“Why isn’t Rhiannon here?” Yadira asked as she looked around the table and she didn’t see her baby sister.
“It seems that she is so tired as she is still asleep,” Mary replied as she walked into the dining room with a tray full of fruits of different kinds.
“But it isn’t good to sleep on an empty stomach!” Gustavo said in a disapproving tone causing Prince Ernest to look at him.
‘Just let her sleep. She will wake up when she feels hungry. Right now.
The only person who could do that was Mary and from the way she pampered her, there was no way she would wake her since she knew how tired the latter was.
“Is that true?” Yadira asked with a shocked expression.
“Yeah, it happened to me once,” Ernest replied causing the siblings to chuckle but they didn’t think that Rhiannon would be able to defeat them.
Apart from Ernest, the rest of them were trained by Celestine thus they were relatively strong. They knew that Ernest was the weakest of all and didn’t know if they went on a battle would he survive or whether he would be able to even take five men out.
“Eldest young miss just looks like the youngest miss. If not for the different eyes and hair color, people would have trouble differentiating between the two,” one of the elders said as she looked at Yadira.
“Yeah, they took after master apart from those two. They inherited them from their fathers. The two brothers are the ones who inherited master’s eye color,” another said as he nodded looking at the siblings who to them looked like Greek gods as they were blessed with looks.
“I am sure that she is happy whenever she is seeing her kids finally together and having a peaceful time,” another said with a sad smile on his face.
The siblings around heard them but didn’t say anything and let them. However, they couldn’t deny the fact that they missed their mother while Ernest hoped that he would be given a chance to see his mother even for once.
“Come on, you should first eat before talking about sad moments,” Mary said in a disapproving tone as she looked at her seniors and juniors when she saw the sadness in the sibling's eyes.
She even sighed in relief that Rhiannon wasn’t present as she would have punished them for talking about her mother when even motioning Celestine in front of Rhiannon had recently become a taboo. No one knows what’s wrong but they guessed that Rhiannon might just be wishing that her mother was present so that she could clean up the mess that she had left behind instead of leaving it to her and even making her life in fear.
“You guys are so selfish. How can you eat all by yourselves?” A soft and lazy voice sounded at the entrance then followed by a yawn causing the elders to shake their heads and look at Rhiannon in doting eyes.
“Well, you better sit down and start eating before we eat everything here,” a woman said with a teasing look making Rhiannon chuckle but she walked towards the chair where she usually sits.
“Well, we have finally accomplished something after a long journey of preparations,” Rhiannon said after they all finished eating and everyone turned to look at her.
“Well, we need to thank the man as if it weren’t for him intending to marry you off, we wouldn’t have taken a step forward to do what we did as we had thought that you were the safest person there as he is your father. When we heard the news, we were shocked and started panicking as we didn’t have that much connections and power to confront him and save you in the process. We were in distress till my brother came up with an idea and I thank him for that. I guess when he was created, he was even given a potion of my brain as he always seemed to think on my behalf,” Rhiannon said with a smile as she looked at Prince Ernest who was also smiling at her while everyone else chuckled at her words.
“However, we really can’t relax as if we do, we might find ourselves in danger. From tomorrow we will be working extra hard. Twice how we were doing. Although we have succeeded in eliminating a large amount of his people in the organization, I think there must be other fellows who were out of the country. Although we are looking forward to the organization being investigated by the officials and also being temporarily banned from getting out of the country or for them to carry business out of the country, that’s not for a moment and he will be able to get on his feet after a few months,” Rhiannon said in a serious tone since their future lied on what they will lay, the foundation that they will lay before that big day arrives.