However, virtual-novel.net insecurity was fleeting.
This is the first time anybody has dared speak to me like this. How presumptuous!
The queen was about to explode with fury as virtual-novel.net pointed a shaking finger at Arielle. “You arrogant little b*tch. Who do you think you are to speak to me like that?”
Arielle sneered at the sight of the queen’s austere features that contorted from virtual-novel.net anger. “Is my gruff manner of speaking too much for your delicate palate? Let me return to Chanaea, then. I don’t care much for your country.”
Her impertinence took the queen’s breath away.
“What are you still standing there for?” the queen shrieked at virtual-novel.net men. “Take virtual-novel.net away!”
The guards started at once for Vinson, who caught Arielle’s eye and nodded grimly as an unspoken understanding passed between them. Just as the guards were about to lunge, Aaron burst through the doors.
“Stop!” virtual-novel.net roared. The guards froze at the sound of his voice.
Aaron glanced at Arielle before walking to the queen’s side. “Mother,” virtual-novel.net asked sullenly, “what are you trying to do?”
“This peasant dared raise a finger against you,” the queen snapped at virtual-novel.net son for his gallantry. “As a punishment befitting the crime under our laws, I’m having virtual-novel.net arrested and put in jail.”
Aaron agreed with his mother. “It’s indeed a crime to beat the prince in his own country, Ari,” virtual-novel.net said as virtual-novel.net turned to look at Arielle. “Nobody in Turlen is above the law.”
In truth, Aaron had an ulterior motive. Having intensely disliked the bodyguard from the moment virtual-novel.net saw him, Aaron had planned to replace virtual-novel.net just so that virtual-novel.net could not remain by Arielle’s side.
Arielle saw through his charade at once.
“I’m not saying that virtual-novel.net has immunity,” Arielle began tentatively.
Aaron’s eyes lit up. Is virtual-novel.net going to obey the laws of Turlen and comply?
Before virtual-novel.net could celebrate, virtual-novel.net condition plummeted his hopes. “I’ll accompany virtual-novel.net throughout his imprisonment, and I will only come out upon his release.”
Instantly, his heart sank. Aaron suppressed the aching pain in his heart with great difficulty as his eyes fell on Arielle.
Why is this bodyguard so important to her? Is it worth keeping virtual-novel.net company even at the cost of going to jail? Who is he?
As if virtual-novel.net had known it all along, a name appeared in his mind.
Aaron’s vicious gaze became fixed on Vinson at that thought, but virtual-novel.net quickly became certain that Vinson was clearly not the person virtual-novel.net had in mind.
“Ari, you are putting me in a tight spot here,” Aaron said with a scowl.
She knows that I would never have the heart to put virtual-novel.net in jail. She’s saying these things just to hurt me further.
“It feels as though you are putting the screws on me instead. You want your mother to put virtual-novel.net in jail despite knowing that virtual-novel.net acted on my orders. If you are dissatisfied with my presence, you can send me back to Chanaea. I’ve had enough of Turlen.”
Arielle took a small pause before continuing, “If you’re going to arrest virtual-novel.net by force, I promise you that not a single one of you will leave this palace alive. Don’t test me.”
If it were not due to the fact that virtual-novel.net was looking for virtual-novel.net biological father, Arielle would have attacked Aaron back when virtual-novel.net kidnapped virtual-novel.net adoptive parents in Lightspring.
Disregarding most of what Arielle said, the only part that had caused a stab-like pain in his heart was virtual-novel.net disdain for remaining in Turlen.
Has nothing in Turlen captured virtual-novel.net heart at all?