Chapter 87: Chapter 87: A Neglected Princess


    Swan''s body stiffened.


    "Y-you don''t need to promise me that. It''s not good to make a promise you can''t fulfill," Swan said.


    Gale''s lips thinned, but he said nothing as he simply grabbed Swan''s wrist and forced her to keep her palm on his bloody cheek.


    Gale closed his eyes as he wanted to feel her touch, and just as he expected, Swan truly had the magic touch that made him feel at ease.


    Just one touch from her was enough to assure him that his feelings weren''t fake.


    He truly wanted her to be his destined one.


    "You should rest. I know you haven''t slept since yesterday," Gale said. "I''ll go to my privateke to wash up. We can rest together after that."


    "Mm... okay..."


    Gale let go of her wrist and jumped off the window, heading to the privateke to wash up the filth on his body.


    Meanwhile, Swan returned to her bed, and it didn''t take long for Gale to return with a slightly damp body, gently resting next to her and embracing her from behind.


    Gale sniffed her hair, and then her nape just to make sure that he wasn''t mistaken.


    ''No, this feeling is real. Her scent and everything about her makes me feel at ease. She is everything I want as a mate, but she is not the Goddess'' daughter...''


    Gale was angry at the circumstances that forbade them from being mated for life. ''Doesn''t matter. We will be together in the end. All I need is to find my true mate first.''


    Gale began to recall all of the human kingdoms that he visited before, and there were only two kingdoms that fit the requirement from that white rabbit; Holy Achate and Sacred Rianel.


    They were neighboring kingdoms from the north, and both had a strict religion built inside their system. He knew that the church was the second highest order after their King or Queen.


    Despite that, Gale had never heard of them having a Saintess. The church was nothing but a ce of worship, even the church between themon folks and the aristocrats was separated, something that a Goddess'' daughter wouldn''t allow.


    ''Swan must have a better understanding about this,'' Gale thought. Thus he checked if his beloved was already sleeping, only to find Swan''s body stiffened when he leaned in and kissed his cheek. "You haven''t slept, huh?"


    "S-sorry, I''m not sleepy anymore," Swan muttered. "Y-you should be the one to sleep. You just went on a long journey just now."


    "I don''t need rest. I just rested with you because you make me feel at ease," Gale chuckled. "Though, I do have something in mind right now, about your kingdom."


    "M-my kingdom?" Swan had been worrying about this. After all, the old doctor said that her leg wasn''t treated properly when it was first fractured. "W-what do you need to know?"


    Gale paused momentarily, trying to find the correct words so as not to make his timid wife even more defensive.


    "Does your country ever have a Saintess?"


    "A... saintess?" Swan was in deep thought for a while. She didn''t have much knowledge about what was happening outside of the pce grounds. But she had


    heard tales from the maids and read some old fables about Saintess.


    Thus, she replied, "Uhm, not that I


    know of. I''ve never heard of


    someone being appointed as a Saintess either. We do have an old tale about Saintess, though. It is said that an angel will be born in this world to cleanse the evil, and then


    will return to heaven after her task


    has been finished."


    "Has there been any notable Saintess, at least a name, since the past hundred years?"


    "I-I''m sorry, Gale. But I don''t think we have ever had one for more than a century.


    Or else, there should be a painting of her somewhere in the pce," Swan replied.


    "How about the Rianel Kingdom?"


    "I think it''s the same. Holy Achate and Rianel had been together side by side for centuries, but I have never heard of a Saintess before, Swan Said as she recalled all the conversations between the Queens and Princesses from both kingdoms. "Why are you asking me this?"


    "It''s nothing," Gale didn''t want Swan to suspect a thing. So he quickly shifted the topic. "And about your leg. You know that Matoa is a potent doctor. He is the best doctor that the wolf pack has. So, tell me, why didn''t your parents help you back


    then?"


    "I—"


    "Don''t even try to say he is mistaken," Gale emphasized.


    Swan was trying her best toe up with something to cover the truth, but once she discovered she had no way out, she simply murmured, "T-they didn''t like me enough..."


    "Didn''t like you enough? But you are


    ???


    THE Royal Princess of Holy Achate! Why would they not like you enough? Gale began to raise his voice@ithout him realizing it. He had


    a rough guess when he first met Swan in the Pce because she seemed a bit too thinpared to her little sister.


    But back then, it was her mother, Queen Anastasia who told him about Swan''s leg and how she got so depressed that she locked herself inside her room, barely eating because of grief.


    At that time, he simply took it at face value because those words came out of Swan''s mother''s mouth.


    But now...


    "Answer me, Swan! Why didn''t they treat your leg?!"


    Swan''s body was shaking out of nervousness. She wasn''t sure how to tell the truth. Obviously, she shouldn''t tell Gale that she was merely a whore''s daughter, because he would feel cheated for loving a dirty woman like her.


    At the same time, she also had to answer his question.


    Left with no choice, she muttered, "W-when I was born, my mother didn''t like me very much. She prefers Aria more than me, and myte father is indifferent. So I... I just spend my time inside my room, even after I fractured my bone after that fall."