Tempting Fate

137 Chapter 137: The Castle Tour

“I’ve been looking for you for a while. You’re here.”

Emy and Devin turned to the newcomer. Reed approached Emy, who was slightly stunned by Reed’s elegance in his clothes. He’s so handsome, like the prince in a fairytale. Reed didn’t smile and just reached for Emy’s hips and kissed her on the lips. He caressed Emy’s cheek and slightly pulled her to look up.

“Are you not hungry?” Reed asked.

“Oh...”

“Soldier,” Reed said. One of the four soldiers who were there immediately approached. “Tell the kitchen servant to prepare food for the queen here in the library.”

The soldier immediately nodded and bowed and quickly turned and left the room. Reed looked at the book on the table.

“You’re reading...” Reed said.

“Yeah, and it’s about humans from the perspective of a demon,” Amy said, giggling.

“You can be a demon, do you know that?” Devin asked.

.....

Emy turned to Reed with a frown. “Is that true?”

“It’s true,” Reed said.

“Why don’t you tell her what she has to give up, so she knows...” Devin said.

Reed looked annoyed at Devin. The man ignored him. Instead, Devin chuckled and continued to eat the apple.

“Sacrifice? What does it mean?” Amy asked.

“You don’t need to know that. I know you wouldn’t want to be a demon.”

“Did you know, Emy, we demons have been living for hundreds of years?” Devin said again.

“What? Seriously?”

“Guess how old I am?” Devin said, smiling.

“If you live hundreds of years maybe you’re 3 hundred years old?”

Devin chuckled. “I’m five hundred years old. Reed is half a year older than me.”

Emy turned to Reed and then touched his cheek. “You seem like a 25-year-old hot guy.”

“And did you know that...”

“Devin, will you stop?” Reed said as he held Emy’s hand on his face.

“Why? I’m just feeding her information.” Devin said. “Don’t you want her to familiarize herself with things in this realm?”

“I want to know what’s going on here in your realm. I’m your wife, so I need to know your background.”

“I should be feeding you the information you need, not him,” Reed said.

Later, the soldier he ordered came and served food on the table. The three of them sat down afterward.

“Call the former king, and he will come and eat with us,” Reed said.

His soldier immediately followed. Reed helped Emy to sit before he sat next to her. Devin was on the other side of the table.

“Why is there so much food?” Devin asked.

“The queen must eat,” Reed said. He had been irritated with Devin for a while.

Later the former king came, and he approached them smiling.

“How’s your sleep, my queen?” Eldron asked.

Emy was not used to being called by that name in that place. Even the former king bowed to her, and she felt a little embarrassed.

“I slept well...” Emy said, then she looked at Reed. She didn’t know what to call the man.

“What do you want the queen to call you?” Reed asked his father.

“Where she’s comfortable.”

They started eating, and they were just quiet. There were also a few minutes of silence at the dining table. When Devin noticed that Emy was a little uneasy in the silence, he broke the silence with everyone.

“Is the demon who planned to slay Emy dead?” Devin asked.

“They’ve caught,” Eldron said.

“They?” Devin frowned. “You mean there were many people who tried on Emy’s life? Their guts.”

“I have punished them,” Reed said.

“You just punished them? You should’ve killed them.” Devin said.

“Emy is human, and we are demons. We are different types of demons. And we elites are more capable of thinking properly than them. Also, why are you interfering with my walk in the palace?”

Emy and Eldron felt the tension between the two. Eldron immediately separated Reed and Devin. “You two have stopped. You’re still like children. You’re shy of the queen. Son, remember your wife. You shouldn’t worry her.”

Reed took a deep breath and faced Emy. “It won’t happen again.”

Emy didn’t say anything, and she just looked at Reed, then she glanced at Devin.

After eating, Eldron took her around the palace while Reed and Devin had to leave the palace. Emy was surprised to see Becky in the castle as well.

“Becky!” Emy greeted Becky with a smile.

“How are you, Emy...” Becky said.

“Hrmmm...” Eldron said.

“My queen, how are you?” Becky asked again.

“I’m fine,” Amy said. “Dad is taking me for a tour of the palace.”

“Dad?” Becky glanced at the former king, and he just nodded. “Ah, I will accompany you while the king is away.”

“Is that so?”

Emy, Eldron, and Becky continued to tour. They reached the top of the palace. The soldiers were even surprised to see them. The former king just smiled and signaled to let them go. From their standpoint is the vast land that, if it were in color, would look very beautiful, but it is regrettable because of the dark sky and the black plants and trees. Emy can also notice black smoke surrounding the entire palace.

“Where are Devin and Reed going?” Emy asked.

“They have a war to go to that they need to supervise. Reed won’t be fighting, so don’t worry.” Eldron said.

Emy walked back inside the palace. Eldron and Becky followed her.

“Don’t Devin and Reed get along? They always argue.” Emy asked Eldron. Becky stopped and distanced herself from the two while talking.

“Ah, because Devin is mischievous and funny, that’s why Reed can’t get along with him, which is the opposite of his personality. But they’re on each other’s side in everything.”

“If what you say is true, why doesn’t Reed trust Devin?”

“Devin wanted the throne for a long time, but the only ones who can inherit the throne and the kingdom are the firstborn children. Devin can’t be the king since he is the child of my second brother, but I am the firstborn. And because I am still alive and in Reed is the right age to inherit the throne.”

“You mean if you or Reed die, Devin inherits the throne?”

“Yes, but we’re not just talking about death. If Reed willingly gives the throne to Devin, then maybe Devin will be the king, but we know that’s impossible. And the trust talk just happened. It didn’t go well in the last war for Reed; his soldier died except for him and Maria, whom we met in the forest a few days later. We all know she died with the others.”

“What happened in that war?”

“That’s what I’m not sure about, but that war was on the spot. Reed wasn’t ready for that to happen. The coronation hasn’t happened for him, and he still hasn’t been presented to be king. Devin is now the reigning monarch if he perished in the conflict.”

“You mean Reed distrusts Devin?” Emy asked. “Because he’s the only one with enough reason to want Reed to die in the war?”

Eldron nodded. “But Reed hasn’t been able to prove that Devin was the one who did it. I can’t blame my son for the damage that battle did to him. Reed doesn’t tell a lot, but as his father, I feel what he feels .”

Emy didn’t speak. Maybe Reed had told her that before, but since she couldn’t remember everything, it was as if she was still groping and eager to meet the man who slept next to her, the one she had sex with at night and always protected her.

“I just want to ask, my queen, don’t you remember Reed?”

Emy stopped walking. “My mind doesn’t remember him, but my body and heart know him.”

“Your memory will return when you become a demon like us.”

“But Devin says I have a sacrifice to make.”

Eldron nodded. “There is.”

“May I know what that is?”

“It’s not time for you to do that. Don’t think about it.”

“But I want to know. There’s nothing wrong, right?”

Eldron shook his head. “You talk to Reed about that. I don’t want to give you the wrong idea because I don’t know how to be human.”

Emy didn’t speak.

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Meanwhile, Devin and Reed are riding a skeleton horse. They must travel to their country’s border to discover what happened and why there was a conflict. They can hear the noise of the demons that are there. The group of Reed and Devin immediately stopped not far away. They can see how demons fight. Because everyone was devouring each other, the black liquid was all over the place, and the demons’ shattered bodies muddled with the air.

“Let’s just let them kill each other,” Devin said.

“Just let it go?”

“Why not? They’re fighting over something pointless. And one more thing, I don’t understand why we have to go to see them here. We just wasted our time. We shouldn’t have left Emy in the palace; you know someone tried that you are by her side in her life. What if we are not by her side like now.” Devin said. “Didn’t you think that maybe we were kicked out of the palace because someone wanted to do something bad to Emy while we were gone?”

“You really shouldn’t be king yet, Devin,” Reed said. “The realm will fall if you become king.”

Reed turned his back on Devin and started walking back to the palace.

“What?” Devin asked as he turned the horse back and followed Reed. “I can be a great king and might even be better than you.”

“You’ll never be king, Devin. Remember that.”