Villainess Becomes The Knight

The room was well decorated with white and golden curtains and with the array of flowers around. The merry feeling spread as everyone was chatting and enjoying themselves happily. 

Noah climbed down from one side, and moved towards my side. He held my hand and smiled.

I climbed down holding his hand. My eyes were settled on the nobles who could be my target.

"Welcome, my lady, I thought you would not come." said Anastasia, a very good friend of Sophie.

"How could that be? After all, it was Sophie who invited us. She was pleased to hear my reply. This made me sure that Sophie must have asked her to evaluate my behaviour.

"Come let me take you to Sophie and her brother, the main guest of the party." she added in an enthusiastic tone, and I nodded with a smile.

Both Beth and Noah followed me as I crossed the crowd and walked towards sophie.

"Oh, Abigail, you are finally here. I thought you would not be able to make it. Come, I will introduce you to my brother." she said happily as she held my hand and then took me towards the table where everyone was sitting and having a chat. It was filled with only men.

"Brother" she said in a sweet voice and all the men looked at me. 

My eyes followed the intense gaze and I could see William looking at me with strong intensity. From our last meeting, have my views on him changed so I did it feel as repulsed as I used to feel in the past.

"Brother, this is my friend, Abigail Essendson. I have told you about her, right?" she said in a sweet voice and I smiled too.

Though I wanted to beat him, beating him in his own game was more important.

"It is nice to meet you my lord,'' I said with a smile as he held my hand and gently kissed the back of my hand. 

"I thought that you did not like to talk, my lady. That day you were not replying at all" he reminded me of the insult he had faced that day. I wanted to smirk but I just bit my lip as I tried to behave aggrieved.

"I was too stunned with the course of events that day, my lord. Especially when I injured her royal highness. I apologise for my insolence." I said , bowing my head a bit.

He smiled warmly, accepting my apology and agreeing with my answer.

"Oh, I can understand, you must be tired too. I hope that you have time today. Shall we take a stroll and clear the misunderstanding between us" he replied with a proud face and I wondered what was there to clear anyway.

But I nodded my head. "That would be wonderful, my lord. But I hope you can give me some time to meet others too."

"Then I will wait for you, my lady." he said, nodding his head and sitting back on his seat.

"Your royal highness" I bowed in front of the crown prince and he nodded back but he did not even share a glance at me.

He continued having his drink while chatting with others as if he did not know me at all. They looked at me with sympathy or smirk but I was unfazed. I nodded back at them with confidence and stunned them as if they were expecting my red and embarrassed face.

"Shall we go and meet others?" I asked Sophie who looked at me and then at the crown princ with confusion and nodded.

"Why don't you go and meet others? I have something else to do" she added and left me. It was better since I did not want her to hear my every conversation anyway.

"That man is dangerous. You should not go too close to him ``I heard Noah whispering in my ears and I smiled.

"He is a higher noble. I can not stay hidden from him, but why do yuin think he is dangerous?" since Gerard always had an image of fine gentlemen among everyone. He was known for his humble nature and kind personality. Calling him dangerous was something I heard for the first time.

"He is hungry for power. Or else a noble who is in administration, why would he open a store of clothes and do other business. He would definitely take benefit of policies and I would not be surprised if he changed rules for himself too." he tried to say in a low voice but i could feel his emotions, he was trying to hide his anger.

"That is intelligence. Until his actions did not affect anyone, there is nothing wrong in thinking about your benefit. And as long as it is about business.." I tried to face him, "I am going to start one too." I said looking straight into his eyes, making him stunned. 

I walked toward the group who was known for being part of the business family. I have read about a few of them recently. They were the ones who helped in the flourishing of business, like brands in modern times, their name was enough for things to be sold in the market.

"Lady Amayra, Lady Sharron, it had been long time" 

"Oh, lady Abigail. You are talking to us" they asked with surprise and I could only nod to cover the embarrassment. 

"Of course, lady Amayra, i heard that you have been assisting your father these days in work, and lady Sharron had already started taking training of making jewels.'' I complemented both of them to smoothen the conversation.

"Ah, yes, thank you. Lady Abigail. By any chance are you interested in jewels?" They asked the question I was waiting for. 

I nodded my head, "yes, but don't you think that these days wearing heavy jewels is becoming rather difficult. It is so hot and sometimes it would leave itchy and red marks." 

"We do, but not wearing jewels would not be good for our image and our positions."