Whilst Lily was admiring herself in her dress, the two men, as discussed in the forest before returning to the castle, knocked on the door. Clarice answered the door, knowing who it had been after seeing the carriage through the window they arrived in. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3nIvGdS2V2
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"Your highness. We were just about to leave for your ball. What may I help you with on this fine evening?" Clarice looked the two over, a little confusion filled her blood stream, but had not allowed it to be evident. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1L9xvBgt15
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"We, Mrs Williams?" The prince looked inside through the door, but could not see an ounce of black. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMM4FagX58O
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"Why, yes. Me and my three daughters." Clarice watched the prince, before an idea struck her. "Would you like to meet them?" She pushed the door open and moved back, allowing both bodies to enter the mansion, yet Connor remained outside, feeling the mansion was not something he needed to enter. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0T7zmWQlTe
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The prince allowed his gaze to inspect every part of the mansion they could before they landed on three young girls, who were definitely not his runaway thief. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwxTkwK4Uwj
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"This is Margaret, Shelby and Betty." They all curtsied for the prince whose face homed a frown and stood confused. The two of them had searched the area for anymore households that side of the forest, and there had only been that one. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMViGBh53gP
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"Is there anyone else in this home, maybe?" The prince watched the three girls gaze at each other, bewildered as to why he would ask such questions. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSyw2mfzV6H
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"No, your highness." Clarice quickly made her way to in front of the princes' face. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjQ079lf9G9
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"Are you sure? Because those materials look familiar to me." He walked around Clarice and to the three daughters of hers. "Now it has came back to me where I have seen them from. They were the ones my mother had packed away in her trunk. The one she had stolen yesterday." Clarice saw this as an opportunity to get rid of Lily; the girl she believed was ungrateful. Little had she realised, by missing the stress the prince had placed on the pronoun "she", that he was no longer talking of his mother, but the thief. He knew she had been in the mansion he stood in with them, he just did not know where. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWGTt96hCvL
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"They are stolen?" Clarice gasped, as if appalled. "Girls. Go and remove them at once." She pointed towards the stairs. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOvqMaApKLJ
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"But mother, you told her to use them." Betty, nor Shelby and Margaret had been happy with what their mother was doing to them. They did not wish to remove the dresses Lily had made to their liking. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyLXJIhtx7L
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"Her?" The prince enquired to the youngest of the three. Clarice laughed, silently cursing her youngest for not understanding what she was doing. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoMmaFU0puO
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"The one who made their dresses. She's upstairs. She came in saying she had new materials whilst carrying a trunk I had never seen before. I thought nothing of it and asked her to make the dresses my three daughters desired." She waved her hand in front of her three daughters figures. "And, as you can see, they chose the stolen materials." 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjQUciH0dz2
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"Show me the dressmaker." He demanded, although he knew she was anything but just a dressmaker. Clarice lead the prince to the studio with a smirk on her face, where Lily had stood in her own little bubble, admiring the dress still. The prince had allowed himself to spend a minute admiring her doing so, the way the material fell around her body, before walking closer to her, Clarice standing with her arms folded in the doorway, expecting a good show. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7vJ8VWgUab
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"It is very nice to see you without the hunters outfit on." Lily's body stiffened at the sound of his voice. It was a pin to her bubble. "And very nice to meet you without being in a forest." She took a breath before catching a glance of him in the mirror in front of her.214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXjvPMc4VQL
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"Wilbert." She turned slowly, biting her lip as she caught the look Clarice wore. "What are you doing here, Prince Wilbert?" She focused on his face, ignoring the fact Clarice was watching closely, and slowly made her way further into the room, and the additional three shadows that appeared on the floor from the doorway. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8X4MBr9lAh
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"I came for you." The air stayed silent for a second before Lily stood forward a step slowly. Their eyes still remained on one another, whilst her palms became sweaty once more. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA6FEerJM24
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"If you were to arrest me, you would have done so earlier today in the forest." Lily wiped her hands on the skirt of the dress discretely. The prince laughed lightly. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGxsDLdm0wS
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"Why would I ever arrest you? Mother can replace the materials. Although she will be needing the pearls back." Clarice's' face turned to one of panic. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCAEeuX45H6
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"Pearls? I do not have any pearls in my possession." She could not remember seeing any pearls in the chest. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJiWQgBIYzN
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"Mother had the pearls earlier today! I saw her with them as she left the house." Betty called out, catching both of their attention. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeFtuHKGuJI
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"That is right. She had mentioned pearls to me earlier, saying the pearls I had supplied her with had allowed her to order a larger coach to take us to the ball..." The prince stared at Clarice, not an ounce of mercy on display. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbnMBWvlsQk
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"You sold my mother's pearls? They were a gift from my grandmother on her sixteenth." He stalked towards Clarice, getting extremely up close and personal with her. She started to cower away from him. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAz7219E0sz
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"Wilbert, she is not worth it. And you have not answered as to why you are here." Lily's voice called him away from the woman who stood, thankful for Lily's distraction as she slipped out the door of the room, causing her daughters to complain for being pushed out the way. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe7aSaMOWDt
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"I came here, in search of you." He stood close to her, taking in all her features. His hand reached out to her hair and stroked it slowly whilst she leaned her head into his hand. "To ask you personally to the ball." Lily paused, taking him in momentarily before giggling at him and held her arms out, wrists close together. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqmlizRa7Qn
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"Yeah right. More like you want to personally escort me to the prison." She stilled her laughing at him the second he placed his fingers on her face and stroked it with a soft smile on his face.214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoYQOM54gKg
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"Do not ever stop laughing. It is all I have had echoing in my head all day." He mumbled at her, leaning closely to her face. "Will you go to the ball with me?" She pulled back, putting space between the two of them, and looked into his eyes. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRZs3fzf9SY
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"Is it not meant to be held for you to find a bride?"214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAsBKMuUSqt
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"And?" The prince found no problem with finding a bride with her on his arm. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwwJpSlxhRC
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"How are you supposed to do so with me on your arm?" He looked at her, and saw she was serious. Without even realising, a laugh spilt out passed his lips, making her blush. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq4aRNEdKq5
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"Lily!" Margaret cried out through the door. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq1vN7LkRFX
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"Lily." The prince whispered, causing Lily to cease breathing at how it sounded from his lips. "Beautiful name. It makes up for the lack of mask, I must say." Lily gasped and smacked his arm with the back of her hand. 214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGqWKlANuiX
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"Wilbert! That was not very nice." She cried with a smile on her face whilst he laughed and rubbed his arm playfully.214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGqjeDGJW5x
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"Lily, seriously, will you come to the ball with me?" Lily simply nodded before trying to walk out of the room but got clamped on by a hand. "Lily, what is your answer?"214Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOL1vnH6Ib9
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"Yes. Now let me go retrieve my mask and gloves." As she tugged on her arm to be released, he smiled towards her, before granting her the freedom, but followed her. The three sisters parted for the two to exit and swooned over what they had just witnessed, all possessing newly made bite marks by the green eyed monster as they watched the prince follow Lily.
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