Chapter 47 Who Is to Blame?
When Holden went back to find Candy, she was still sitting on the ground, her beautiful dress spread out like a flower. Seeing Holden's figure, her eyes were seductive. "Darling, you're finally back. What took you so long?"
But Holden didn't rush over as usual. Candy walked closer and froze—his face was deathly pale. "What happened? Did the guests want us to come over together? Then wait while I fix myself up, I..."
"No need."
Holden forced a smile, but his face was still bitter. "They're all gone. Everyone left."
Candy was confused. "Did something happen? Was the hospitality poor? Or was the wedding preparation too shabby? Actually, I also felt the whole thing was different from the wedding I imagined. Those flowers and everything were..."
"It's not that."
Seeing his beloved woman still didn't understand the situation, Holden raised his hand and gently placed it on Candy's shoulder. "Mother said it's because when we were having sex here earlier, the Marquis's daughter saw us. She went crying to the Marquis and told everyone about it, so all those nobles left."
Candy's face also turned ugly. She vaguely remembered that when she and Holden were leaning against the tree trunk, she did hear someone's footsteps. But since the two of them sometimes did it outside on the estate, and occasionally passing servants who didn't know better was normal, when nothing came of it this time, she assumed it was just a servant.
"What's a noble lady doing wandering around someone else's garden instead of staying properly in the banquet hall?" Candy said with some dissatisfaction. "Now she's disturbed the hosts' private moment and still has the nerve to make a scene. Is this what those nobles who think so highly of themselves are like?"
Looking at her angry face, Holden really couldn't understand Candy's way of thinking. Instead of first considering the situation with him and the Titan family, she went straight to blaming the Marquis's daughter. "No, darling, I don't think that's the point."
"We were definitely in the wrong. Knowing it was our wedding day and so many nobles were attending, I should have been more careful. You also shouldn't have just agreed to let me..."
Candy laughed coldly. "You mean you're blaming me for seducing you, blaming me for making you so hard you had to get off? Since when do we need so many restrictions for having sex? Have you forgotten, back when we were on the battlefield, in such chaotic places, you never said anything."
"This wedding was already far from what I expected. I understand your family doesn't have enough money, but you could have told me from the start, and I would have tried asking my father to help pay for part of it. You insisted on keeping up your noble dignity and wouldn't say anything. Just from today's nobles seeing how the Titan family organized this wedding, I'm sure those people are already laughing at us behind our backs. Darling, honestly, it couldn't get any worse, could it?"
Holden opened his mouth. He wanted to argue something—like if they could have just controlled themselves, or held on a bit longer and gone back to the upstairs room, things might have been better. But actually, Candy wasn't wrong. Even without this incident, the Titan family had already lost most of their dignity because of this wedding.
What kind of noble wedding is this shabby and rushed?
On this issue, Holden was indeed somewhat at fault, so he could only sigh and take Candy's hand. "I failed to give you the grand wedding I promised. That's my fault."
He had worried about this before, but Mother told him not to worry, so he dropped it. Now he couldn't help suspecting—since Trion and Anne seemed close before, was his sister-in-law using this to get revenge for Anne?
Holden told Candy about this possibility, and a flash of hatred immediately crossed the woman's eyes. "She definitely did it on purpose. Otherwise, why would she arrange it like this? Never mind everything else—did you see the flowers placed on both sides today? They were even wilted. I just married you and she's already bullying me like this. Later when she's in charge of all the Titan family affairs, will there be even more torment?"
"I'm going to check on Mother and ask her about it."
Candy turned her head. "The old lady? Well, I should call her Mother too. What happened to her?"
Holden lowered his eyes. "Mother fainted from anger. Earlier my brother and I sent Mother back to her room together, then I came back to find you."
Thinking of the old lady, Candy didn't really like the undisguised greed and scheming in her eyes. But now that she had married Holden, the old lady had become her mother-in-law, so she still had to keep up appearances.
She sighed. "I'll go with you. I also need to ask Trion if she deliberately targeted me for that Anne. If so, I won't be polite to her!"
Candy thought, she was the first female knight commander in the history of the Soth Empire, destined to go down in history. Especially today was her wedding, and she was marrying Holden, who had distinguished military service. How could the wedding turn out like this?
She didn't think there was anything wrong with her and Holden having sex. They were husband and wife, and this was on the Titan family's property. If others rudely interrupted, that was their fault. And if Trion didn't organize the wedding well enough, that was her fault.
Can't come up with the money but too proud to ask for it, now dragging both families down to lose face together.
What a Trion, what an Anne.
These sneaky women born into nobility will stop at nothing!
As she and Holden walked toward the old lady's room, Candy got angrier the more she thought about it. Trion was Holden's sister-in-law. Instead of helping the family save face, she was siding with outsiders, favoring a woman who had left the Titan family. What kind of behavior was this!
And that woman Anne—she had already divorced Holden, and when she left she spoke so righteously, yet she still had to find opportunities to show her presence in front of her and Holden. Was she that desperate for a man?
Candy was seething with hatred.
Originally, with the nobles attending today, she had planned to use the grand spectacle to show this group of useless nobles who only cared about bloodlines and families that people like them, with ordinary backgrounds but military achievements, could also have status equal to theirs. Better yet, seeing the sweetness between her and Holden would make them understand that the union of these two knight commanders was unshakeable, and they could even confirm that the Dawn Knight Order wouldn't be changing commanders anytime soon, and might even perform more bravely with the appearance of a married couple team.
But before anyone could chase after her with invitations begging her to grace their circles with her presence, because of Trion and Anne behind her, all these good plans were ruined!
She must kill these two bitches!