Drunkard Becomes the Villain's Step Mother

Versus Pacita 3

Pacita puts the wine down.

She feels relieved and elated thinking how she smacks down a nobleman but still stay alive.

She is happily grinning when Amadeus sat next to her.

Pacita looks at him.

"Want some wine?"

Amadeus sighs and shakes his head.

"You need to tone it down. You cant antagonize everyone."

Pacita chuckles.
Her blonde long hair flutters in the air.

Her eyes that are red are so beautiful it sparkles a bit.

"I cant believe the rumoured Villain will be scared of someone."

Amadeus rolls his eyes.
"Power is not everything. As a noble, we have to maintain elegance and cordiality with the majority."

Pacita finds it amusing.
She giggles loudly.
"Do not...sound like a weakling." She stood up and walks away.

Amadeus keeps staring at her.

He pouts afterwards.
"What do you mean? Who is weak?"

***

Pacita sleeps all afternoon again and wakes up before dinner.
She doesnt need to call.
Amadeus is sitting in the dinning table like a good boy reading a book in his hand

"When its time to eat, you only have to care about the food." Pacita yawns as she said..

Amadeus looks at her.

"A letter from Lawrence family arrive."

Pacita sat down staring at Amadeus.

When Amadeus stops talking, Pacita looks at him confused.
"So?"

Amadeus sighs putting the book on his lap.
"Dont you want to hear from your relatives?"

Pacita almost choke in her wine.
She stares at Amadeus.

'Right...I am not the dancer Pacita..'

She forgot that this body have parents...possibly, siblings. People that can surely guess who she was.

Pacita thinks deeply.
'How to avoid this possible time bomb?'

Her silence made Amadeus understand the Lawrence family.
A daughter was married off to an infamous Duke with a son that will surely inherit the family's wealth.
Of course there is something wrong with a family that allow their daughter to be in that kind of unfavorable situation.
Yet all his doubt was answered by Pacita's silence.

Anyone, especially newly weds, will be extremely delighted to hear from her relatives yet here Pacita was looking gloomy and serious.

"You dont have to reply to them if you dont want to but you should at least received the letter." Amadeus said.

Pacita looks at him.

'Right, that could work!'

"Thank you for your suggestion. I will do that."

'Who cares if they suspect me for not being Pacita? No. Rather than that, they will have no reason to suspect if I cut ties with them!'

Pacita looks at the letter the maid hand over a serving stainless metal tray.

Pacita gulps.

'I cant read or write. How am I suppose to read this?'

Pacita opens the letter and pretend she is reading it.

Then she fold it quietly and proceed in eating.

Amadeus looks at Pacita's uninterested look.

"Is there something wrong?" Amadeus asks.

Pacita closes her eyes.
"Just tired."

Amadeus didnt bother her. Anyways, the content of that letter is already read by him and the butler. Soon the message will reach the Duke.

All they have to do is wait for Pacita if she will do it.

Amadeus has a hunch that Pacita....will not poison him as per the letter. Though he thinks that...he doesnt dare say it.
Because expectation makes one heart aches.