her ability

" Go on, take her away already. You are wasting the other applicants' time. I need to get through 10 more after you." Ms Xander exclaimed.

At this point people had gathered outside the exam room.

" What's going on? Ms Xander, you are our esteemed guest and yet such a commotion is coming from your room?" A lady said as she opened the door and entered without knocking. She even left the door open and from outside, some applicants were peeking.

" Ms Hilda, what do you want?" Ms Xander exclaimed. From her tone they did not like each other.

" Oh nothing, just that you and your applicant are disturbing all the other rooms. We literally had to stop our examinations because of the commotion coming from this room." Ms Hilda stated and as if on cue other examiners came in.

" Ms Hilda, I should be the one curious about the how things are handled in your kingdom. How us your department letting young women cheat their way through? Is that how you do things? You let cheaters and scammers enter the exam site? Why don't you do a better job at screening your applicants? It's no wonder this kingdom is rated the third best with regards to its medical stuff. You should just cancel this exam all together because it'spointless" Ms Xander said with a contemptuous smile.

At this point some other examiners gave me a look of contemptuous, and I guessed that they thought that Ms. Xander was referring to me when she started all that.

" Excuse me, examiner. May I day something?" one lady said in a soft and melodious voice.

" Go ahead."

" We are not like her. Some of us worked really hard to be here, and so I don't think it's fair for my fellow applicants that we get to lose a chance like this because of someone like her." She stated.

" If anything, punish her alone and leave the others out of it. Please." She continued and chants from the other applicants.

" Alright, Alright. Everyone, please return to your stations. Ms Xander, please deal with your station appropriately." Ms Hilda stated.

" Okay and I can deal with it any way I want?" She asked.

" Yes, you are after all our esteemed guest today." Ms Hilda said, but there was something hidden in her smile.

" Alright, you-You failed this station. The paper in my hand is proved that you tried to cheat. That's it, please leave the room." She said as she pointed in my direction. The few applicants standing by gasped.

" Oh I forgot to mention, just so you know, you are speaking to the duchess of our kingdom. So be mindful about what you say and how you deal with this issue, okay?" Huh? She just revealed my identity just like that, but how does she know me?

*gasps*

" She's the new duchess, I've been hearing about?"

" She's pretty"

" Just so-so"

" But did she really cheat?"

" That would bring disgrace to our Duke's residence."

Murmurs were audible all around me, but I could not say anything. Now that my identity was revealed, if I acted rashly, it would backfire and possibly affect Ryan's reputation for real. So I remained silent.

" So what if she's the duchess, even if she was the King's only daughter, I would have still done the same, cheating can not be exempted no matter your title. If I let her go because of her title, I would be sending a bad message to those with lower rankings." Ms Xander righteously stated.

" Oh, alright. But then Ms Xander, why were you not shocked by her title? Did you perhaps already know, and you purposefully targeted her?" Ms Hilda said as she laughed lightly. Her words earned my scrutiny, I mentioned this earlier, and now she was repeating my words. Could it be that Ms Hilda was here even before she came in? Was she listening in the whole time?

" Pardon? Ms Hilda, those are serious accusations you are throwing around. Why are you saying such things? Are you still sore over the award I won while you didn't?" Ms Xander swiftly changed the topic.

Ms Hilda's face changed quickly, but then it was quickly concealed again.

Seeing that she hit the right spot, Ms Xander continued by saying," Are you going to continue standing there? You should go back, you too." Ms Xander said to Ms Hilda and then dismissively waving her hand at me.

Sighing, I walked towards the door where Ms Hilda stopped me and said," Oh, no. Don't get me wrong. I came here to get my applicant. For the third part of the test, Mrs Charlotte Carson Evans is my applicant, and I am her examiner." She exclaimed with a gorgeous smile which grew as Ms Xander's face got uglier.

" Ms Hilda, I just dismissed that applicant. Are you going to revoke my statement?" Ms Xander asked through clenched teeth.

" No, I am not doing such Ms Xander. But please remember, there are three parts to this test. So Mrs Evans has every right to see through all the parts of the test and whether she fails or not, depends on her ability."