14 Repent For Your Mistake

"But.. I will look at what I can do and talk to his majesty about it." he felt a strange tightening of his chest when he said that but he was a man of honor. He would not force a woman to marry him when the woman looked away and then shook her head.

"That would not be needed. I will take my words back. And request you to give me another wish." she requested when his eyes narrowed, but under so many confused gazes, he did not want to stretch it in an argument, so he nodded readily, promising himself that he would not leave without clearing the matter.

"Then I will ask when the right time comes. I am feeling tired, can I leave, my lord?" she bowed her head when he could only sigh. He knew that even if he would try to stop her, she was not going to listen to him.

He stood there confused as the girl left again with a poignant pain on her face as if she was suffering. But he failed to understand what made her suffer so much when he was sure that he had never hurt her.

"Your highness." marquees William looked at him with confusion when he sighed.

"I do not have any idea about it like you, lord marquees. It would be better that you ask your daughter than me. I have some urgent work to deal with too." he bade their goodbye to the helpless couple and worried brother as he left the palace.

But once he was in the carriage, his eyes sank deeper.

"Ian!" he called his aid who was waiting for him all this time, "you have investigated her, right?" he asked when Ian nodded his head with a solemn face.

"Yes, your highness. I have submitted the file the day your engagement was fixed." he paused, "the lady is a pampered child of the marquees as their first daughter. She is an excellent student when it comes to art and literature. She likes to paint and sketch and her art was too realistic.

But she did not like sword wielding as she thinks it is not for the ladies and other fighting skills. She is average when it comes to playing music but she is an excellent dancer and poet.

She is popular among men and I have heard that she had received many offers for marriage but she had rejected all of them. It is a secret that she had a liking towards you and did not want to marry anyone else even if you were married.

Her father was the first to send you the request of marriage when your wish to marry again was announced. I am sure that the lady liked you deeply and had no one else in his mind." as if reading the thoughts of his master or having the same deduction by the acts of the lady, he also felt that she did not want him because he had someone else in her mind. If that would be the case, then it would be a disaster.

"Keep an eye on her. I want you to investigate that again before our marriage ceremony." the man nodded with a grim face as he left the carriage and it finally started to leave.

In her room, Ana took a long sigh! Their marriage had not only been canceled but it was postponed because of her actions.

She wrapped her hands around her legs and sighed as she stared at the sky from her balcony.

"If you never wanted to change my fate then why did you give me another chance? Was it just to mock me and tell me that I would never be able to escape the calamity and suffer that pain again?" She hid a sob, but it was a short lived victory and tears fell from her eyes as soon as she closed them hard.

"Anastasia! You have killed the child." She heard the dark voice and opened her eyes to see herself in the dark cell again. Color drained from her face! Was she there all this time and all that was just a long nightmare.

Fear took her voice as she opened her mouth but no words came out.

"You have killed the child even when you told me that you did not hate him anymore and this time you will take care of him." the voice admonished him when she shook her head.

"I.." she forced herself to say, "I did not kill him. He was dead when I arrived there and fell in my lap. I just wanted to lessen his pain. That was why I took the dagger out. I swear. I never thought of killing him even when I was cold to him anymore." her voice turned desperate when she did not hear the voice again.

"You killed him from inside even if you are not the one to stab him from the dagger." the voice continued after a pause. "But I heard that you wanted another chance to repent and correct your mistake!"

The voice seemed to soften a bit when she nodded her head.

"Yes.. if i will be given another chance, i will love the child and care for him. I will be a good mother and care for him instead of running behind the duke. I will only be a mother this time." She held the bars of the cell when she felt the light fading a bit and the voice of the woman leaving her again.

"Then prove it! I have given you the chance you desired. Stop running away and fulfill your promise or I will drag you back here for eternity."