Wife of The Demon Prince
Chapter 29: Snuck into the mansion

Chapter 29: Snuck into the mansion

The next morning, as soon as Ara got out of bed, she thought about how to summon Merek, she needed him to do somethings for her. Ara had realized after she saw the necklace in her jewelry box last night, that many things weren’t happening the way it happened in the past, everything was changing, just like the fact that she had met the crown Prince before the grand ball, and the necklace which followed her from the future to the past. Things might not go the same like in her previous life. The biggest change she had made was stopping the Prince from leaving the kingdom, How many years had that changed?

Rather than relying on her memories, she needed to make a fresh analysis of the royal family, and to make allies with the powerful family’s in the kingdom for Hamon to become king. Before she stepped into the royal family, she needed to know more about them, she would gather the information about them in advance. Furthermore, Claire’s men had followed her yesterday, and for what purpose was still unknown to her.

Ara thought it would be safer to keep her head down as much as possible. She needed Merek to retrieve information from the palace.

’I hope he’s as capable as Hamon said.’

Just how was she going to summon him now? Ara glanced at her window, she walked to the window, then whistled just like Hamon did in the alley, Ara continued to whistle countless times, but no signs of Merek, she gave up and went off to do her morning exercises, when she was done with her morning routines.

After having her breakfast, Ara strode to the house library, since there was no way to summon Merek, she would try to search for information about their kingdom from books, but when she got to the library, there was not a single important information that would help her, Ara stared blankly at the pages, then figure out she could learn new things about the northern part she had never known about before.

KNOCK KNOCK

Suddenly there was a knock on the library door, Ara looked up at the door with a puzzled look on her face. Who could it be? She wasn’t sure who would be knocking at the library door, but she called out, "Come in."

The door opened with a slight noise, then a man with neck length black hair, and bangs covering half of his face entered the library, it was Merek with the same stony expression she’d seen on him before.

As Ara saw who it was her jaw dropped in surprise. How on earth did he get to enter the Boxton mansion without being caught? "W-what...How did you get to come into the mansion?" She inquired in surprise.

Merek closed the door behind him, before answering in his usual low deep voice, "Sneaking into guarded mansions is my specialty." He said with a straight face.

Ara wasn’t sure if his words were a joke or not, "Huh? You mean you snuck in here, without being noticed or even being caught?" She asked with her eyes widening in surprise.

"Yes." He gave a short reply with the same stony expression on his face.

Ara looked at Merek with more surprise than before. The Boxton mansion was a well known family in the kingdom who trained soldiers, the number of them on the mansion grounds was greater than that of any other family, and Merek had still been able to pass all the security to reach this deep into the mansion? The library was located deep in the inner parts of the mansion. How did he even know she was there?

However, the breach was justifiable in some ways, as Hamon had said, Merek’s abilities were exceptional. If Merek was there to kill her, he would do it with no one knowing, even though Ara had her sword to protect her, as a daughter of a general she was already in enough danger, she felt a chill creep down her spine, this man was really dangerous.

"Can I ask you a question, Merek?" She asked in curiosity.

"Yes." He said, then Ara asked him, "Have you ever snuck into someone’s house this way and killed them?"

He formed his words carefully, but what he said came as a shock to her, "That’s also my specialty, am good at assassination." Merek who already seemed to have extraordinary skills, was most known for assassination among Hamon’s men.

Ara almost fell out of her chair at his reply, She cleared her throat, but it was to be expected, when they first met she had thought he looked more appropriate as an assassin than a soldier. What was wrong with that Prince? Why did he assign an assassin as her guard? What if he killed her? Because she was sure Merek didn’t like her.

"If your mission was to assassinate me, can you kill me in here and escape without being caught?" Ara inquired.

"Well, if I take your life in here...It would be easy for me to escape without being caught, because nobody knew I was here in the first place." He said in a nonchalant tone, at his words Are narrowed her eyes at him and asked, "That means you can kill me?" Merek had no knowledge about her fighting skills, but there still stood the chance of a successful assassination.

Merek did not answer her question and just stared at her, Ara took his silence as a tacit confirmation, she wondered how many people this man had killed before. Merek’s name means ’Mighty ruler.’ She had never heard of him in her previous life.

"I want to ask you one more question."

"I won’t answer any of your questions about me again, you’ve already asked too much questions." Merek’s expression remains inscrutable, but he calmly parried away Ara’s repeated questions as if he felt uncomfortable answering them.

But Ara ignored it and asked the question she wanted to ask anyway, "Why are you answering my questions then if you don’t want to?" Ara asked with a raised brow, she hadn’t known him for long, but she could tell his personality at a glance, it seemed uncharacteristic of him to answer her. Then she heard Merek said with his deadly low voice,

"Because his highness had told me to do as you say, and obey all of your commands."

"Oh..."

So that’s why he was answering, Hamon was helping her out more than she had expected, but she didn’t completely trust the Prince and this man called Merek, "So you would obey my commands now." Merek’s face twitched, but Ara carried on regardless of his expression, "I want you to find information for me about the powerful family’s in this kingdom."

"Yes...milady." He said as if he was forced to address her as ’ Milady’

"Please I need the information as soon as possible."

Merek paused to think for some moment before he said, "I won’t be able to carry the information right away, I have somethings to do, which was why I couldn’t show up immediately when you called earlier, the information may take some time."

Ara’s jaw dropped in surprise again, How on earth did he even hear her whistle? How was it possible when he wasn’t even around the mansion? Merek was just as mysterious as the Prince.

*******

Anne walked around the mansion in search of Ara, because it was time to go out for shopping as Ara had promised yesterday, Anne went to Ara’s room but it was empty with no signs of her sister, she then went to the study room, but Ara wasn’t there. Anne had searched almost everywhere around the mansion, she saw a passing servant, "Hey...wait, do you know where my sister is?" She asked the young servant, who quickly nodded, "Yes, I saw her heading to the library earlier."

"Okay thanks." Anne made her way to the library, she murmured in complain as she walked in the long corridor, "How could she forget we’re going out today? My sister is really something, my legs are achi- Hey!" Anne suddenly exclaimed as someone bumped into her, she felt herself beginning to fall backwards, thinking she was going to hit the hard floor.

But a strong hand caught her waist before she could fall straight on the floor, Anne’s eyes were shut tightly anticipating pain from the impact the fall would cause, but when it didn’t come she opened her eyes slowly to see the person holding her, she was met with a pair of dark eyes deep set on a fairly handsome yet dangerous looking face, black hair falling across the side of his face, he glanced down at her, his deeply carved brows scrunched together in a frown.

When their eyes meet, the man quickly let go of her waist as she stood up straight, Anne then heard him say,

"Watch where you’re going next time." Then he walked away, She quickly came back to her senses. Who was that? She had never seen him before, "Hey, who are you?" Anne ran after him calling, "Stop right there, are you a thief? Do you know who’s house is this, I said stop right there!" Anne ran after him, but when she turned to the corridor the man had walked to, it was empty. She looked around, but there was nobody there.

Suddenly a thought came to her mind. He was coming from the library direction, what if he had come here to harm Ara? Ara was in the library and the man came from the library. With that thought in mind, Anne quickly ran to the library, she didn’t even bother to knock as she swung the door open, only to find Ara seated on a chair with her head down in the book she was studying. Anne sighed in relief.

Ara looked up from her book, and saw Anne at the door, "What’s wrong Anne?"

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