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Capítulo 21: Chapter-21 Join University

"Shall we go?" Sebastian extended his hand for Elliana to take, and the latter looked at the hand as if she was looking at something alien.

She raised her gaze to Sebastian, looking into his hazel eyes, her heart increasing its pace at such a small gesture, and Sebastian didn't know what to feel about this girl anymore.

He was just extending his hand for her to place her hand so they could leave. One time he is trying to be nice, and she has to act so shyly. What will she do when he will actually -

Sebastian put a full stop to his wandering thoughts before sighing.

Elliana wiped her hand on her dress gently before placing her hand in his softly.

She acted like a curious cat and noticed how small her hand looked with his, even when she had long slender fingers.

"Hehe," She giggled, and Sebastian raised his eyebrows at her soft voice.

Did she just giggle? If yes, then why? And why the hell did it sound so cute? He looked at the innocent smile on her face as she looked at their hands that looked like she was comparing the size and couldn't help but sigh.

After they walked downstairs and sat for Lunch, Sebastian placed his cutlery down and looked at the girl with his full attention.

"Elliana, there is something I have been wondering about. You did your graduation before you went to prison for your sister's deeds, right?" Sebastian asked, and Elliana nodded before wiping her mouth to answer Sebastian.

"What do you think about joining a University?" Sebastian asked, and Elliana bit her lips.

"University?"

"You must've wanted to join one, right?"

"But I don't want to be a burden on the kingdom. The fee is so high these days. Besides, I will stay at home most of the time. You will waste your resources on me like this. It's not important at all -"

"I want my wife to be on par with everyone. You are not wasting my resources but utilizing them. I am rich enough to afford these things. Or do you have any misunderstandings about me being incapable of affording a thing as cheap as education?" Sebastian asked, and Elliana felt heat rising to her cheeks before shaking her head.

Stop it, girl! Why does your heart react like this whenever he mentions things like these? He just called you his wife, and you are swooning like he confessed his love or something. He is a vampire, for god's sake, and can hear your heartbeat crystal clear. Elliana scolded herself, and her heart immediately calmed down.

"If you say so, I will go," Elliana said.

"Which stream would you like to choose?" His next question made Elliana think carefully.

"I would like to choose science," Elliana fidgeted with her food.

"Great choice. I will have the arrangements done," Sebastian said before leaving the table once he finished eating.

"Did that just happen?" Elliana voiced out loud, and Miss Zoya smiled at her.

"It did, my love. You will be attending college too," Miss Zoya was happy, and Elliana smiled forcefully. She looked at Miss Zoya's big smile and didn't know what to think about it. Only if she knew Elliana was anything but happy with this decision.

"Mr. Prince," Elliana remembered something and shouted his name, following him out of the house, and the man paused, making her bump into his back before she rubbed her nose with a scowl.

"What is it?" He asked, and she bit her lower lip.

"Well, can you...ummm can you keep our relationship a secret? Like not tell everyone we are married? I don't want my college life to be influenced by that. I want to have a normal experience rather than everyone trying to coax me because I am your wife. You are a vampire prince," Elliana said, and Sebastian understood what she was trying to insinuate.

"Don't worry. Lucas will make all the arrangements," Sebastian looked at Lucas, who bowed at the princess.

Elliana looked at the man who was always with the prince and smiled softly.

"Thank you. I will be under your care then," Elliana was about to bow back in respect when Sebastian placed his finger under her chin, forcing her to look at him.

"You don't bow down to anyone even if you want to show respect. And you will be under my care, not someone else's," Sebastian said, and Elliana looked at him, confused.

However, Lucas, who felt the hint of jealousy in the prince's words, didn't know how to react to the situation. Should he be happy that the prince was finally starting to show humane reactions, or should he be annoyed because judging from how he reacted, it's going to be a problem for him in the future?

Elliana returned to her room after chatting with the chef for some time and was about to change her dress when something on the bed caught her eye.

It was a box wrapped like a gift. She walked to the gift and lifted it, confused.

"For wife," The gift said, and she was confused if she was supposed to open this box.

Sebastian didn't mention anything regarding a gift. What if it's someone else's? Don't friends buy gifts for their friends to save them from issues? Besides, he didn't have any reason to give her anything.

Today itself, she spent so much of his money. Elliana placed the gift back on the bed and was about to turn when she heard the ring going off.

Was it coming from inside this box? She brought the box closed to her ears.

Was it the phone that the prince was talking about? She felt excited like a kid and opened the gift wrapping hurriedly.

She took out the brand new phone from the box and smiled when she saw the incoming call from an unfamiliar number.

However, the name looked too familiar to her.

"Mr. Marino, my husband," The caller ID said, and Elliana chuckled with tears in her eyes.

This was the first time someone bothered to consider her feelings and comfort and bought something for her. She sat on the bed before looking at the caller id with trembling fingers.

She has talked to people over a landline before and has seen her bullies from the school using this device, but she never got the chance to use it personally.

The one time she took Madeline's phone because she wanted to contact Aditya, Madeline had deliberately crushed the phone and blamed it on her.

Elliana looked at the phone ringing again and gulped.

She looked at the caller icon and swiped it up gently. With the phone near her ears, she breathed gently, unsure what to say.

Sebastian, who had called her to ensure she sees the gift and knows what was inside the box, heard her ragged breathing and couldn't help but sigh.

None of them spoke anything for a few seconds, and Lucas looked at his prince from the rearview mirror, looking out of the window with a neutral expression.

It was hard to read what he was thinking about, and who he was talking to.

After what felt like an eternity, Sebastian finally broke out of the silence.

"Did you like it?" His voice was cold, void of emotions. But to Elliana, it was the softest voice filled with care in the world.

"Yes. Thank you. It's... It's my f- first gift," Elliana's voice shook, and Sebastian closed his eyes, concentrating on her breathing which was strangely soothing.

"I am glad I am your first," he said after a long time, and Elliana nodded before remembering he couldn't see her.

"Me too," she said.

"I have work to do," Sebastian said after some time, and Elliana hummed.

"I am going to end the call now," Sebastian spoke, and Elliana hummed again, making him sigh.

He waited for her to end the call for a few seconds, but when she didn't, he spoke again.

"I will be back soon," he said before ending the call and stuffing the phone in his pocket.

This was probably the most mundane and boring conversation he had with someone for any onlooker, but for Sebastian, there was a feeling to this conversation that was unexplainable.

Everything surrounding Elliana was becoming unexplainable now, and he didn't know what to feel about it.

Did he like the change? No. Did he hate the change? Definitely not.

He wasn't a soft person. He never was. Even when his parents were present, he never took the pain to soften his voice for someone, but when it comes to this girl, he just can't bring himself to raise his voice at her.

Was it because she was soft-spoken herself, or was it because she was so calm and scared most of the time that scaring her more sounded like a bad idea?

Lucas looked at his prince before smiling inwardly. After a really long time, he was finally seeing some hope that his prince would be able to live a happy life. It all started with these humans that Sebastian hated the most, but for once, maybe something greater than hatred would ignite again, all because of a human, a very good one at that.

Elliana placed the phone on her side of the bed with her utmost care as if it was the most fragile thing in the world and went to change her clothes. After returning, she finally took out the art supplies she bought and sprawled on the ground with them.

With a dream and image in her mind, she started sketching what her imagination looked like.


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Capítulo 22: Chapter-22 A painting

It took Elliana thirty minutes to finally draw the rough sketch before she brought some water and started coloring the figures she had drawn so carefully. It was the first drawing of her sketchbook, and she wanted it to look good.

It wasn't her best piece, but she was satisfied with her artwork. She collected her colors after two hours of painting and arranged them nicely in the bottom area of her closet.

After the drawing dried, she looked at the painting with a smile.

"Mrs. Elliana, would you like to try some desserts?" Elliana heard the chef's voice from the intercom, and she left the file on the bed before answering a quick yes and leaving the room.

"A chocolate cake?" Elliana widened her eyes before blinking her eyes at the chef.

"I hope I don't trouble you a lot," Elliana said, and the Chef shook his head.

"You are like my daughter, Mrs. Elliana. You don't bother me. Rather it fills me with joy when I look at your happy smile after eating the food I cook. I have worked in this kitchen for so many years, but your smile gives me the most satisfaction and the appreciation I was looking for," the chef said, his focus on the dishes.

When the princess didn't say anything for some time, he looked up at her, only to smile when he saw her dirty mouth.

She was seriously like a kid.

"Wipe that chocolate before sir sees you like this or -" Chef said while walking to the kitchen to bring the napkins that he forgot to put on the table, and Elliana shrugged before taking another mouthful of the cake.

"Are you having snacks?" Sebastian's voice echoed in the empty dining room, and Elliana froze in her place along with the chef, who contemplated whether he should go out.

No. He should give the napkins to the princess. She already had a bad day. What if the prince scolds her for something which isn't even her fault? But what if he scolds her and suspends him from the kitchen? That way, he won't be able to cook for the princess anymore. Chef felt troubled.

"I..." Elliana looked the other way, licking her lips with her tongue to clean the most chocolate she could, an action that didn't go unnoticed by Sebastian since he was standing right above her.

"Can I have some?" Sebastian asked, and Elliana looked at her messy plate, unsure if she should offer the remaining cake to the prince from her plate or if he was asking her to call the chef and get him another plate.

"Mr. Chef, can you -" Elliana froze when Sebastian sat beside her and ate from the same spoon as hers.

Her heart skipped a beat, and she looked at the prince with sheer shock. Why would he do that? Did the prince just share an indirect kiss with her? Is this considered their first kiss now? Elliana's thoughts ran wild, and she looked at her plate shyly.

"So messy," Sebastian said before he grabbed her chin, forcing her to look at him.

He looked at the chocolate on the corner of her mouth before shifting his gaze to her wide eyes.

He was tempted to tease her, but that would want him to take off his mask, and he didn't want to do that. He wiped the chocolate on her lips from his thumb before bringing his thumb under his big mask to have a good taste of it.

"It's sweet indeed," Sebastian said, not averting his gaze from her shy eyes.

He saw the swirl of emotions in them, adoration, shyness, and care being the dominant ones, and sighed.

"Brandon, bring my things to my office. I have a meeting to attend," Sebastian ordered no one in particular before standing and leaving.

Once the prince left, Elliana heaved a sigh of relief before touching her lips with a faint smile.

Her lips didn't feel like hers anymore. They felt like they now belonged to the prince since they touched them. Elliana flailed her legs under the table happily before continuing her eating, making the chef chuckle, who was peeping at her.

Before walking to his office, Sebastian stopped by his room to wash up a little.

He walked out of the washroom with a fresh look before wearing appropriate clothes for the meeting with his prince overcoat. As he did his cufflinks, his gaze fell on the sketchbook on the bed through the mirror's reflection.

He hates messy things the most.

It will be really a task to live with a girl like her who isn't that mindful of her image and the things around her. He sighed before walking to the bed to keep the sketchbook on the table.

As he bent to place the Sketchbook on the table, he paused and opened it to see if she drew something.

To say he was amazed would be an understatement. It was a sketch of two people. One of them looked like the princess herself, and the second person looked like him.

His backside was drawn on the sketchbook while the princess's side profile looked towards him with longing and love in her eyes. Her hand was extended as if she was trying to call on to him while the prince was looking at a lake.

It was beautiful, and one would say that it was filled with positive feelings, but to Sebastian, it looked depressing. He looked at his back and realized that it was his reality.

He was standing alone near the lake with no one by his side. For a moment, it felt like she was trying to draw how lonely he was, and it won't be wrong if that was the exact meaning. It was true.

Seeing the princess extending her hand as if she wanted to hold the prince's hand and pull him out of his -, Sebastian felt a sudden wave of emotions and closed the Sketchbook with a sigh before placing it on the table.

She was a good painter. He was yet to disclose all her talents. The more he spent time with her, the more unique she looked from others.

With a last look at the sketchbook, Sebastian left the room.

"Are you getting my point? I can look over the fact that you asked the princess for help, and you went behind me, but you'll have to do this for me," Sebastian sat behind his table on his boss's chair, and Miss Zoya looked at her feet before nodding.

"The princess will start college tomorrow. I want your daughter Shreya to keep a keen eye on her. We can't overlook the fact that there would be other humans in that University along with her. Even if the princess is not wrong, I want to keep her under observation. She might not try to do something, but those humans around her can't be trusted," Sebastian looked at Miss Zoya, and when she didn't say anything, he sighed.

"I am doing this for her benefit too. She has demanded that I don't disclose we are married. She wants to live her college life like a free soul, away from all the royal shackles, and I want someone to keep her safe. Blue will be constantly on alert. All your daughter needs to do is stand for the princess. You can do that after everything she did, right?" Sebastian asked, and Miss Zoya finally lifted her gaze before smiling.

"I will ask Shreya to do so. I would be more than happy if my daughter could assist the princess in any way," Miss Zoya said, and Sebastian nodded.

Very well.

One of the main reasons he probed Elliana to attend the university is because he wanted her to be close to those humans so he could find out if they were devising any strategies against them.

From what Miss Zoya said, the council head's son of the humans was also smitten by Elliana at some point. They can use this as a strategic approach to lure and find out more about their evil minds. There is no seduction bigger than the seduction of something you can't have.

Now that the council head's son knows he can't have Elliana, everything she'll do will affect and attract him. Sebastian nodded at himself, ignoring the uneasy feeling he was getting from the thought of people bullying Elliana.

He will support her, but she is also important to his mission. If he couldn't use her, there would be no meaning in all this drama and effort he was putting into being gentle with her.

Sebastian leaned back in his chair before looking at his phone.

The last call he made was to Elliana itself. He had saved her number by her initials E.H.

He didn't know why he even bothered to write such a long name for himself on her phone.

"Sir, can I ask you one more thing?" Miss Zoya asked.

"What is it?"

"Since you are only using Elliana for your mission, it won't be a problem if she falls in love with another man, right?" Mizz Zoya's question rendered Lucas and Sebastian speechless.

What the hell was wrong with this woman? She was asking for permission for the princess to commit adultery?

"And what is that supposed to mean, Miss Zoya?" Sebastian looked at her, unsure of what was going on inside her head.

"The literal meaning, sir. I want to be there for her as a mother. I want her to be able to share everything with me. She is one of the most beautiful girls I have seen. It's a given that she will have many suitors in college. Since you are just using her, I will at least guide her on how to choose a good man to be her first boyfriend. I can't wait for her to return and tell me everything," Miss Zoya clapped her hands.

"I also know that many prominent vampires are also studying there. What if she catches the eyes of one of those? They are not less than royalty. I just hope she finds a gentleman who would kiss the path she will walk on," Miss Zoya swooned.

"She deserves the best. Huh, I can't control my heart anymore. There are so many things I have to prepare for. The first impression is important," Miss Zoya couldn't control her excitement and didn't even bother to say she was leaving and left just like that.

Lucas looked at the prince to ask him if they were ready for the meeting, but when he saw the ugly expression on his face, he gulped before leaving the room silently. It wasn't long before the sound of glass shattering echoed in the corridor, and he sighed.

Things will either turn too interesting or too painful for everyone in the household from now on that the princess will join College, and the prince might gain some competition.


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