Wife of The Demon Prince
Chapter 32: Powerful family in Findara

Chapter 32: Powerful family in Findara

As the night passed and the sun rose up to the sky. The day Ara planned to head to the southern part arrived. Hamon had sent a letter to Ara, urging her to come before the grand ball. However, she already had plans to go there even if Hamon hadn’t told her to come. Ara wanted to make sure that he attends this time, she didn’t trust the Prince that much, he might change his mind and not appear just like he did in her previous life.

Ara had slept late last night, because she was busy preparing to make sure the Boxton mansion would run smoothly without her presence. It had taken her longer than expected to sort out everything, and Ara hadn’t been able to go to bed earlier until it was almost morning.

Ara rubbed her stiff eyes as she pushed herself out of bed, there was a lot to do, she couldn’t waste her time sleeping all day. The warm sunshine came in from the window, as the slow wind gently blew the curtains open. Ara had something to attend to before they would leave for the south, it would be good to finish everything in time.

Ara stretched her arm to ring the bell on her bedside to call her maid. This time Emma came, "My lady are you awake?" She asked with a soft voice as she pushed the door open slowly.

"Yes, Can you prepare my bath right away..." Ara trailed off as she noticed something.

"Yes, my lady." Emma said softly.

Ara noticed Emma looked a little paler than normal, and her hazel eyes seemed to have a kind of shine to it than before, and she had lost a bit of weight. Ara spoke before Emma could leave the room to get the hot water,

"Are you alright? You look pale... If you’re sick, you can ask Janet to__" before Ara could finish her words, Emma hurried to say, "No my lady, am fine...I’ve been having regular headaches for a few days, but am okay now... I Can do it, my lady." There was a forced smile on Emma’s face as she spoke, she then said again, "My lady...I want to ask for a little favor, please."

The young maid didn’t look herself today, Ara thought, but she replied, "Yes, what is it?" Ara waited for Emma to speak, she could see the maid was hesitating to say whatever favor she wanted.

Finally Emma opened her mouth to say, "I want to visit my grandmother for some days...I wanted to ask for permission to take a few days off from work, ple__"

Ara spoke before Emma could complete her words, "Okay, You can take a week off, and come back after a week. Just make sure to get back to work after you come back, and look after your health if you’re sick." Ara remarked with a soft expression.

"Thank you so much, my lady."

Ara nodded and said, "You can get the hot water now."

Emma bowed with a smile and left the room to get the water, but immediately she left the room, the smile on her face fell. A glimmer shone in her eyes as her hazel eyes completely turned white her pupils completely disappeared. She felt a pain shoot to her head as she grabbed her head with both hands hissing in pain. ’What’s happening to me?’

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After a few hours, Ara finished with her morning routines. Then immediately went to the study room to finish her calculating from the other night, she immersed herself in the papers, the study room was silent, the only noise was coming from scratching her pen on paper.

When suddenly a soft knock on the door interrupted her focus. Ara lifted her head and glanced towards the door, there was no reason for anyone to disturb her when she was in the study room, Ara knew it wasn’t her sister, but called out, "Come in." The door opened with a slight creak, and the face of the person she had been expecting would show up before she left came into view with his stony expression.

Merek bowed a little, "Good day, my lady." He greeted with his deep low voice.

"Welcome merek, Did you get all the information I asked you to arrange?" Ara was no longer curious on how he had infiltrated the mansion.

"Yes, my lady. Here’s the information you asked for...you can take a look." Merek strode over to the desk and held out his report. He didn’t ask why she needed the information. Ara liked that about him.

"Thank you."

Judging by the thickness of the parchment, she could tell there was a wealth of information in it. Ara was quick to uncurl the parchment to see what it was.

Ara skimmed through the content, she took note of everything in it, but a few important details leapt out to her. Merek’s report said that the most powerful person in Findara was..... Queen Merona? ’ How could this be?’

To Ara it was an unexpected revelation, in her past life Ara had little interest in any of the kingdom affairs, until her family’s death, she had no choice but to read carefully through the parts she had no prior knowledge about.

Merona was the princess of Dumbarton kingdom, the richest kingdom among the four lands, it was Merona who made Findara to retain it’s strong imperial grip.

Ara kept reading through the parchment, and something else caught her eyes. The Felstead family.

The Felstead family were also a family who had produced numerous successful generals in Findara, and had become powerful due to the long war. The family name rang a bell in her head, but she couldn’t remember if she had met any of the family members in her past life.

An even more astonishing detail was written below, ’What?’ Ara’s eyes began to pick up speed as she read further. There was a more interesting information that she never knew about before. If you were to rank the most powerful people in Findara. Then queen Merona would be number one, followed by king Fredrick, then the Felstead family. Then lastly...Cornell? Ara could not hold back the shocked laughter. So Cornell was literally powerless at first before the rebellion.

Ara’s head turned side to side as she read quickly. Her aim was to make alliance with the most powerful family in Findara to make Hamon king. At this point the powers of king Fredrick were to be handed over to Hamon the next in line, but with Cornell in the picture, it wouldn’t happen. The only way to keep Cornell and queen Merona in check, would be to gain the support of the Felstead family.

Ara lifted her head up in satisfaction after she was done reading the parchment Merek brought to her. She would never have discovered many of these informations if she had investigated alone. Ara already knew the current king Fredrick would soon die from a heart disease. Which was why she needed to act fast on gaining allies.

"Well done, Merek. You brought me such important information in such a short time, am impressed."

"..."

Despite Ara’s praises, Merek did not show any sign of emotions, "Does the crown Prince know about the information you brought to me?"

"Yes."

Ara was pleased to hear the mischievous crown Prince knew about it. She hadn’t expected the crown Prince to allow Merek give her such important information. Once again she felt fortunate to be the one to hold Hamon’s hand.

Ara arranged the parchment of papers neatly on the desk and continued to say, "I’ll keep the rest of the information and look at it later, but I’d like to ask you to do one more thing for me."

"Go ahead."

"I want you to find out more about the Felstead household."

Merek paused for a moment to think before he said, "It would be hard to get more information about the Felstead’s, because they’re a reputable family, and they have very highly skilled soldiers, it won’t be easy to get any of their inside information."

"Is that so? Then please find out the little you can about them."

"Alright."

Ara smiled faintly at Merek’s succinct reply. Another thought came to her mind, "The grand ball has approached, and we’ll be going to the south today before the day of the ball, will you be nearby?"

"Yes, protecting you is my most important duty." He remarked with no emotions on his face.

"It’s good to know you’ll be at the grand ball then." She said with a faint smile.

"Do you have any more instructions for me?"

Ara was about to nod her head when they suddenly heard a knock on the door. Ara and Merek turned to face the door at the same time, when Anne’s voice rang from outside the door, "Sister Ara, are you in there? I want to talk to you for a moment." Ara and Merek turned to look at each other, ’This is bad.’