CHAPTER TWELVE

What!!!,everyone shouted around the table but the Oldman didn't even move and continue explainin, it was when they were young her grandparents and I went to the same college and went to military camp together her grandparents were the best of our time they were always competing with each other then they fell in love and had her mother which they also trained to be a military officer and her mother fell in love with a fellow soldier and the day they gave birth to scarlet her mother and father knows that people are after their lives so when I went to visit them with your grandmother they called us to the study and said people are threatening them so they told me two secrets I have said one today and Scarlet you will know the second one in the future,they made me and your grandmother promise that you will marry scarlet when she is of age and that we protect her cause she is the heir to all the properties and share her parents and grandparents had

immediately scarlet heard all this tears started dropping from her eyes and she excused herself from the table just as emily wants to follow her the oldman told her to sit and that carter should follow her,Mrs troy didn't like this promise because she wanted carter to date one of the girls she choose for him as she was still deep in thought she heard the second lady of the house say what a pity those girls won't be able to go on a date with carter Mrs troy who is the first lady of the house has always had so sort of hatred for marianne the second lady of the house cause she was from a average family,Clara who was mariane's daughter quickly pinched her mother and whispered mom stop you are going to make grandfather mad and Mrs Barbara then Leo who is the son of mariane looked towards the old man and said so when is the wedding grandfather, everyone looked at him and Barbara couldn't help but excuse herself from the dinning table.then scarlet who was still confused and brokenhearted heard someone calling her from behind but she didn't even move from where she was standing until carter touched tapped her and asked is she okay then all of a sudden she said am I okay how will I be okay I just learnt that I am betrothed to you and people are after my life since the day I was born and my parents and grandparents death might not be a natural death carter I am just tired I am fed up I think I need to go home please can you call emily I want to go home I don't want to stay anymore I need to clear my head and come back to talk to your grandfather, just has she finished saying this and carter was about to say something scarlet fainted onto carter's hands and carter who doesn't know what to do carried her in the bridal style way and went into the house and shouted can someone call the doctor scarlet fainted,everyone was now downstairs even the old man and when emily saw that carter was carrying scarlet who was unconscious she could not help but cry and nic could only hug her ans assure her that everything will be fine.