Chapter 245: Christie Shadowmere with a request.
Mauve’s lips twisted into a small shy smile. The guilt escaped in the form of red on her healthy cheeks that she
scrambled to cover.
The maids that were delighted to share in this new secret could hardly contain their shock. The scandalous
rumored courtship between Lady Mauve Rosewood and divorced Prince Galen Maximus had taken an interesting
turn. A secret kiss!!!
This was the kind of news that had fathers pulling out swords and innocent priests awoken in the middle of the
night to oversee rushed weddings.
"How did you even find out about this? Do you have spies watching me?"
"Do not let a man into your private chambers if you do not want to beca subject of gossip. Also, do not kiss
him by the window. This royal castle is monitored everywhere...." Sigrid laughed at her shy companion who
appeared ready to enter the ground and forever be buried.
"Mama is going to kill me." Mauve cried out tically, throwing her upper body onto the table. "Oh-oh-
oh.....on my grave stone, the words a kiss was her downfall will be inscribed."
"I don’t think so, you are being a tad bit too tic." Sigrid said.
"Oh..." Mauve sat up groaning in the process. "You are right, that is too kind. It will probably be something that
serves as a warning to the girls younger than me, "here lies the fool, she brought shon the Rosewood’s with
her mouth."
Sigrid swatted an insect with a fan. The unlucky insect fell to the table and it was cleaned up by Bella.
"Oh!" Mauve cried out in a broken high pitch voice, "That is how mama is going to swatto death."
"Bring it down Mauve, | am sure a sword will do the job just fine." Sigrid told her in a dull voice that was
somehow filled with laughter.
Mauve responded by pouting and placing her head on the table. "In the old days, fallen women likewere sent
to the abbey."
"You have not fallen." Sigrid couldn't the eye roll. "Perhaps we should discuss that kiss. Was it worth it? Was it
worth being sent to an abbey?"
Mauve raised her head and peered at Sigrid through dreamy eyes that had a twinkle. She looked like a woman
hopeless in love with her head in the stars.
"Letguess, it was magical." Sigrid said with sarcasm on top.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtMauve nodded, giggled and buried her head on the table. It left Sigrid amused. How would Mauve know what a
magical kiss was if she had only kissed one man in her life. Was it actually possible?
"Well...what does the kiss mean? Will he be making an honest woman of you?" Sigrid pushed the cup of
chocolate forward curiously.
Brolin interrupted their conversation, clearing his throat to get their attention. "Lady Christie Shadowmere is here
for you, your highness."
"The ship people! Which boat did she sail here on?" Mauve blurted out.
"That is not how we like to refer to ourselves." A woman's voice joined in before Sigrid could say something to
Mauve about not calling the Shadowmere’s ship people.
Her arrival cas a surprise to Sigrid who was not expecting to mingle with the Shadowmere’s so soon. She
gestured at a chair, telling Christie to sit. Christie first curtsied and then she took a sit.
"Mauve, do not call them the ship people." Sigrid softly told her lady in waiting before turning to their visitor.
"What winds blow you my way Lady Christie?" She could not help herself with the wind joke.
Mauve slapped the table with both hands two times, astounded that she could not call them the ship people but
Sigrid could make a wind joke. Wind and ships went hand in hand!!
Christie smirked deliberately, taunting Mauve with her eyes. "It must be killing you not to crack another bad
joke."
Mauve Rosewood was like a firecracker, when she started going off, talking all sorts of nonsense which people
often found adorable. But...those people were not Christie, she found Mauve as annoying as a weed in a
beautiful garden of roses.
Mauve pouted, seemingly displeased.
"So introductions are not in order, | take it." Sigrid said.
"We have met." Christie said, sending Mauve a dismissive glance. "It is hard to miss Mauve Rosewood in a room.
She is usually the one laughing the loudest, surrounded by the most suitors, bare foot, holding a pastry or
feeding a stray critter."
"This is what jealousy sound like." Mauve commented.
Sigrid observed them both, Mauve and Christie. While there was no blood feud kind of enmity, there was no
friendship either. "You do not approve of her ways."
"| just don’t know if she is genuine or seeking attention. | mean no offense Lady Mauve, | just haven't known
many people so naturally cheerful all the tfor no reason." Christie genuinely said. "You do what you want
without a care of what anyone thinks. Maybe you are right and | am jealous."
Mauve had been sparking with anger when Christie started off but as she wound down, so did Mauve’s anger. In
her mind, she was thinking that it was a lovely day, too lovely to be wasted on engaging in a screaming match
with Christie Shadowmere.
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Sigrid gestured for Lanai to take away the cup of chocolate which was now cold. Lama quickly replaced it with a
new one. Mauve requested for one as well.
"| appreciate your boldness and candidness but why. Why do you want to be my lady in waiting?"
"You saved my family..." Christie started.
Sigrid groaned and shook her head. "That cannot be it, there must be another reason why. If you tellthe
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