"Henry… we have a problem."
I frown, "Why do I get the feeling that whatever you're going to say is going to be a huge headache for me?"
Samantha gave me a awry smile, "It probably will."
"Hmm… Alright then stop for a sec, okay." I go inside the kitchen before coming back to the dinner table and setting up two glasses with a bottle of alcohol.
Seeing the setting, Samantha felt confused, "Why are you drinking alcohol?"
"Well… if I'm going to be pissed at whatever you're about to say then I might as well start drinking now." I say, opening the bottle, "You want some?"
She shook her head, "No, I'm going to leave in a little while with the others. So I don't want the effects of alcohol to trouble me."
"Suit yourself." I said pouring some on my glass, "You're leaving too then."
"Hmm? Why you say that?"
"No, it's just someone else I've talked to is leaving tonight as well. What happened today shook everyone to their core it seems." I say, taking the glass in my hand and swirling it, "Nobody seems to have the courage to stay back in their own kingdom's capital in such a bad time."
Samantha frowned at that, "It's not like that. I want to stay too but-"
"I get it, It's Arthur and Ms. Elizabeth that is telling you to go right?" She nodded, "If you really want to leave then leave by tonight because the capital's going to be put on lockdown for some time."
"On lockdown?" She asked, "Was the situation that bad?"
I drink a bit, wetting my sore throat, "You can't possibly imagine, Samantha. Cravic Flameborn…" My face was lost in thought as I glanced at the slowly swirling golden flashy drink in my hand, "He was unimaginably strong. Even with all of our powers combined, we couldn't stop him."
"But I heard about you striking and him falling over the ground hard."
"That was just a fluke, Sam… is it okay if I call you that?"
Samantha had a smile on her face as she nodded, 'He's finally starting to see me.'
"You see Sam, When I or we had all attacked him at that moment, it was just a fluke. We could have only done him that much damage because he had underestimated us."
"He didn't think we would be able to survive his attack… or probably thought that I couldn't pull it off so… it was just a moment of failure from his part." I say drinking even more as the situation at the time became even more clear to me. Read complete version only at NovelHub(.)net
"if he had gone full power against us from the start or didn't turn down his guard at that moment, you wouldn't be here talking with me and probably looking at my burnt out corpse… or there wouldn't have been any corpse to begin with." My vision of what power and helplessness is again seem to cloud me, obscuring me from seeing any solution against such a person.
"If it weren't for her I would have died."
"But you didn't." Samantha grabbed my hand, breaking me from my dark thoughts, "You are here and you are not only alive but in great health too."
"Don't think too much about what would have happened and think about how to make sure something like that never happens again. Think about ways to improve yourself and never look back on the past circumstances." She had a hard look while saying this. Probably thinking back to her own past and overcoming her hardships.
"Thanks for the pep talk Sam, that helped me out a lot."
"Anytime." She smiled as suddenly I have a thought and start to laugh.
"Haha… haha ha." I laugh with a low tone as Samantha smiles at me with a curious look.
"What are you laughing about?"
"Just that… I never thought after what happened that day, we would be sitting here and talking actually."
She smiled, "Yeah, quite surprising how situations bring people closer together huh."
"If that's how you think then, we would have gotten even closer if that cunt leader had temporarily put me in the bed hah." My words made her burst out laughing.
"I didn't mean it like that!"
"Who knows we might have gotten close enough to reengage our marriage?"
"Haha… yeah." Suddenly she looked sideways with a downturn look on her. Something that didn't escape from my eyes.
'Now what is that I wonder?'
"Alright." I put the glass down, grabbing her attention back, "Let's go back a second, you said we have a problem?"
"Yes! Almost forgot about that." Her eyes flashed in recognition, "Your words had subsided them from my mind."
"It's good to know that I was able to make you forget your troubles, even for a moment."
She gave me a decent smile before turning serious again, "I talked to father about our marriage."
"He disagreed with it."
I nod, a notion already in my mind, "I've told you back then, you shouldn't have burned that paper."
Samantha frowned and lightly hit me on the arm, "Don't joke, I'm being serious."
"Hey, so was I." I smile, "Alright then, I'll go to your place one time and tell your father about this myself and get it all sorted out."
"That's not gonna work either." She shook her head, "Father's adamant on this marriage going forward."
"Adamant on it?" I frown, "Wasn't he… I don't know, was coerced into it?"
"That's what I thought too and he was… at one time, but later he changed. I don't why but he changed his mind later and held on to this marriage."
"I know why." My face darkened, "It's father, he has strange pulls on the spectrum of this kingdom so I guess your father got a bit greedy… but I don't understand why he would still want to go with it when my father is dead."
"His powers are no more, he can't help your father in anyway so why then?"
"I don't know." Samantha shook her head helplessly, "I asked him multiple times but he didn't listen."
"So if that doesn't work then, we don't have any other choice but getting physical."
"Huh?" Samantha looked at me with shock.
"No, I don't mean to actually be physical with your father but to be strong ourselves. We'll both disapprove of this marriage and won't commit to it, which I hope will make your father step down."
"So unless he has some kind of card hidden on him, we will win." I say and look at Samantha to see her looking away in guilt.
"He doesn't have a hidden card, right?"
"Sam… are you hiding something from me?"
Samantha turned after a while and had that wry smile on her again, "You know when I said that my father and your father had the marriage document?"
"Yes… and you burned down mine."
"…Yeah… turns out my father gave his part of the document to the royale family when I set out to 'change your mind'. He gave it to them as a show of trust that even if I do something wrong, both of our families will commit to it."
"And he also said if I keep on trying to put this off then he will marry you to my sister."
"Your sister… you don't have a sis-" My confused smile quickly turned cold as I realized which bitch this bitch was talking about.
Well… fuck me! This wasn't in the damn novel!