Bab 254: An Offer From The King

Rosalyn Lockhart emerged into the gardens and caught the scent of clean air and the wet earth. "Hah…" her eyes widened slightly. She had never noticed it before, and yet the look on Alfred Villeuce's face was pure contentment.

"The arid deserts of my lands don't give quite a nice and refreshing scent when a thunderstorm passes it."

Let it never be said that the King of Spades had no capacity for the simple enjoyment of the things in his life. While his life may have been one of the most difficult of the Four Suits because of his own land's difficulty to grow their own vegetation and had difficulty in finding waters, it simply made him more appreciative of the things that he'd witnessed.

That couldn't be said the same for the Queen of Hearts. Even while she had not originally been raised to be the Queen, she had spent a good portion of her life, and even up until now with a lavish lifestyle that made her the envy of others.