forward and left the palace with Evelina and Andreas along with other guards.

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They're in a horse carriage. Evelina has frozen like a lifeless sculpture.She lost all her senses....

Her nerves are only sensing Samuel silently...

She remembered how she met Samuel for the first time....

She was 15 years old then. Her parents died and the 2nd Empress sent her to the soldier's Barak as she didn't want her to stay in the palace.

She met Samuel there. He was also taking his training from the Barak.

Samuel was a good student in martial arts. At first Evelina couldn't fit with the new environment and got punished so many times because of her mistakes....She couldn't maintain any friendship with other students as well . Then Samuel helped her and taught her everything.

That day Evelina got her first friend.

Then their friendship got deeper. Within a few days, they became lovers. They didn't propose to each other anything about love. They automatically felt the love growing inside them. It was like decided before....from the heaven...and both of them knew it without expressing.

Both of them got attracted to each other at an early age. They spent almost a complete age together.

Everything was a sweet memory and now suddenly it's filled up with bitterness.

They were going to spend their future the same as the past.....but destiny didn't let them have this chance.

Evelina took a deep breath.

"Listen Evelina... Don't create any scene there. You've to control yourself. He'll be buried with a great honor. it's your behavior that can turn everything into a pandemic situation." Andreas warned her in a soft voice.

Evelina just listened to him and looked outside at the carriage's wheels.

Jordan looked at them silently. Andreas and Jordan made an eye-contact. The gazes were drenched with guilt.So they swiftly shifted their gaze.

Jordan is feeling so uncomfortable. Evelina's pain was caused by him. He hurted Evelina at an extreme point.

Why did he did this? His pure soul got polluted with someone's blood. It's like a spot on his clean soul that can't be erase forever.

How could he become so blind by love that he committed such sin?

Jordan is feeling extremely guilty. He kept staring at Evelina without any expression.

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Soon they reached the royal cemetery. Everyone presented there thought they came to show respect to all the martyrs who sacrificed their life on the way of serving the nation.

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To be continued.....