When the banquet was over, Darryl withdrew to his room and so was everyone else.

The day after tomorrow, he will be travelling to the central village with the Chieftain
to arrange the wedding ceremony and he hoped that he would see Xhemin again
and eventually make her his wife. The road back to her wasn’t full of rainbows and
boners, it was one heck of a ride and yet he was wishing destination was worth of
the sweat. This time, he will not let her go.
Darryl was having hard time sleeping as everything overwhelmed him. For the last
two years, all he ever wanted was enter the beautiful Manggan Island and yet here
was, the only thing lacking was Xhemin on his arms.
As Darryl’s thoughts was full of Xhemin, a small knock on the door pulled him back
to his already dark room. He wondered who could be seeking him at this time of the
night, yet he pulled his exhausted self-up toward the door.
“Who is it?” Darryl asked. The chambers in the Somer lands do not have a locks so
even without Darryl’s consent, the sliding door cracked open.
“Hello my dear,” A female voice called and in the darkness and Darryl saw the
silhouette of Princess Wang standing before him. Although it was dark, the windows
in Baruk Tam’s household were big and so the light of the moon from the outside
gave the room a little light, enough for one to recognize people at a small distance.
Darryl was completely surprised with this unexpected visit, but since he was a guest
in the Manggan Island he choose to be casual to her.
“Princess Wang, I don’t think it’s a good hour for you to knock on my door,” Darryl
said in a neutral tone as he stepped back to make a big gap of distance between
them but the princess entered even without permission.

“I know and I’m sorry to disturb you from your peaceful sleep,” The Princess said
with a sweet smile. Although Princess Wang wasn’t as pretty as her other siblings,
she had some features that could definitely capture a man’s attention and one of it
is her smile and tonight, she was wearing that asset to her advantage. “But the
thing between us ran off pretty fast and I thought perhaps we can spend some time
tonight to get to know each other since—“

“Princess Wang hold it right there” Darryl cut her off completely. The words she had
breathed out gave Darryl a hint why she went to see him but as to how she got that
idea, Darryl didn’t know. Nevertheless, he need to explain the thing to her because
clearly she went beyond everyone’s interpretation “I think you had misunderstand”

“I’m sorry. I know your decision to marry me was completely out of duty and
perhaps because you don’t want to say no to father, but I do think that as a couple
to be married soon, we should work things—“
“Princess Wang I’m not marrying you” Darryl cut in straight to the point. He didn’t
like how her sweet expression changed into something else, but he had no choice
but to end her fantasy. The earlier she’ll realize the fact, the lesser it would hurt.
“What are you talking about? You are to marry me, father just announced earlier at
the banquet” She told him surprised of his supposed fiancée’s words. Darryl’s
statement came as a hard slap to her face and right then she regretted approaching
him.
She had imagine earlier at the banquet how they would spend the night together,
perhaps by strolling at the beach under the moon or just inside his chambers, alone,
the two of them. However, Darryl’s sudden rejection teared off all her expectations
tonight and her heart did not only broke into pieces, it was shot dead on the spot.
“You are not the princess that I’m going to marry,” Darryl repeated to make it clear
to her. He had seen how the girl was having hard time accepting the truth but it
must be said to avoid further complications. He had gone through hell to follow
Xhemin, he cannot afford to lose her again just because another princesses
assumed that he was pursuing her. “I don’t know why you come up with that
conclusion as you have many siblings and as I learned from the Chieftain, many of
your sisters is in a marrying age”
“But I am the Highest Princess! I’m have the highest status amongst every girl in
the Manggan Island and most of all I am—“
“But you are not the woman I love,” Darryl told straight to her face “I’m sorry for the
misunderstanding. I made it very clear to the chieftain who I want to marry and that
is not you,”
“Then who is it?” Princess Wang’s frustration made tears rounded up in her eyes.
She had never been in this kind of situation ever before where she had swallowed
all her pride but end up getting rejected. She wondered who amongst her sister was
the lucky one and realized there was only one possible candidate to be the Somer
hero’s love.
It’s the healer—the intruder who had pulled Princess Tang down to a pit and the
roux blooded who ruined all her mother’s plan.
Without waiting for Darryl’s answer, Princess Wang turned her back immediately
away from him. She ran back to her room crying.
Why was the heavens so unfair with her and so favorable to the healer?
The healer had already gotten all his father’s love and attentions. The Chieftain had
given her the first born’s chambers, jewelries and the best of everything and right
then he was also so willing to her the man that she had desired the most at her own
stake too as she will be skipped.
That cannot happen.
She should not watch everything goes to that adopted princess.
She should fight for what she wants.
She must be the one to marry the hero of the Somer lands and not that healer.
With that being said, she’ll find a way that Darryl will end up marrying her and not
that healer.