Or else?

Dawn was already appearing when April came out from sir Laurent's mansion.Thinking of a way to get rapidly that money, when a paper fell on her leg bringing her back to reality.

She took the paper and read it. A bright smile appear on her face as if what she read gave her an idea.

On the paper was written

''All the young girls of the kingdom from 17 to 20 years are invited to the castle to be chosen as a wife for Prince Edouard ''.

''If i'm chosen as the wife of that prince my problem will be solved'' she stopped talking and looked back at the paper then added

''I will have enough power and especially the necessarily money before the two months and remove my father from sir Laurent's hand'' she mumbled .

April was relieved that she has finally seen how to get that money but at the same time she was not happy because she hated very much all the bourgeois people be it Royals, nobles, capitalists, bankers, politicians etc.

She found that they treated their workers badly and peasants worser . They're all so full of themselves, arrogant, egocentric and the worst of all they're impolite . So thinking of marrying a prince displeased her very much but she was not having a choice , it was the only way for her to get that money in two months .

The king, Solomon Envel XIX has two wives and seven children . Queen Helena has five children which were Prince Darvin, prince Ronan, prince Leon , prince Leopold and prince Alec while late Queen Louisa had two children which were prince Edward and prince Alban . As far as she knew in the story of this kingdom Queen Louisa was the only peasant girl that became a queen .

That was what she knew about the royal family, She has never seen the 7 princes .

The choice for the mate of the princes was done after every 5 years. April had no idea on how they are proceeding to choose for a mate because she never participitated and even assisted to it. She was too occupied to work at the chili field and her family but the main raison was that she was not interested at all.

As the road to return at home was blocked , she was oblige to take the road of the market which was longer. She could hear people talking about the news, especially girls which were very happy. One said happily to a group of girls

'' It's prince Edward this year girls''

''In addition of being a prince,he is also a famous industrialist '' said another one very glad

''The last time he has been in this kingdom is when he had what? 17years, I think and he was already full of charisma and extremely handsome '', said another

''Five years have passed, I imagined how he look now''

'' Super hot!!!!'' The yelled joyfully

Still walking April turn to the other side and listen to another conversation

''I wish it could be prince Alec'' said the girl a little disappointed

''And for me prince Leopold or prince Leon ''

One said '' How can you choose between them girls , the seven brothers are all gorgeous even prince Alban that is just 12 is very cute''

''Anyway prince Edward is a better party for me''.

April was now really intrigue,she now wanted absolutely to see the brothers. Moving forward she saw two men talking about it.

'' All the kingdom is upside down since that news'' he said with a calm voice

''Of course they all want to be princesses '' said the other

''They seem to have forget about the rumors that runs about the castle, especially on the people of the castle ''

''Rather it's like if those rumors are even attracting them like honeybees ''

The men both start laughing

April had heard about those rumors. The so-called rumors saying that they were cursed or they eat human flesh or even that they come from hell.

She did not believe these rumors because the people of the village like to peddle fake news and invent things.

But what she was not understanding was that despite all these rumors they were still fascinated on them.

April finally arrived at home her siblings were already up, welcoming her with thousands of questions. They knew that she went and talk to sir laurent. Armin spoke first

''How is daddy ? He said very worried

Follow by prisca '' sir Laurent has accepted to free him? She asked ,

then armin immediately spoke ''does he still want to marry you?

April was dizzy with all those questions, she sight and said ''heh!!,slowly,not at the same time. No I haven't saw him, No, Yes '', she answered to their questions once. '' It's okay now?'' she smiled at them sweetly.

''How will we do? I don't want to married that old crouton April ,''. Prisca almost cried

April approche her then hug her and said '' you won't, I did a deal with him'', she said calmly. Prisca went off of her sister arms and looked at her with eyes that were wondering

'' what kind of deal?'' She asked worried because she knew of what sir laurent was capable of, Many people in the village talk about him in a very scary manner , he is so cruel, some people even says that making a deal with him is making a deal with the devil.

April replied simply'' I will explain it to you later and continues ''Are you not hundry ? I'm starving'' . She said trying to change the topic, she did not wanted to tell her about the deal because prisca was already worry.

The small armin who was looking at them answer to the questions of April ''me too!! Am super hundry''. April smiled at him then walked towards the door

'' okay, I'm going to look for mushrooms in the forest for the soup.'' She glanced at them

''be wise!'', she said with a slightly menacing tune.

Prisca then smiled '' don't worry, we're too cute to mess around '' she said and looked her sister with those puppy eyes.

''I hope so'' April said and she opened the door and went out.

In the forest April was picking mushrooms on the ground when she saw a beautiful doe , she approches in a tiptoe manner but not too near so that the doe doesn't run away.

'' she is beautiful'' she whispered. Admiring the doe which was drinking the water in a small river.

When April wanted to return in what she was doing an arrow barely passed near to her, a small sweat could been seen running down from her forehead to her cheek, her heart pounded very fast. She turned back to the doe to see if it has been touched,fortunately the doe had nothing and ran away.

She turned to where the arrow was coming from. A silhouette could be seen but April didn't waited to see the person clearly

'' you almost pierced my eye,reckless species !'', she yelled angrily.

The silhouette has a male shape but still we couldn't see the person clearly yet but the person immediately respond to April.

''It's you who were placed in front of my prey and you deserved those your eyes be pierced for making me loss my prey'' he said with a deep mesmerizing and calme voice

''And on top of that he doesn't apologize ''thought april very furiously , she was very annoyed

''Rather say that you suck, don't accuse me'', she said very satisfy with her answer

''I don't suck at hunt, we can say that I had my prey , I barely pierced his eyes, because you really ressemble that doe ''.

April could not see him but she could deduce from the way he was talking that he had a smirk on his lips. She became very irritated , that man was really annoying her

{who does he think he is , that idiot!} She thought. Then she spoke

''I forbid you to call me an animal !'', she said annoy and furious .

'' Or else ? Said the man

'' Or else I will...''

April was speechless that she couldn't finish her sentence, the creature that came out of the wood was just magnificent.

It was a young man, tall , his skin was slightly tanned, a well setup man with short brown hair having effect wearing disheveled hair ,beautiful silver gray eyes , dimples on both cheeks, his lips were so pink that it looked like strawberry.

He held a bow on his right hand, he approches April stooped down towards her, looking her with those bewitching eyes and said

'' Or else you will?'' A smirk appear on his lips.