Chapter 5: Company
At Genevieve’s
Genevieve and Jason had just come back from the boutique where they just got Genevieve’s coronation gown.
For Genevieve, Jason is just bored and is bothering her.
For Jason, Genevieve is too indecisive when picking her gown.
Let’s just say they were not happy.
“Okay, when are you going back?” Genevieve asked exhausted of Jason, all she just wanted is to shower and sleep, it was 8pm already.
“Nah, not yet” Jason smirked.
“But I want to sleep, I’m tired. Aren’t you tired?” Genevieve whined.
Jason moved closer to her causing Genevieve to shift back until she was pressed against the wall behind her, Jason went ahead to trap her blocking her way.
“Let me go you perv!!” Genevieve yelled after realizing the position she was in.
“Don’t lie that you didn’t enjoy it” Jason wiggled his eyebrows. Genevieve closed her eyes, folded her arms and turned away from him.
“Of course not!!!” Genevieve yelled and opened an eye.
Jason sighed.
“This is the height of it. I’m leaving, have a good night rest” Jason walked away.
Genevieve breathed a sigh of relief and went straight to bed. She was sure she had more work the next day.
At Debby’s:
Few hours has passed since her parents left and now she was done with all the documents she asked to send to her room.
It was 12am in the midnight and she wasn’t feeling sleepy. She felt lonely.
She decided to go to the swimming pool, she really loved swimming, she changed into her swimwear, which consisted of a pair of complete bikini, and packed her braids into a doughnut style.
After swimming for a while and getting tired, she went up to the bar and grabbed a bottle and a Champaign glass cup and sat on the longue, enjoying her reflection in the water.
She didn’t notice Leon, her butler walking in until her called her.
“Your highness, King Ashton from Belgia is here to see you” Leon bowed.
“Where is he?” Debby asked.
“I kept him waiting in the living room of your suite, your highness” Leon replied.
“Bring him over” Debby said and went to wear her robe to at least have some decency when Ashton arrives, no need to cause something she might not be able to take.
Debby wondered why Ashton came in the middle of the night.
“Hey Debby” A quiet voice called from behind, she turned to see Ashton standing smiling shyly.
“Hey Ashton. I’m surprised you’re here, it’s twelve thirty” Debby asked.
Ashton sighed and walked over to where Debby was and sat beside her.
“So how’re you doing?” Ashton asked staring at Debby.
Debby stared at him for a while before staring at her reflection in the water.
“I’m fine…I guess. Just a little lonely and stressed” Debby replied honestly and took a sip from her glass cup.
Ashton still kept staring at Debby. He really didn’t have anything to say. He couldn’t sleep and the next thing he knew was that he was in his private jet on his way here. Like his body moved automatically.
“So why’re you here?” Debby asked
“I couldn’t sleep so I decided to come keep you company” Ashton smirked.
“How’re you so sure that I’ll be awake by this time” Debby laughed.
“Because you’re a night owl…I know you Debby” Ashton said and started taking off his shirt to reveal his well-defined muscles. Let’s just say he has been working out and Debby is liking the view. She turned away so as to stop herself from staring.
The next thing Debby heard was splash of water and saw that Ashton was already in the pool.
“So, what’s going on?” Ashton asked swimming to Debby, he was only in his shorts right now.
“Did you find any lead on the previous King” Ashton asked. Debby sighed and decided to go in for another round.
She dropped her glass, took off her rope, revealing her perfect smooth skin in her swim trunk and climbed into the pool.
Ashton stared at her as she delicately climbed into the pool. He doesn’t know how much longer he can take being her friend.
They’re pretty close. To Debby, Ashton was her best male friend, they’ve even had swimming contests before which Ashton ends up always beating Debby but this night was different, something else is here.
“Well…” Debby went on to answer Ashton’s question.
“I found the cause of his death and his daughter, but I didn’t find out who killed his family” Debby said.
Ashton looked up above.
Debby swam over to the edge of the pool and sat there, this time without her robe, poured wine into the two glass and gave one of the glass to Ashton who was still in the pool.
“I am suspecting Williams and Velendez” Debby said after taking a sip of her wine.
“So how’s Belgia going, I heard the King of Mkrium brought a proposal for you to marry his daughter” Debby asked and Ashton smirked.
“That’s more about me than Belgia Debby” Ashton smirked.
“But I’ll answer your question, I declined him, someone already took my heart. Plus only God knows what he’s planning to gain from the marriage.”
When Ashton said his heart belonged to someone else, Debby felt a small pang of pain in her chest.
She was beginning to feel tired, the effect of the day beginning to wear on her plus she thinks the wine added to it.
Ashton sat beside Debby, smiled at her and looked at the beautiful pool in front of him.
Debby rested her head on Ashton’s shoulder and within few minutes dozed off.
Ashton realizing that the weight on his shoulder has gotten heavier turned to see that Debby has slept.
This isn’t the first time doing it, she doesn’t sleep early but wakes up early. She spends sometimes her break sleeping, usually on Ashton’s shoulder claiming it was comfortable.
He used her robe to cover her so she won’t get too cold when she wakes up and decided to enjoy the scenery for some time.
Few minutes after, Ashton noticed that he had almost dozed off and for them not to wake up at the other side as they died in the pool because they slept, he carried Debby bridal style to her room.
On his way there, Debby woke up and was staring at him as he kept carrying her. She didn’t want to leave this position at all and she was too tired to do anything so she slept back.
Ashton laid her on her bed and covered her with her blanket. He then went to the bedroom opposite hers in her suite not caring about anything, jumped on the bed and off.
The next morning
Someone knocked at Debby’s door waking Debby up.
She pulled herself out of the robe and went to open the door to see Leon, her butler standing at the door.
“What do you want?” Debby asked itching her eyes to force herself out of her sleepy state.
“I’m sorry to disturb you this early morning but the Prime Minister refuses to leave without seeing you and is causing ruckus outside” Leon bowed.
Debby sighed, went to change into a long sundress and came out of her room.
“Take me to him” Debby said and Leon nodded.
Leon led Debby to where the Prime Minister sat.
“Good morning your highness” Prime Minister stood and bowed the moment he saw Debby.
“What is the reason you’re here?” Debby asked sitting on the couch and looking pissed at the Prime Minister.
“I’m so sorry your highness for bothering you this morning…” The Prime Minister said.
“What do you want?” Debby asked.
“I need your help, Williams and Velendez framed me, all that happened was not me.” Prime Minister said, immediately, all the trace of sleep left her eyes.
“I am sorry but I cannot help you in this case.” Debby said and rose up, about to return back to her room.
“How about you use AROSA to investigate if I’m saying the truth?” Locke, the Prime Minister quickly suggested seeing Debby was about to go back to her room.
Debby stopped in her track to look at the Prime Minister.
“How did you know about AROSA?” Debby asked.
“I’m the previous king’s illegitimate brother, you can confirm from Mia” The Prime Minister said and smiled sadly.
Debby couldn’t believe it, she sent for Mia immediately.
Few minutes later Mia arrived in her pajamas and was very surprised to see Debby pacing around and her uncle sitting on the couch trying to calm Debby down.
“Your highness, you called?” Mia asked.
“Is he your uncle or not?” Debby asked.
Mia turned to her uncle if it was okay to reveal his secret or not. He nodded as a go ahead.
“Yes, he is” Debby stopped where she was and turned to face both of them.
She tried to calm herself, this is getting complicated.
She picked up her phone and phoned Gunther, the head of AROSA.
“Come to the castle now!” She didn’t even bother to wait for his response.
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received Weekly Power Status
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