CHAPTER 43

“I mean every word I just said now. If you leave now and ride to capital you will be able to save your parents. Now go and leave, don’t ever come back,” she told him very coldly.
“I don’t get what you are saying. Valery what’s going on?” he asked her.
“I’m a cruel woman. If you hurt me one day, I will kill you just like how I avenge anyone who hurt me. I will not marry you and see you every day as if nothing happened between us.
I wouldn’t want you to force yourself to smile fully knowing that I caused the death of your parents even when they were the first who started this. So, I’m giving you a chance to be filial to your parents. Take this bottle and go and save your parents,” she told him and gave him a small bottle.
He didn’t know exactly what had happened to his parents but he knew he had to go and save them before anything happens. She was giving him a chance to reconcile with his family and remove any misunderstandings between them.
She was just being cold so that he will leave her and make up with his parents. Even when she was the one hurting more, she was still looking after him and protecting him like she has always done.
He hugged her tightly even when she was fighting him off.
“I love you and I will always do. You might have done this today but I made a promise to you and I will never break it. I will come back for you even if you don’t want to see me,” he said and let her go.
He left her room and then her hall for his own. He prepared his stuff and got ready to leave. There were just a few days before his wedding and Valery was kicking him out.
He rode his horse out of the mountain and rode for the capital city and when he arrived, he went straight to the palace When his father heard that he was there, he summoned him quickly. He found his father lying in bed and he didn’t look very well.
“I thought you will never come,” he said.
Xavier walked towards his father and knelt down.
“What happened?” he asked as if he didn’t know.
Hs father dismissed everyone and made him to sit down.
“I’m very sorry for the way I acted. I shouldn’t have done what I did. I am the cause of this suffering of mine. I hope that you will forgive me. I should have embraced everything wholeheartedly but I was naïve and didn’t want that woman to take everything from me.
I disregarded your own happiness and let these schemes to continue and now I’m the one dying and not her,” his father confessed and he found tears streaming down his cheeks.
“I thought that it was just a lie but it was all true. You should know that she showed you mercy. If you weren’t the ruler of this nation and my father, she would have killed you and not given you a chance to stab her the way you did.
Because of your greedy and ambition, she broke the wedding. She chased me out of the place I call home. Because she cares for me, she hurt me and gave me an antidote to end your suffering,” Xavier told his father and watched him as he sat upright coughing.
“She gave you an antidote? I thought this had no cure. The imperial physicians couldn’t find it so how come she found it?”
“She isn’t called the Saintess for nothing. She poisoned you so of course she knows the antidote to that poison,” he said and took out the bottle which contained two pills.
He took one pill and gave it to his father.
“She told me to give this to you and mother. I wonder what happened to mother,” he said.
“I don’t know what to say. I’m very ashamed of myself. I’m sorry,” he said but he couldn’t continue being there.
Since his father had taken the pill then he was going to visit his mother and see what was wrong with her.
“I will excuse myself father, I need to go and see mother,” he said and bowed before he left.
He rushed towards his mother’s palace and when he arrived, he heard her shouting. All the servants were outside.
“What is happening?”
“You have to see it for yourself. She is very angry and refusing to eat,” the maidservant said.
“Take me in,” he said and followed the maid inside.
When he entered his mother was smashing things to the floor. She had a bandage on her face and he wondered what happened there.
“Mother, I’m here,” he said and she turned around.
She couldn’t look at him properly so he walked toward her and he touched her.
“You can’t look at me,” she said turning her face away but he stopped her and he removed the bandage on her face and he felt very weak upon seeing what her face had become.
“What happened to you?”
“She came and she did this to me. I’m your mother and yet she destroyed my face,” his mother cried out.
Her face was really damaged. She prided herself for being beautiful and yet at this moment she looked very monstrous. Valery had done it and now he knew what she meant by paying her debts. He wanted to laugh and cry at the same time.
“You are not even remorseful for all the treacherous things you did? I can’t believe that you tried to kill me for so many times and yet you stood in front of me and acted as if you cared. I can’t believe I have you as a mother.
I am really hurt by all you did. Not only did you stop there but even tried to kill her many times. She kept all these from me but I found out in the end anyway. You should support me and love me and not hurt me and sabotage anything I do. How could you be heartless and ungrateful like that?” he asked her fuming with so much anger.