Evander had fallen asleep after his injuries were taken care of and had a meal. Prince Lucian was also resting and as Dilara’s request Ambrose had taken a bath and had a meal. He stared at the familiar red and golden double doors before slowly opening them. His office was as messy as he left it, books could be found not only in the bookshelves but also the floors, his desks and sofa, along with documents. He sighed before entering, shortly after Dilara appeared with a cart full of snacks and a stack of papers.

“Your majesty I bring you snacks and also I brought this documents from Nicholas office, they were collecting dust anyways”

Ambrose really wanted to jump out of the window and die, it hasn’t even been a day since he came back and he had a ton of things to do. But with the motivation that the sooner he fixed things, the sooner he could go back to being with Zielle he started to sort the problems.

“Alright let’s do this” He approached the cart and took a couple of papers from the stack

Dilara started tidying around the office while also enjoying the snacks.

“I thought those snacks were for me” Ambrose laughed seeing her eating the snacks

“I need the energy…have you seen the mess you left?” She moved her arms around showing Ambrose the mess in the office “Besides I brought a lot so help yourself your majesty, I can also go get more”

“I was wondering about this…why is everything like this? I’m sure you would’ve cleaned all this long ago”

“Nicholas prohibited the entrance to your chamber and office your majesty” She paused before approaching Ambrose “Arabella sneaked into your room and slept there multiple times…but worry not I changed the bed sheets and burned them” She smiled

Ambrose shook his head with a smile, the little girl with ash brown hair and sparkling grey eyes that used to hide in his closet during storms had grew up to be a very smart girl. They had both changed over time but their friendship remained the same and Ambrose felt relief knowing that.

“Tell me about your little adventure your majesty! Did you try new food? Met new people?” She turned and continued cleaning

Ambrose walked towards the cart “Yeah, I met an old lady named Lyra that made the most delicious soup ever, a young boy named Lorenzo that taught me how to cut trees…I also met a girl” He grabbed a cookie from the cart

Dilara turned around with a smile on her face “Is she pretty? That doesn’t matter...What matters if she made your heart flutter?”

“She’s just a friend, her name is Faelynn Leclair” He poured orange juice on one of the cups “She has the prettiest smile I have ever seen, and the way she tilts her head when she’s confused is so cute”

Dilara raised one eyebrow “A friend huh? Wait did you say Leclair?” Ambrose nodded while drinking the orange juice “Does that mean she’s relate to Duchess Anneliese?”

“Yeah, they are sisters” He put the cup down

“All this time I thought the Duchess was the only daughter of the late count” She murmured “If she is related to the Duchess, she must be very pretty”

“She is...After I solve this mess, I’ll take you with me and then you can meet her”

“That sounds great your majesty! After all I did promise to follow you everywhere even to hell”

He nodded and walked to the desk “Lara has something been happening in the palace lately? It just... it doesn’t make sense that the economy is declining this fast unless the imperial Family of Kavan is involved but still…it’s weird”

“Well…Nicholas have been spending lots of time with the old nobles and in my opinion he’s being foolish, everyone can see he’s being manipulated…he has foolishly given power to those bastards no wonder the kingdom is going downhill” She shook her head

Suddenly the door opened wide and two knights entered the room with one holding the tip of his sword under Dilara’s chin who didn’t even flinch and instead glared at the knight. Then a young man fixing his crown entered and showed a big smile when his amber eyes met Ambrose’s hazel ones

“Brother! So happy to see you” He lowered his hands once his crown was fixed and glared at Dilara “Take that girl out, she’s has been causing trouble since a long time ago”

“Lower your swords, she hasn’t done anyone any harm besides she was only speaking the truth” Ambrose leaned against his desk and smirked “Or am I wrong brother?” He placed a sarcastic tone when he said brother

He motioned for them to lower their swords "Serve the tea and then both of you stand guard outside of the office doors” He walked towards the sofa

Dilara quickly served the tea, and left after bowing, the knights soon followed and closed the door. Now it was only Ambrose and Nicholas on the office, Ambrose turned his attention to the papers in his hand and Nicholas took the cup of tea.

“I’m glad you are back brother” He smiled “I been quite busy without you here”

“Busy? Ah yes you must’ve been quite busy making a crown prince all over the castle” Nicholas started coughing and Ambrose placed the papers on the desk

Clearing his throat, placing the cup down and cleaning his mouth with a napkin Nicholas replied “I haven’t done any of the sort…I actually been busy with matters regarding the kingdom which you abandoned”

Ambrose scoffed “The one wearing the crown is you not me, so anything related to the kingdom is your problem I just came here to help Evander go back home”

Nicholas leaned back on the sofa “Now that you are here, I can have my wedding…I decided to postponed it because I couldn’t have it without my brother” Ambrose rolled his eyes annoyed how Nicholas ignored his words

Ambrose sat on the desk and scoffed “Your people are starving and you are here planning your wedding…no wonder the kingdom is going down”

“I know you will solve all the current problems before my wedding” He smiled "I trust you"

“Didn’t you hear me? I just came here to get Evander back home and avoid war with the kingdom of Kavan”

“Ah! I totally forgot about that…I heard that you released both without my permission” He crossed his arms “I hate when you challenge my authority but because you’ve only just returned I will let it slide”

“Ah how benevolent of you” The sarcasm on Ambrose’s voice made Nicholas grit his teeth

“I came here to talk and come to an agreement but it seems you don’t want to” He stood up “Brother, we are connected by blood so we must have each other’s back no matter what”

Ambrose stood up after seeing that Nicholas was approaching him “Nick…I can’t help you anymore…I’m tired of this” Nicholas stood in front of him

“You really are going to break the promise we made?” He leaned his head to the side which made the crown slipped to the side “What about your promise to mother before she passed?”

“I kept my promises, it was you that have twisted them into some slave contract” Ambrose crossed his arms across his chest “You wanted to be king but you don’t want to take the responsibilities that come with it, and as for me the moment I placed that crown on your head I was free of all responsibilities so I don’t see why I should continue helping you”

“You are being unreasonable!” Nicholas pushed him “It isn’t that hard! You just have to sit in that chair and sign documents, I don’t see the problem”

Ambrose scoffed and shook his head “This conversation is going nowhere…I have things to do before leaving, it was nice seeing you brother” Ambrose started walking towards the door when Nicholas threw the teapot at the door

“You aren’t allowed to leave! I don’t permit it!”

Ambrose walked towards him, Nicholas straighten himself to appear taller but as always it prove to be unsuccessful since Ambrose was taller “Stop giving me reasons to take that crown away from you”

Nicholas smirked “No matter how almighty you think you are…you aren’t capable of doing that”

"You really think I can't?" Ambrose grabbed him by the neck

“You really think so?” Nicholas smirked and snapped his fingers

The knights entered with a wizard, they subdue Ambrose with the help of the wizard's magic and once he was kneeling on the floor Nicholas gripped his jaw and made him drink a potion

“Sleep well my dear brother” His sweet voice sent shivers to Ambrose’s body