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♛ Chapter Five♛

Back in Amaryllis, trouble was brewing stronger than before. 

No one knew that the royals had left, they just thought they were in a family meeting or something. 

Prince Nathaniel Ferguson, sat on an old medieval-style throne, deep underneath the palace in the old abandoned dungeon. 

He ran a hand through his black hair, his hazel eyes focused on a scroll in his hands. "My plan is going perfectly. Soon the royals will have no idea what hit them and I can take the throne." He declared with pride lacing his voice, a wide smile on his lips. 

His daughter let out a huff moving her creamy blonde hair to her back. Her hazel eyes were focused on her father. "Don't you mean I will take the throne?" Princess Victoriana "Tori" Ferguson pointed out flipping through her magazine as she laid out on a chaise lounge. 

"Yes Tori, you shall be crown princess and take the throne." Nathaniel corrected himself, waving his hand around the air in dismissal. "I'll only be there to help you when you need me."

Tori smiled, glancing over at her father, closing her magazine, and setting it down beside her. "Father, you look like someone rained on your parade." She asked, standing up from the chaise lounge.

"Why don't you smile a little bit for a chance? Or even take a break? You've been at this for years, waiting a little while longer won't make such a difference." She suggested, walking over to him, she sat down on the armrest of her father's chair.

Nathaniel simply raised an eyebrow at his daughter's words. "How can I smile at a time like this? I have to make sure that my plans fall into place at the times I planned or else I will have to start from scratch. You have seen how long it took me to come up with this." He explained, twisting his signet ring around his finger.

Tori frowned, rolling her eyes, glancing at her nails. "Still, I don't understand your whole idea about getting rid of your sister and her family when there are other ways of going around it." 

Nathaniel snapped his head up from some papers and looked over at her. "And where on earth could you possibly have heard that? I never told you any such thing." He asked defensively and skeptically eyed her for her reaction.

Tori rolled her eyes pushing herself off the table and resting her hands on the table. "You don't have to say a word. I've eavesdropped on your conversations. I have to keep up to date on what is going on. I may be your daughter and I may be a princess, I still think I ought to know what is going on since I will be ruling." She pushed her hair behind her ear.

Nathaniel picked up a book he had given her a million times to read but she left it laying. "You should stick to your royal studies and stay out of this. This is not your game, Tori, it is mine. You should be preparing to rule the kingdom, not trying to meddle in my work." He placed the book in front of her.

Tori picked up the book and walked over to her chase lounger, sat down and she set it on her lap. "Father, I wasn't meddling in your work. I respect you enough to know my place in certain matters." She told him, opening her purse and setting her mirror and lipstick on the book. 

Nathaniel sighed, his daughter was much like his wife. "Just please stay out of adult issues." He asked, waiting for her to remain as innocent as she possibly could. 

Tori opened up her lipstick after she opened her mirror and looked into it. "What if I don't want to be crown princess?" She smiled before reapplying her lipstick, which was more or less fixing the ombre pink and red she had done that had gotten messed up.