They meet again...

The incoming of age for noble children has come. As for Tyrese, she was escorted by her three handsome brothers that envied by the noble ladies at the ball. It was a new whole experience for her attending the ball and socializing with elites. And the room has it's the finest elegance that the royal family could prepare for the incoming of age for the noble children. Tyrese roams her eyes and she recognizes some of the nobles and aristocrats. They were in their luxurious dress but their faces are full of disdain for each other.

"Are you nervous?" Zayk asked her.

"No, no I'm confidently fine"

"Just enjoy the ball, little sis" Calli said as he was giving her a comfortable smile.

"Thank you--"

"His Majesty has arrived."

Every guest in the ball bowed their head as a polite courtesy to the royal family. She saw how authoritative the emperor, his aura shows the decent and danger he has. Beside him was the queen, she looks beautiful and innocent. Is that the crown prince? --- He seems to be flirtatious and arrogant that's how Tyrese judges him unknowingly.

"To the glory of the pillar Aster."

"Enjoy the feast". The ballroom filled with a musical instrument and the guest started dancing with the beat of the melody coming from the instrument.

"May I dance you, my gorgeous lady?" the man approached Tyrese. They are the same age, Tyrese wanted to decline his offer to dance with him because he was a bit arrogant. Her brothers' show their faces that they were ready to wreck the man's neck in front of her. They were annoying backing her up yet very protective brothers to her.

"Isn't that rude, you never introduced yourself first before asking my hand?"

"Pardon my lady, my name is Thurd from the house of Hazan, I'm glad to meet such a lovely lady"

"Same to you"

She was about to give her hand when the room became silent. A man entered the room. Everyone looks at him with disgusted expressions and whispering his name as if he was a criminal.

"To the glory of pillar Aster"

"Duke Einar, what a surprise! I never thought you would like to attend the ball. The palace has been inviting you but you never respond" the emperor said with sarcasm.

"This banquet piqued my interest, your majesty" the duke's answered back at the majesty then he turns his back walking towards Tyrese. Wh-- why he is staring at her? Their eyes interlocked and her heart pounded with familiar sensations. She couldn't even give attention to the muttering of the guests because the duke gazes absorb her.

"Greetings my lady, may I dance my future wife, Lady Tyrese," Duke Einar Quillon De Mckross was the name of her fiancé. The promised bond that was made for them. He was the duke of Northern Zikashiere and the infamous tyrant.

Everyone in the banquet was surprised at what the duke said. He gently took her right hand and slowly but with a tenderness he kisses her hand. Her brother was just watching them, they couldn't do anything. And the man named Thurd stiffened at the duke's aura. To lighten up the atmosphere, Tyrese accepted the duke's request to dance.

The hall ambiance resume when the melody on the piano is heard and the guests' dance with their respected dance partners.

"Aren't you afraid of me?"

"No, why would I be afraid of you?"

"Nothing..."

"So you dance well Duke Einar, this isn't your first time to dance. Right?"

"Yeah, I had my amazing first dance with someone that I'd treasured"

"She was a great teacher to you because you dance gracefully," She remarked with bitterness. Her heart reacted unconsciously to what the duke stated, it seems her heart twisted and becoming numb though it's their first formal encounter as nobles.

After the duke dance with her, he excuses himself to leave the ball. Tyrese nods her head but her eyes follow him until he vanished from the crowds. Next, she dances with her handsome brothers that's why all the noble ladies are envious of her. It was funny to her side cause Zayk and Jacques tried to avoid the ladies to dance except for Callister, of course, she knew him well being an attractive casanova makes him more outstanding in the elites especially to the ladies. When Tyrese got tired from dancing and chatting with the nobles she went out to the balcony of the grand palace to breathe some fresh air. She gazed at the beautiful starry night and the night wind breeze tingles her bare skin where she imagines herself free from the complicated life. What a wonderful life! She even forgets that she came from a different life, her vague past life.

"I want you..... I want you to be mine... I had always been at your side but you never looked at me...."

Tyrese heard a woman's voice coming from the dark part of the gazebo, she looked down from the balcony and she saw the silhouette of the two people. The tall bushes cover them but the moon illuminates the woman talking her confession to the man. Tyrese's eyesight is like an eye of a hawk so, she can see the man's physique moreover when the man ignored the woman confessing he turns away from her. She instantly recognized the man, he was none other than her fiancé. Her whole body became numb and she turned pale.

"What the hell did I just witness? He's not only a tyrant but he has an affair with someone while he was engaged to me," She was pissed at the thought of them, she wanted to break that frickin' promised contract.

"Little sis! little sis where are you?" Callister was looking for her maybe it was time to go back home. She wanted to sleep, to forget, and to calm herself. Hoping that tomorrow her annoyance to Duke Einar might disappear.

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