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-Sweetpea

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I woke up the next morning to the sun shining in my face, I had a deep dreamless sleep that I very much needed. My body felt well rested, and most importantly my mind as well. I savored this moment of peace as I had no idea how long if would last before it would escape me.

I turned to the door once there was light knocking that startled me.

"Come in." Chrysta came in with a tray of breakfast, I realized she had been bringing me meals without me ordering. I knew it was either Dr. Richard or my father who ordered her to bring me my meals to make sure I ate.

'Father?' I found myself thinking of as a father, I felt stuffy and guilty at the same time. I had never had that in my life, and I felt guilty for thinking of someone else's as mine.

"I brought you your breakfast Miss." Chrysta gently set the tray in front of me gently. I noticed how she set out the pills for me to take once I'm done, on the side of the tray.

While I ate I began to think of ways to make a deal with Axel, I knew one thing was that it had to have something for him in it. He would not even give me the time of day if I did not have something to give him.

I did not know what to offer him, after he met Thea all of his ambitions were washed away with his obsession to have Thea. The one thing he really wanted before he met Thea was a certain ring leaders identity, that is what led him to come to the empire and eventually meet Thea.

All I know was that he wanted the ring leader dead. For what reason I do not know, but what I did know was the ring leaders name.

Fredrick Quien.

He ran one of the largest slave market, and human trafficking rings. He was discovered by the marquess and he was arrested while the people were saved. Fredrick was arrested right before the war happened, where Axel forgot all of his ambitions to have Thea and no longer cared to have Fredrick's head.

I knew I was dealing with a dangerous man but it was a gamble I willing to take as it was a choice between certain death and slim chance of survival.

Axel first comes to the empire as a guest during the debut under the pretext of looking for a suitable empress, but he really came following the trail that Fredrick left behind.

I just needed to stop Axel from becoming obsessed with Thea, if Axel met his downfall so would I.

I just wanted to survive and if I had to become a villainess in every sense of the word I would. For now I could only hope to make a deal with him before his obsession with Thea and somehow prevent it.

I began to wonder if the peace of last night was the calm before the storm.

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The hooded girl crept through the shadows into a ware house. She quietly made her way to a wall with a shelf holding different jars of unknown liquids. The girl pulled forward a certain set of jars before the shelf began to twist open to show a dark and gloomy hallway.

As the girl took a step into the hallway the shelf began to twist closed. She hurried to the room at the end of the hallway, she knew her master would be upset if she was late. As she arrived in the room lightly lit with scattered candles she saw a man leisurely sitting on a sofa. The man had a suffocating sense of dignity surrounding him.

He slowly lowered the hood on his cloak to reveal a young man with golden hair that seemed to glitter in candle light and lilac eyes that swarmed with intensity.

His face was warm and inviting, but she knew better. Under that warm and welcoming facade, he was ruthless to those that opposed him. She always felt intimidated from his smiling face, it was never because of his smile but because that smile never seemed to reach his eyes.

They were always swirling calculative thoughts.

"Now, what interesting thing do you have to tell me." If anyone heard him they would thing he was being warm and sweet but she knew better. It was a threat that she should have information that should please him, she felt a cold sweat begin to form on her back.

"The Miss is different from the rumors, the rumors call her hot headed, vain, rude, and idiotic. She is very calm, humble, warm, and smart. She even studies contrary to the rumors. She seems to always take notes in a foreign language I have never seen before. At first I did not think she was suspicious of me but she concealed it well. I do not know what made her suspicious, but she is wary of me. There seems to be something wrong with her health but only the doctor, butler, and duke know. They always send people out of the room, and the duke accidentally slipped up letting me know there is something wrong. It seems to be either life threatening or could ruin her reputation. I found they scheduled a audience with the emperor in two weeks time." The girl reported all that she knew to her master. She flinched slightly once he started laughing, his laughter, although heavenly was sinister and gave her goosebumps.

"Well the rose seems more interesting than I thought. Her thorns aren't just for show after all." He said with an unknown glint crossing his eyes.

"Go, continue to watch. Report anything that seems suspicious. Don't give her a reason to be more wary." The girl quickly left the room from a different passage than she entered with.

The man was left in the room alone, staring into empty space with an amused expression.

"Ah my sweet rose, what should I do with you." He said with a sinister tone before standing up to leave through another hidden passage while pulling his hood back up.