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"Congratulations."

Aries flinched as soon as her brother's voice caressed her ears, looking back to see Davien approaching her. Aries was idling in the pavilion in the middle of the lake within the Royal Palace of Rikhill.

"I was looking for you all night," he said, stopping beside her with a smile on his face. "How can you sneak out of your own banquet like that?"

Aries chuckled with her lips closed, shaking her head. His eyes fell on the decanter in her hand.

"With an entire bottle of wine at that," he humored. "My sister, I'm worried. You don't hold your liquor well."

"Can you please stop sassing around?" she rolled her eyes playfully, setting them back on the white lotus floating on the still lake. "I snuck out because it was so loud. And also, because my brother, whose crown I stole, was the happiest of all."

"Are you expecting me to lock myself in the corner and cry myself to sleep?"