CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
1005 Words
The Kingdom Of Agrippa, 2Weeks Before The Selection…
Breaking News on AWN Today…
It’s been quite a long year since the Kingdom of Sakhalin released the shocking statement about the true royal descendants taking back their rightful place on the throne.
Our sources revealed that the ensue of a fake princess was due to internal conflicts and a secret assassination which led to the unfortunate demise of the former Queen, Her Royal Highness, Ariana Michelle Manton and the concealment of the true royal princesses.
A lot of people are wondering how the royal family managed to pull this off, and it is revealed that before the demise of their Queen no one had seen or known of these triplet births.
On November 20th, last year, the stand-in Princess, Alaia Rochelle Manton who is now known as Alaia Rochelle Vanc passed on the throne to the triplet Manton sisters, and it’s been announced that when these sisters reach the ripe age of 19 the people will get to choose their Queen from the growing three.
But until that preceding time, Prime Minister Rider Grey Knight has been selected as the interim Monarch over the Kingdom.
Onto other news, following the recent rebellion of the Tahan people, King Jaffa has shared his plans to move a few steps ahead in his greed to unite the 8 Kingdoms.
He has sent messages to the other 5 Kingdoms in the form of decrepit bodies to all rulers as a warning for them to make wise decisions by siding with him rather than challenging him.
In other to maintain peace and calm the storm of King Jaffa, the King of Agrippa extended a royal invitation to his eldest daughter to join the selection of Crown Prince.
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I log off the online news website of AWN with a sigh and look up when the sound of sliding doors reaches my ears.
“What about this one ma’am?” The sales lady asks hopefully as she helps Chloe step out of the dressing room.
My beautiful sister is in a red, off-shoulder ruffle midi dress and black strappy 4inch heels.
Our aunt circled her form on the podium and analyzed the dress with a critical eye before turning to the lady with a reluctant smile.
“We’ll take it.”
Beaming, the lady quickly ushers an annoyed Chloe back into the dressing room.
It’s 6:00 pm and all day we’ve been shopping from one high-class store to the next, getting spa treatments, a body massage, and complete make-overs.
Much to the amazement of my sister and me, I passed through the first round of the selections with 30 other girls.
The next stage is to have a local television crew interview me personally so it can be watched by the Crown Prince, who will then personally select the final 10 girls qualified for the last round of the selections.
Currently, I’m wearing a black off-the-shoulder knitted dress with gold sandals and Chloe walks out of the dressing room in a blue, cut-out denim dress and black sandals similar to mine.
I stood from my seat on the long couch while the sales lady starts packing up our purchase, Chloe walks towards me with an expression of irritation and I wrap my hands around her shoulders.
Giving it a soft squeeze in other to calm her down, we make our way out of the store and the driver took our bags as soon as we got closer to the black SUV.
“We’re having dinner with your Uncle.” Our aunt announced after we slipped into the backseat.
Frowning, I turn to her in confusion. “But he said we should head back to the mansion as soon as we’re done shopping, he doesn’t want me tired for tomorrow.”
“There’s been a sudden change of plans, we’ve been invited to dinner by an old business partner of your Uncle’s. We’re going to be dining at a famous Tao restaurant which opened a year ago so behave properly, especially you Chloe.”
Glaring with her arms crossed over her chest, she sticks her tongue out to our aunt when she wasn’t looking and I nudge her in the ribs to get her to stop.
“Now everyone we know thinks you two have been living in Tao for studies, and you two inherited quite a fortune when your parents died. We waited until Mina could finish high school before bringing the both of you back to Agrippa in time for the selection. These couples are incredibly rich and they live their lives based on etiquette and propriety, so at the very least don’t act like street people when you meet them.”
Getting to the restaurant, the valet opens our door with a bow and our aunt steps out by taking the hand he stretched out for her.
I follow not too far behind and Chloe steps out after I do.
Aunt Vicky struts inside ahead of us with her head held high like she owed the place and immediately, the male host greeting guests by the entrance asks for her name with a strained, polite smile. “It’s Victoria Kang, reservation under the Taan’s.”
He did a quick appraisal of his appointment book before beaming. “Of course, right this way ma’am.”
“Talk about a suck-up.” Chloe leans in to mumble and I snicker under my breathe as we followed.
I tried not to be conscious of the people staring at us curiously when we walked past their tables and instead focused on where we’re headed.
The manager leads us upstairs and opens the door of a more private room, inside uncle sat opposite an elderly couple and they all politely stand when we enter.
The couple looks old enough to be our grandparents, the woman standing a few inches taller than her husband in a beautiful brown soutache trumpet dress.
Her grey hair is held up in an immaculate bun and it is obvious that even in her old age, she’s graced with timeless beauty.
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