Warning from the chamberlain

Next day.

"My mommy is okay right?" The boy asked in a worried tone to his dad.

"come here" Cassius took his son on his lap.

Averio was a bit stiff approaching his own father, unlike when he was with Ophelia and the boy would immediately get excited.

It was because the father and son rarely saw each other.

"Your mommy is okay" Cassius tried to calm his son down.

The attack from the panther yesterday really took them both by shock for sure. Cassius felt stupid why he had to come so late that Ophelia had to get hurt first.

"Where is Mommy now?"

"she's resting in her room. You're going to give her a some time, right? Today you played with Louis first, okay boy?" Averio coaxed him.

He knew very well that his son would be sad if he spent a day without Ophelia.

Reluctantly, Averio nodded.

The boy didn't stop crying ever since he saw that Ophelia was hurt.

He was afraid that the girl would not be able to walk again. Even though Ophelia had reassured him many times that she was fine.

'ah, my son really loves her' Cassius thought.

*****

"Miss Ophelia, I want you to remember my words forever! You are not a caretaker of ordinary noble's son. You are the caretaker of the prince, the only son of the king! How could you let him be in such near danger as yesterday?" Louis raised his voice to the girl.

Ophelia could only look down. She was so scared that the answer stuck in her throat reluctant to come out.

The panther's attack rattled the entire palace as they returned from yesterday's picnic. Especially because the attack really endangered the prince's safety and happened while Averio was with her.

Everyone immediately arbitrarily concluded who was to blame for yesterday's events.

"Prince's safety should take precedence over your own safety. Remember that well in your head"

Even though Averio was fine but still, Louis felt the need to remind this girl he thought was so careless. "What was the use of you accompanying the King and prince yesterday if you were of no use?"

Her heart heats up.

"My lord, please forgive my carelessness. I will not repeat it again"

As the healer Cassius had called to treat her leg came out of her room, Ophelia tried to stand up. She didn't want to appear weak and useless in front of the royal chamberlain.

She really didn't like Louis's words because it sounded like she didn't care about the safety of the prince.

There was nothing she cared more about than the safety of the king's son.

'huh, i was too absorbed in my own fun yesterday make me so careless'

Louis looked at the human girl in front of him from head to toe.

The fact that the king sent a special healer to treat this girl's legs and visit her alone, bothered him a little.

Because in all the time he had served Cassius since the man was a teenager until now, he had never once cared so much for an ordinary worker.

Especially an human.

This girl is still so young. Louis thought. And was pretty enough for a maid. She could have used her appearance to her own advantage. After all humans like to do that.

Did this girl come here on purpose to try to seduce the king?

The chamberlain became suspicious "I see you are incompetent at your job"

Ophelia was shocked. As far as she could remember she had done the task assigned to her to the best of her ability.

She takes care of the prince with all her heart. So all this is still lacking in the eyes of the royal family?

"I'll do better" Was all she could say. She promised to fix what she had not been able to do so far.

Louis mumbled in dissatisfied "Or His Majesty can find another replacement to take care of the prince"

Since the beginning of this girl's proposal he was skeptical. King Cassius had killed five of Averio's nannies who proved to be assassin sent by the enemy to kill the prince.

Louis initially suspected that this girl would end up the same way too.

Ophelia froze on the spot. Suddenly the pain in her legs was no longer felt when the words she feared the most came out of the bespectacled man's mouth.

"Please, please give me one chance. I can prove it" she begged.

It was no longer an excuse to repay the debt, but she felt the need to prove that she would be able to take care of the little prince.

The thought of leaving the boy for some reason saddened her.

Louis shook his head "You have no right-"

"You have no right Louis"

The cold voice instantly made them both turn towards the doorway.

The king standing there.

Cassius entered and suddenly his presence made the atmosphere even more tense.

"Y... Your Majesty" Louis stuttered

"I don't think anyone has the right to fire my workers but me" Cassius said coldly.

No matter how stiff he is, he is always warm to the chamberlain who has served the Dandridge family for a long time. But what Louis had just said had made him furious.

Cassius was furious that his chamberlain intended to fire Ophelia.

"this girl works for me. My son loves her, you have no reason to do what you just said"

"But Your Majesty, she almost endangered the prince's life-"

"she didn't. The attack wasn't anyone's fault. Ophelia will still work here for me. You can leave."

Louis stood still.

The king is odd strange this time. He usually wouldn't give a chance to anyone who had harmed his son.

"Very well, Your Majesty" Louis bowed respectfully to Cassius and left the room.

She got goosebumps

how the king's orders so easily changed her fate.

Now that she was left alone with the king, she was even more afraid. Was the king here to say the same thing as Louis earlier?

Cassius wanted to visit Ophelia and right now he was annoyed to see her who had not fully recovered even stood up 'this girl should rest, she disobeyed my words'

"Why are you even standing?! Sit down!"

Ophelia shook and slumped onto the couch.