Zielle kept touching the pin Ambrose gave her, she sighed and laid back down on the bed. She slowly moved to where once Ambrose was laying down, she could still smell his scent faintly.

“Elle” Anneliese knocked on the door before entering “Are you okay? Nanny Elara told me you didn’t want to leave the bed”

Zielle didn’t answer instead she buried her face on the pillow, Anneliese sat on the edge of the bed and placed a hand on Zielle’s head

“Well if you are going to be like that then I guess we won’t fix your eyesight…that also means you won’t be able to visit Ambrose” She said after releasing a dramatic sigh

Zielle sat up “What do you mean?”

“Well there might be a way for you to regain your eyesight…which if you do, we can go visit Ambrose”

Zielle reached out to Anneliese who gave her her hand “Really?!” Zielle was happy after hearing that

“I said there was a chance…don’t expect too much” Anneliese smiled “Alright, how about we go shopping? You need new clothes and you get to go outside”

***

Zielle was sitting down while Anneliese helped her put on her new shoes

“Ah your grace…are you sure about this…request?” The woman hesitated to annotate the order in her notebook

“Yes, actually I am very gifted when it comes to drawing so I brought the designs I want for the shirts” After making sure the shoes fitted Zielle she got up and took out a notebook from her purse “See how this shirt doesn’t have sleeves? We can pair it with a coat, and then this one have the butterfly sleeve…oh and this one it’s just a regular buttoned shirt” She smiled while the woman looked horrified

“Yes…yes…as you…as you request your grace” She tried to smile but failed

“Also if you could make a couple of dresses with different designs of course but one of them with the butterfly sleeves and another one without the sleeves…that would be amazing”

The woman continued to annotated the unusual requests “Duchess, any…are there more…special requests for the dresses you ordered?”

Anneliese stood up “Yes, don’t make them long…uh…make them either that reaches her ankle or knee as you can see my sister is blind and she might trip and fall”

The woman felt like she was going to faint “Ah…Short dresses?! But your grace…” The woman stopped speaking after taking a good look at Anneliese, she eventually nodded “We’ll make them like you request your grace…Oh, I almost forgot, about her shoes… should we make them flat?”

Anneliese stared at the shoes Zielle was wearing, the pair of heels weren’t that high

“Like the ones she’s wearing should be fine, besides she will always have someone helping her so it shouldn’t be a problem if she wears high heels”

“Yes, alright” She continue to take notes “About the colors, I suggest pastel colors I feel like it would suit her” The lady tapped her lips with the pen

“But wouldn’t it make her look paler?” Anneliese said crossing her arms

While the woman and Anneliese discussed, Zielle couldn’t stop running her fingers across the dress she was wearing. She couldn’t believe she was wearing something so light and soft, and the shoes were so comfortable.

“Yes you are right duchess, but dark colors doesn’t suit her…” The lady squinted her eyes

“What about something in the middle? Not too pale and not too dark?”

The lady smiled “Yes perfect! Alright Duchess I got everything I need” She bowed “Thank you for coming here”

Anneliese took out an enveloped from the inside pocket of her vest “I want you to be my and my sister’s exclusive shop”

The woman gasped while looking at the enveloped “Your grace…I’m terribly honored but I’m afraid I can’t accept…I as you know I also serve the royal family”

“Well that shouldn’t be a problem, you could still serve the royal family but everything we discussed today and the future designs is only allowed to be made for me and my sister yes?”

The woman took the envelope “Yes…your grace” She smile

“Betray this contract and you are dead” She made a swiping motion with her thumb across her neck while smiling

“I understand your grace” the woman bowed

Anneliese nodded and helped Zielle stand up, she held her hand gently “Elle can you walk? I know you aren’t accustomed to wearing shoes like this”

Zielle did feel it was hard to walk, even if the shoes weren’t that tall but she could manage. They slowly made their way out of the store

“Elle, you look so beautiful” Anneliese smiled “I’m sorry if I’m making feel uncomfortable also is the dress alright? I’m still angry she wouldn’t cut it…I get it would ruin the design but…”

Zielle interrupted her “It’s fine…I like feeling like a princess” Zielle smiled

Anneliese hugged her “One last stop before we go to my favorite tea shop”

Anneliese led Zielle to a jewelry store. The man behind the counter stopped doing what he was doing and smiled at them before extending his arms but seeing that Anneliese only stared at him he awkwardly placed his hands on the counter

“Duchess Chevalier, it’s an honor to have you in my store” He glanced at Zielle “Might I ask who the pretty lady behind you is?”

Anneliese smiled “Remember that I mentioned my lost sister? Well I finally found her”

The man nodded “Well I’m glad she’s back healthy, and destiny is truly amazing, I knew something special was going to happen after seeing this jewel” He crouched and started unlocking a vault hidden underneath the counter

“Why you say that Count Garret?” Anneliese sat Zielle on a chair nearby and walked towards the counter

The man stood up holding a decorated silver box and once he opened it, the object inside was a beautiful pink heart necklace

“We found this lost jewel a couple of months ago and just yesterday we finalize the necklace” He slide the box on the counter “The jewel has been around for a decade, it is said that it belonged to a goddess and that’s actually how it got its name”

“Which is” Anneliese couldn’t stop staring at the jewel, it was so beautiful and the details in the necklace were so perfect and pretty

“The heart of the goddess” He said with a smile “This jewel is the only jewel of its kind, so we can say it’s quite rare”

“Wait so you are telling me that this is the only jewel?” Anneliese smiled, this was exactly what she was looking for “Alright, I’ll take it”

Anneliese smile looked quite mischievous which made the count sigh “Ah Duchess Anneliese I didn’t raise you like this…even after marrying you haven’t change one bit, always trying to either start a fight or spark jealousy”

“Well my sister deserves the best of the best” She nodded “Now are you sure there is not another jewel?”

He shook his head “No, this is the only one”

Anneliese carefully picked up the necklace and walked towards Zielle.

“Elle this is my first gift to you” She slowly put on the necklace on Zielle’s neck “What do you think old man?”

Anneliese quickly positioned herself in front of Zielle, who slowly, moved her hands to touch the jewel

“It suits her perfectly…it’s like it was especially made for her” He nodded

“I agree” Anneliese smiled proudly and took out her purse “What do you think Zielle?”

Zielle touched the jewel, it was quite heavy and it was cold but she could tell it was really special especially after hearing Anneliese and the count’s compliments

She smiled brightly “I love it…thank you”

Anneliese was about to take the coins out when the count stopped her “What happened?”

“Consider it a gift, after all you are like a daughter to me and since she’s your sister that makes her my daughter as well”

Anneliese slammed the coins on the counter “No way in hell old man, that’s my gift to her...choose another one” She glared at him

His lips became a thin line before he turned around with a sigh “Sometimes I wonder when I started raising you wrong”

“Mister…are you her father…our father?” Zielle asked softly

“Ah I completely forgot…Zielle he’s count Garret he was the one to raise me so yes we could say he is” She crossed her arms and leaned on the counter “You can count on him when you need help, also he has a lot of money so that too”

He shook his head while approaching Zielle, and placed a bracelet on her wrist. It was made of silver with brown jewels “Call me papa Garret since she won’t do it and never will”

Zielle giggled “Alright…also thank you” She slowly touched the bracelet

“Do you like it? The color is beautiful right?” He smiled  

Zielle’s smiled disappeared “Ah…sorry I can’t see but I know that is beautiful I can feel it”

He stopped smiling and turned to Anneliese “She’s blind?” Anneliese nodded “Oh my poor child” He hugged her

Zielle slowly hugged him back “It’s okay Papa Garret…are you married?”

He slowly pulled back “I was once but since I can’t have children…my ex-wife divorced me but luckily Anneliese came into my life and everything became better”

Zielle slowly moved one of her hands into his cheek and smiled “Don’t’ be sad, now you have two daughters and I will be more affectionate than Anneliese”

He smiled “Ah if only your sister was like this”

“Ugh…anyways we must go it’s getting late”

He nodded and after calling for a carriage, the two young ladies were on their way to the tea shop.