The Echanting Duchess

Chapter 51: Arrival at the Royal City

Three days after their arrival at the duke's residence in the Royal City, it had not been difficult for Atallie to get accustomed to living at the residence.

And for those days, she had been dealing with a few matters at the residence that needed her attention.

For her fourth day of stay at the capital, an urgent letter arrived at her doorstep.

It was none other than the letter from Duke Calex himself.

Inside the drawing room.

"Madame, a letter from His Grace arrived," Lizbeth carefully handed the letter to Atallie, who was calmly sipping on her tea while Lila was attentively decorating her hair with ornaments and pearls.

Atallie looked up and glanced at the letter on the golden tray. Compared to the exquisiteness of the tray, the letter looked coarse and it seemed that it went through weathers on its journey before it arrived at the capital.

There was even a few splatter of blood on the envelope. Even so, Atallie picked it up and waved her hand to the two.

Lizbeth and Lila quietly retreated and exited the room.

"My dear husband, are you this mad? You even painted the letter with blood." Atallie was amused with the obvious temper of the duke that could be seen on the appearance of the letter. A sharp glint shone on her amber eyes as she looked at it.

Atallie took out the letter and unfolded it. The splatter of blood was nothing to her.

Her sharp yet cold stare skimmed through the contents of it. And after reading it, a miniscule faint smile appeared on her rosy lips.

"Are you this worried about me, my dear husband? You even wanted to go right after me even when you were too far a distance away from me."

Atallie folded the letter and put it back in its envelope. She stood from her seat and went towards the open balcony.

"As much as I wanted to keep this letter, I will have to destroy it just in case it creates any trouble," Atallie said. And with that, she fetched a fire stone somewhere and lit the letter until it turned to ashes. It quickly scattered with the wind.

Staring ahead as she watched the last bit of ashes get carried away with the wind, Atallie spoke again, "I must face this situation alone. If not, all your plans will be for naught."

A faint yet dangerous smile appeared at the corner of her pink lips. "After all, if you fail, I will also be implicated. And we don't want that to happen, don't we?"

A knock came at the door that snapped Atallie back.

"Madame, the carriage of Her Royal Highness has arrived," Lila's voice sounded behind the door.

"Her Royal Highness?"
It seems like the princess is truly investing her time and attention on me that she even sent one of Her Royal Highness's carriages to personally fetch me

"Come in." Atallie calmly went back to her seat in front of the mirror as if nothing happened.

Lila entered upon hearing Atallie's command. She was a bit surprised to see the duchess back on her seat.

"Finish up and we will go on our way," Atallie said to Lila through the mirror.

"It will not take long, Madame!" Lila beamed at her and continued working on the ornaments on her hair.

Not long after, Atallie, together with Lizbeth, was already on her way to none other than the Royal Palace located at the heart of Heraldia - the Royal City.