CHAPTER 22

This time, if Gabriella wasn’t able to kill the second ranked cultivator, Sahara, she still had another plan. She was going to give Sahara a bad reputation, of chasing her into a brothel, through several guards that she had drawn to her side from the estate. Talon had never thought that the guards would be so taken to a little fourteen-year-old girl and asked how she had done this, but the follower didn’t know, he said they were already on Gabriella’s side before he started to follow her.

With this in mind, Talon replaced all the guards that he was told of and in his control, with new ones.

The news of all this, was truly shocking and he felt at a loss on what to do.

It was coming deathly close to having to choose between his daughters…

He could continue to be ‘blind’, but Sahara’s life was now in real danger! How could he continue to look as though he didn’t know or care!?

Especially since such a scheme is thought of! How could she come up with something so big in the first place!?

But, if he had to punish his daughter, knowing full well of what she’s doing and previously done…

Talon really felt at a loss, if only he had watched from the very beginning!

…This topic was too strong for him to make a decision, so with conflicted emotions, he told everything to his father, knowing he favoured Sahara.

 

His father looked at him coldly, “This is your child! How could you let her act as such! Even having guards to do these bad deeds! Replace the other guards as well!”

“I only didn’t touch them because…”

“Because why!?”

Talon sighed, “They are elder brother’s guards.”

“Just replace them and if he says something about it, tell him it was on my orders! Ah, never would I have thought, a child so young can tell guards what to do! Your daughter has guts!”

Even though he said these words, the Right Minister went silent for a moment. “…I don’t want to kill my own kin for someone of unknown origins, yet, if Gabriella continues…Sahara cannot be harmed!”

Talon knew of these thoughts, because he felt the same way.

“If she is not in the estate…”

Talon furrowed his brows at his father’s words.

Did he perhaps mean to send her to a temple…Or family outside?

“Arrange for Gabriella’s marriage!”

It looks like Gabriella has unintendedly become my eldest son’s p.a.w.n…Getting her out of the estate would be best.

Talon was surprised, but didn’t go against his orders, “Yes, father. I will carry out your orders.”

 

Leaving his father’s study, Talon knew his daughter was not of marriageable age as of yet, that was why he had never thought of this idea.

But, she wasn’t that far away from it now, being already fourteen, and the sooner they send her away, the safer Sahara would be.

Walking into his wife’s main room of her courtyard, he found her pampering Gabriella and suddenly wondered if she had pampered Sahara at all…

Over a small amount of time, Talon came to feel different towards his daughter. When his eyes went to her, he found himself getting angrier and angrier. Searching through his feelings for a short moment, he realized that the pride he had for Gabriella had all but vanished…

“Leave us!” Talon wasn’t able to help saying those words harshly towards his daughter.

“Talon?” His wife said, upset.

Gabriella sat there, still not moving.

With his patience gone, Talon yelled, “Now!”

Celeste put an arm around her daughter in defence, “Why are you yelling at her!?”

Talon sighed. He went to get his daughter’s arms and shoved her into a nanny, “Take her out!”

“Talon!?”

“Father! Why!?...”

 

When his daughter’s yells were finally out of ear shot, he sat down next to Celeste and said, “We are to arrange Gabriella’s marriage.”

Celeste looked stunned, then shook her head, “…No! She’s too young! I don’t want her to leave me!”

Talon took both of her hands in his, “Father has ordered it. We have no say.”

Celeste took her hands away and unhappily looked away from him, “I don’t want too!”

Wanting to coax her, he sat closer and pulled her into his embrace, “Wouldn’t it be better if you oversaw everything? You are her mother.”

He gently kissed her neck, to soften her att.i.tude more.

He was in this plan, of marrying his daughter away, a hundred percent…So that he could save a life that he cared for.

If that meant coaxing this woman for a week, he’d do it happily!

But, it took two weeks to finally get her approval, and Talon was thoroughly exhausted!