CHAPTER 12
On their way out of the palace, he met someone he thought he would never meet again, the crown prince. He was his brother and yet he hated him a lot; since he was born from the favorite concubine, his brother always felt threatened by him.
He didn’t have a proper childhood, thanks to him. Xavier looked at him for a while before bowing his head. The crown prince’s palanquin stopped and he wondered why it did.
The crown prince seemed very furious but not with him but with the Saintess. The crown prince probably had no idea who he was fuming at. He just prayed that he would get what he deserves.
“Don’t you see me passing?” he asked her but the Saintess he knew rarely answers such silly questions.
His brother got annoyed by what just happened. He got down his palanquin still angry as hell and he removed the mask covering the Saintess face; Xavier knew then that his brother had just courted trouble. He could feel the chilly wind breezing around.
He looked at her and saw the way her gown was beginning to fly and float in the air. Her aura was so strong that you could determine her mood by the way the atmosphere around her was and right now she was so angry that he hoped that she wouldn’t do anything to hurt his brother even though it will bring great joy to him.
“What’s wrong with her?” the crown prince asked.
“Do you know who she is?2 Xavier asked him.
“Does it even matter? Here everyone bows to me, I won’t have a cheap harlot disrespecting me like that,” the crown prince said and Xavier looked at the Saintess whose eyes had turned red with anger.
He knew something bad was about to happen in the palace and it did.
The Saintess slapped the crown prince and he flew away and fell down on the ground. Upon witnessing that, the crown prince guards surrounded them. Xavier could tell they were ready to strike down the Saintess which was a very bad move on their part.
“I will advise you to help the crown prince and let us go,” Xavier warned the guards but they were also stubborn just like their master and ignored him.
The Saintess pulled out her fan and immediately he saw the guards withdrawing. It was the legendary fan that everyone knows even without seeing. Her fan made others have nightmares by just thinking about it. Her fan had shed more blood than any bother weapon he had ever heard of in his entire life.
“I have been insulted today and I don’t want to shed any blood today,” Valery said trying to calm down.
As everything was happening, the Emperor arrived looking very worried. He saw exactly what was happening and walked up to them.
“What happened?” he asked him.
Xavier answered his father and told him exactly what had happened. He saw the worried look in his father’s face.
“I’m very sorry for the way my son reacted, please show him mercy,” his father pleaded and that shook him.
Seeing someone who made his father scared like that was a huge honor. He seemed to be very scared and wary of the Saintess. He wasn’t yet born when the war broke out between the mountain and the palace but from what he heard; it was brutal.
“Royal father, please punish that harlot. She just humiliated me in front of everyone,” the crown prince said as he limped to where they were standing.
For the first time he saw the Emperor slashing out at the crown prince in public that he fell to the ground.
“Royal father, why would you defend that harlot in place of me?” the crown prince asked and he made it worse by that.
“Do you want me to lock you up? Do you even know the person you had just offended?” the Emperor asked and the crown prince looked at the emperor and then the Saintess.
He saw the fan and shock took over him.
“Is she the Saintess of the Lotus palace?”
“Now you can tell, after insulting her like that,” his father said.
“I’m very sorry, I didn’t know. Please forgive me for my ignorance,” the crown prince begged.
“I’m not the kind that forgives easily especially after being called names. Because of you, I don’t feel very good. I don’t care what you will do but you have to make it up to me or I will avenge your insults until I leave the city. I don’t think I will know where to take it out from,” the Saintess said putting back her fan.
“Please forgive him this once. I will reprimand him and make sure he doesn’t do it again,” his father pleaded on the crown prince’s behalf.
“I hope you do. I wouldn’t want your son to mess up the relationship between the two families in the end,” she said and began to walk away.
Xavier looked at his father, he looked very worried and he knew why.
“I will talk to her and make sure she doesn’t avenge what had just happened here. I won’t make any promises but I can tell you that she is very angry. It’s the second time I saw the look in her eyes. Please don’t summon her any time soon, I’m afraid she might hurt someone,” Xavier told his father and ran after the Saintess.
“Get the carriage before I destroy this road,” she said and he smiled.
It felt so good to see her like this. He will have to spend more time with her calming her down and finding ways to make her smile. If she was mad then he will spend so much time with her.
He called for the carriage which came for them. He helped her into the carriage and held her hand. It wasn’t the words that the crown prince had uttered that made her angry to that extent.
She was hiding something from him, he could feel it and yet he couldn’t ask her. She kept so many secrets and she always did it for the better of everyone but sometimes he wished that she could share her burdens with him or someone else than to keep them inside.
The thought of losing her was something he didn’t want to think about.