????Journey To The
Beauty Land????
(Once upon a kingdom…)
CHAPTER 24
By: Tofunmi Nikky
★★★★★
“Hubby, I miss you.”she cooed, her mouth trailing ki-sses down his neck as she snak-ed her arms around his neck.
Scrunching his face in disgust, Luciano jerked her arms from his neck so hurriedly like it burns.
“Who the hell are you?”he almost yelled exasperatedly, stepping backward and away from her.
Luciano held chuckles from the opposite direction and looked to see Seth palming his mouth, holding in his laughter.
“You can’t just allow a random person in at any time of the day, Seth.”he gro-aned in annoyance at him.
Seth removed his palm from his mouth and smirked at him, shaking his head amusingly.
“Funny how I wasn’t even the one who let her in. Neither do I think it was the guards. And had I not knew better, I would say she kind of appeared in here.”Seth responded, sipping from his whiskey and crossing his legs. He doesn’t know why but he’s loving the show already.
“Is that even possible?”he asked, and when Seth only gave him a shrug, he turned towards the lady,”Look… Maybe you got the wrong place. You can leave now and since you might as well want to use the same method you applied while coming here to go back, I had like it to be soon, please.”
Saying that as tenderly as he could even though he so much want to yell his lungs out at her for ever been here, he strutted past her and started walking for the stairs.
Roselia who has been dumbfounded since and was all the while in shock that he couldn’t recognize her, quickly found her voice seeing as he had started going away from her.
“I’m Roselia, your…”
“Yeah, Roselia. I know you’re sorry about misplacing wherever it is you’re going and instead finding yourself here. Stop being guilty for ban-ging into someone else’s house cause have forgiven you already. You can go now and try to remember wherever it is you’re going on the way… bye”It was so heartbreaking how fast it was for him to quickly cut her off, and jogging up the stairs.
Luciano opened the door to his room and sighed out. He was glad he was able to get the stranger to go back and find who she’s looking for; because he possibly could never be that ‘hubby’ she just called him. He wasn’t even married yet, so she’s got the wrong person.
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Mrs Pavarotti, the Queen, was making her way down the stairs with the chef. The middle aged woman who’s obviously in her early fifties had the queen’s handbag in her hand as they walked to the living room.
It was by then that Roselia was at the door and turning the doorknob, she left.
The queen was could only catch the glimpse of her back. And seeing Seth on the couch laying on his back and perhaps fast asleep, she thought she might be one of his visitors or friends.
So instead of bothering him, she signalled for the chef to let them further and be on their way to the grocery sto-re.
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Roselia stomped annoyingly down the roadside, her heels clic-king so loudly against the tarred road. She was biting so ha-rd on her bottom li-p that it would draw blood anytime soon.
Was this the reason why he didn’t bother coming back home?
Could it possibly be that he didn’t remember anything about their world or her? Or could he be on a pretense?
No, it wasn’t possible. She saw the saw he had stated for her to be out of the palace with any remorse. She saw the look on his face and the way it didn’t hold any type of recognition for her.
Now, instead of been there to tell him it’s time to go home and then they’ll go together; it seems that for now, she’s to first make him gain back his memories. She doesn’t know how long it might take but she’s willing to wait till then.
After all, no other person could have her heart except him. There’s no way she’s loving someone else because she’s already gave her heart to him… She’s willed it to him and she’s not regretting it.
“Okay, I think I have to go back to the hotel and stay there for the meantime.”she mumbled to herself.
But how’s she going to get there?
She was on the thought when she saw a certain flashy car at a distance away from her. The way was coming from inside the palace and Roselia watched as it stopped by the pathway.
Then she saw her…
“My hubby’s mother here in this world… I don’t know the queen of Magadascar was this beauty.”Roselia cooed to herself, watching as the Queen walked majestically towards the car as the palace gate was locked.
‘What if you try and impress her. Make his mother like you and that will make you a step closer to Luciano.’her subconsciousness told her.
But how will she do that? she can’t just jumped before the Queen and start impressing her, right? something has to happen to which she’s going to run to her rescue.
As the Queen opened the door, a certain middle aged woman entered the pa-ssenger’s seat while the driver was already behind the wheels.
The Queen was supposed to get into the car without any hindrance and drive away but Roselia decided to change that.
The Queen got into the car but Roselia made her red dress to get stuck in the car in the process. Then the Queen began trying to shut the door without knowing it was the hem of her dress hindering the car door from been locked.
And before any of her workers could come to her a-ssistance, Roselia had flashed like lightening to the scene.
The Queen was confused when she retrieved the door handle from her, and wanted to question her but stopped when she saw her picking the hem of her dress that was a little bit on the floor up.
“Here it is, your Majesty.”Roselia smiled brightly and bowed slightly, sliding the queen’s dress back into the car and in the proper place.
The Queen’s face glistened at her curtsy and manners.
While Roselia wanted to be a little bit annoyed at the fact that she was also a Queen but in a situation like this; she was bowing for another Queen like her. Moreover, she was in a higher position and possessed a great power unlike her. But instead of scolding herself, she remembered she was doing this for love. Love… Love that is worth it.
“Thanks pretty.”the Queen spoke appreciatively and Roselia nodded.
Roselia pretended to be turning to leave and a smile crept on her face when she heard her call her back,”Take this, dear.”
She immediately flapped the smile from her face and let it drop to the floor as turned to the Queen with an uneasy look. It was the Queen’s number boldly written across the small card.
“Call me, dear.”And with that, the Queen shut the car door and Roselia watched as it was driven up the road.
With a lopsided smile, Roselia looked at the card in her hand. Amused at herself, she jabbed her fist in the air before walking away from the spot.
Now, how’s she getting back to the hotel?
As if on point, a blonde guy parked his car across the street and walked into the house at the opposite.
Roselia hastened her steps and in no time, she was snapping the car’s door opened and climbing into the car. The car key had already appeared in the lock, so she just had to start up the engine.
She would have used her powers and create a tunnel so she can just appear at her room without any stress, but what was life without no fun?
She smiled heartily, played the music, and then sent the car racing at a crazily amount of speed up the road.
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2HOURS LATER….
Sabrina laid on her stomach and on her bed as she did her homework. She adjusted the rims of her reading gla-sses as she scribbled throu-ghthe notebook. Thirty minutes later, she was done with the last homework and was on the last Chemistry solution when she heard knocks on her locked window.
She darted her eyes towards the window and quickly crawled out of bed…
“Who’s there?”she asked, as she got closer to the window. She heard no answer cause instead, the knock came again.
“Holy Mary be my guide!”she did a cross over her head and chest before deciding to unlock the window.
“Arrgh!!!!!!!”A scream emits from her and she flinched back with fright, holding her hammering chest as the person jumped over the window and into her room.
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TBc