I let out the breath I was holding. Plopping down on the chair I placed beside his bed I sighed out of relief. The crown prince is alive.

I did my little victory dance as I was finally far far far away from the worst case scenarios but I paused as soon as I realised that I needed to patch up his wounds. It will be bad if I just leave those wounds like that. Taking the bandages from the bag I walked back towards the crown prince, but my body froze as soon as the realisation hit my head. I needed to take his shirt off to treat his wounds.

...

"I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this. I can't do this." my soul left my body and my mind stopped working.

Why am I going through this suffering!?

No! No! No! I must not think like this, what if he bleeds out and dies!? I can't allow that! But I can't undress him either! Ahh! I must get serious! Really serious, I can't let personal feelings get me, I must treat him!

After jumping around for 10 minutes at least, I calmed down my overly beating heart. I went to the bathroom and filled a bowl with water and brought it inside the room. Moving the medicine and vials elsewhere, I placed the bowl on the bedside table.

"Okay!" I took a deep breath. I will get it done!

"Men quiver before me! This is nothing! I will get it done!" with big self-confident speeches I towered over the unconscious male lead. But what if I get mistaken again.

#3rdworstcasescenario

"How dare you take advantage of an unconscious person! And not to mention he is the crown prince! Die you evil villainess!"

"How could you do this to my male lead!? You villainess! Die!"

"Ah!"

This is worse than the last two scenarios! Even the female lead was here! As my self-confidence broke down, my empty shell tower over him. His white dressing shirt was now red all over. That shirt probably cost 100 gold coins.

"Let's get over it!" I said, determined to get the torture over. Pulling his long over coat and throwing it on the floor. Gosh, another 100 gold! I started unbuttoning his shirt, though it was already ruined. I could have just tore it but I must pay my respect to those 100 gold coins. Taking the shirt off this body I threw it on the floor once again. With my eyes desperately avoiding his body, I drenched a towel from the bathroom and started cleaning his wounds.

And dear author, why!? Why must the male lead be so gifted!? With good looks even to kill a person, why must he have such a body!? My eyes can't handle this! He was lean but still had well toned muscles. Why on earth am I attracted to that!? His black hair fell over his eyes. He can even beat sleeping beauty in her own game, and the silver light of the moon just gives him the final touch.

"Jeez! Look at him killing people in his sleep!" I cursed at my burning face as I cleaned the blood from all of his wounds and most of them had dried up. I changed the water multiple times as it got dirty very quickly. After finally clearing his wounds, I started applying medicine on it. Fiole was a very famous ointment. A magician recently opened a shop in Guson where he sells this ointment. It's very useful, even brother Kaven asked me to get those for his knights.

After applying it all over his wounds, I wrapped the linen bandage around him. Well, I struggled a lot. Messed up twice, but I finally managed. If only I could use magic, I could have done it faster. After I patched his wounds up, I pulled the cover over his body to hide it from my eyes.

I have done it!

Crying happy tears, I put all those empty vials and the ointment bottle with the remaining bandages in the bag. I grabbed a piece of paper from the study table in the room and a quill and some ink. Scratching down a small note out for his highness to know that I am not a stalker or a spy. I doubt he will remember me, but even if he does it's better to save myself from a misunderstanding. I left it with the remaining bottle of energy potion.

I took the bag as I took a last glance at the sleeping crown prince lucian. He should get his consciousness by tomorrow. With the mana I recovered from the energy potion, I should be able to teleport to the duchy without losing a kidney or a lung.

"Sleep well, your highness." I muttered before I vanished into the teleportation spell.

...

My heels soon touched the stone path of the duchy. The guards who stood on either side of the oak door of the mansion bowed and greeted me as they opened the door for me. The staff were still working and the lights of the mansion were still lit even though it was very late. My heels clicked against the marble floor, as the staff walking around greeted me.

"My lady you are back!" Josep came down the stairs and greeted me with a smile. "Today was a long day, you must be tired."

"Ah, tell me about it. At least I won't go to the tower for 2 days." I sighed. "Can you keep this bag in my room?"

"Did father have his dinner? Also the doctor told him to take walks between his work, did he do that?" I asked Josep. For neglecting his health too much for his work, he got sick not too long ago.

"Yes milady." Josep smiled at me.

"My lord is currently waiting for milady." Josep said as my eyes opened as wide as saucers.

"He hasn't slept yet?! Does he want to ruin his health again?" I asked as I started running up the stairs.

"Milady please don't run! You will get hurt!" Josep cried after me.

"I grew up Josep, I am not a little girl anymore." I laughed as I continued running towards the duke's office.

I slowed down as I got near the hallway of fathers office in the second floor. The knights standing next to my fathers office bowed to me as I approached the large wooden doors.

"You both have been working hard." I said with a smile to the knights. "Announce my presence to my father."

Soon after they made the announcement inside, I walked in to see father still working with a pile of parchment on top of his desk. Standing beside him was Sir Perseus. A young male at his late 20s was the aide of my father. He is the second son of the Dusan family, who is also a branch family to our Esmeray Duchy. He was tall and fair. His blue eyes were hiding behind his round classes as a few strands of his long blond hair came loose from the ponytail.

"Greetings Lady Esmeray." Sir Perseus bowed slightly when I returned.

"Greetings to you too Sir Perseus, I hope father isn't making you work over time." I said as my father looked at me shocked.

"Those are all false accusations." He huffed to which both me and Sir Perseus shared a laugh.

"On a serious note, you should have gone to bed 2 hours ago, why are you here dad?" I asked.

"There were a few important papers I needed to check," he said as I took a seat on the sofa in his office. "How was work at the tower today?"

"Nothing much, dealt with a few amateur dark magicians and visited the Empress." I said.

"Ah, I still don't get it why you chose such bloody work instead of research at the tower, anyways, was it an important meeting with the Empress?" He asked. "She seems to call you often."

"Not at all, she just wanted to meet me today, nothing important." I said intentionally leaving out my disastrous encounter with his highness the Crowned Prince.

After we exchanged a few more words, I stood up from my place on the sofa.

"It is about time to call it a night dad, let the poor Sir Perseus have some sleep and if there is something very important left send it to brother Kaven." I said.

"Yes yes," Father replied as I started to walk towards the door.

"Oh right, Evanora!" Father called as I turned around.

"It completely slipped out of my mind as I chatted with you, I am planning to go on a business trip to Clale tomorrow." He said.

"Clale? That's like on the other side of Guson." I asked.

"Yes, aside from the trip, I was planning to visit your Grandfather." He said. After my reincarnation I learned the previous Duke Esmeray, my grandfather moved to Clale after handing the title to father and wanted to live a peaceful life by the beach.

"As days goes by, he isn't getting any younger so I was planning to get him back to Eyrith to we can at least take care of his health." He said. "My old man is very stubborn so it will take me quite some time to convince him but eventually I will return with him."

"I see, that's actually good news. Will brother Kaven be going with you too?" I asked.

"No, Kaven will be staying here taking care of the estate." He replied.

"Very well then, I shall see you off tomorrow morning. Write to me when you are away." I said. "Good night, dad."

"Good night, my dear." He smiled at me as I walked out of his office door.

I walked in silence as I wondered about my grandfather, he was never mentioned in the book, I only got to know about him when I came to this world. I was having mixed feelings about meeting someone new again who probably has the old version of Evanora in their mind. But regardless of that fact, I can't ignore that he is family.

And maybe, everything will be fine.