"How can you ask from me such a thing? I will not say yes to such a proposal!" Maru's voice rang throughout the duke's manor, her voice laced with contempt for the duke.
"Cinderella announced her engagement to the king of Selene, it is time we attend her birthday ball and startle her with your reappearance." Paris lighted up a cigar and placed it on his lips, expertly blowing out smoke afterward.
"You just said yesterday that she wanted to dispose of me, now you want me to meet her. What has gotten into you?! Tell me!" Maru felt her anger bubble up from deep within her.
"I am saying rather than looking like you are planning to take the throne away from her. We should go there and expose you to your allies. The kingdom is divided between you and her camp, and your disappearance has cau
