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Sold By My Family (Guardian Angel and Lunarwolf)

'Well I don't know what she wants me to do to her family. But I guess.... It is time to invite them over.' Darian was writing back.
 
'ask you never know she may have a strong dislike of her family and want them to pay for selling her off' Adrian knew that she had come to live with Darian the same way Ianite had him
 
' going to invite them over to see her facial reaction. That and she can finally say it to their faces she is done with them if that is the case.' Was the response.
 
'let me know what happens with then but also go check on her if she is sick she may not be making the best choices' Adrian figured if she was ill she might not be aware of what was going on
 
'check on her yourself it will make you look like a caring husband' Adrian didnt know if he truly cared or not but it would help his appearance
 
A few days had gone by and during that time Darian and Cat had actually sat down and talked things over. He was explaining that this was a new life that she was going to get use to, or at least try to get use to anyways. He explained to her as well that sometimes her actions did reflect quite badly on himself and his family - which wasn't going to do them any good whatsoever. He even, rather bluntly, pointed out that she needed to stop acting as though it was only her that had forced into this marriage, he had been forced into it as well. This would easily tell her that he had been forced by the king to get married, so there wasn't any easy way that he could have denied it at all. Her on the other hand, her parents could have turned down the money and she wouldn't have been forced into it at all, and Darian would just have moved onto the next potential bride candidate. Now was the day when he had invited her parents over and he had even told her that he was going to do that - to give her the chance to make a decision on what she was wanting to do with her life. "Tell them to leave, that you never want to see them again. Curse them to the high heavens. Tell them that you want them to visit once a week. Whatever you wish but - be honest."

As this was happening, Ianite was sitting in the more stocked library and was just working on getting some of the books that she had bought a few days ago more organized on the shelves. She was just humming a bit and getting some help from Kelly as needed. While she would have gotten help from Calla - the woman wasn't even at the mansion at the time. No the day prior she had gotten word from her own family that her mother was quite sickly and they didn't think she had long to live. So she had asked for a few days of leave from Ianite so that she could visit her family - although of course Ianite had gone to Adrian since she hadn't known if there was some special way to go about that. "Do you mind putting these four books up over there on that shelf?" Ianite was holding out a few books to a guard that was there to assist them as needed and was pointing to a shelf, and the man was doing that without so much as an argument. In fact all morning, the man had been super helpful and the trio had been talking about different books. If Adrian did check in on his wife he would see that she was actually quite happy at that point in time, even if she was still more wheelchair bound for a few more days at the least.
 
Cat had agreed to try but she had asked him to meet her half way to make it clear to the staff that is she is asking it is because she is not wanting to bother him while working. this would give Cat some time to adjust to being a duchess.

Adrian stood in the door and smiled as he watched her happy to see she was adapting to being a duchess
 
Darian had agreed that he would put his foot down with the staff that if Cat was doing something herself - that it had been her decision, that he had offered to assist and she had insisted that she could do it alone. This had the rumors dying down with the compromise that Cat swear that she let him know if she needed help, or at least if she did do something herself, whether she did actually talk to him or not, that she at least mention to whoever was questioning that she had already had a chat with him. Even if they came to Darian about it he would just tell them that he had known about it and had just told her to be safe after she stated she didn't need help.

Ianite was just looking towards the door for a moment before she was waving and gesturing for him to come into the room. "Well what do you think?"
 
Cat agree to that and she had started talking with him more when it came to leaving the house she did let him know and made sure that she took guards and a maid with her.

"I think you are doing a great job" Adrian walked over and kissed her and smiled at her
 
Darian was just looking towards her for a brief moment in time at the mention of taking a guard and a maid with her before he spoke, "Honestly though when you take them to town with you, if you just let them know you want time yourself they'll let you be. There is a whistle that you'll be given as an emergency. Blowing it once will tell the guard you need help, blowing it twice is letting them know you are wanting to head home." This was something that only Darian and Adrian did - something they had done when they were younger and always hanging out together.

Ianite was just giving a small smile before she was stating a thank you for letting her borrow one of his guards. "He has been such a great help."
 
Cat nodded her head "I was going to go shopping for some more clothes it was pointed out to me that I rewear the same dresses a lot and it would look bad on you when I start going to tea with other ladies and such" Cat didnt like the idea of shopping but she didnt want to make him look bad

"I am glad to here it and he is going to be your permanent guard" Adrian liked the male and he was a good guard
 
Darian was just looking over for a brief moment in time before he was giving a nod of his head then spoke, "Then I would recommend taking with you Aubrey. She use to serve my mother and she could definitely help you pick out some dresses that will show your status - and you'll still be comfortable in. Honestly... your attitude is similiar to how I'm told my mother was." The elder maid was coming over and smiling at Cat before she was speaking, "Don't worry child I'll help you be comfortable and still hold that high status. I just hope you don't mind having this old woman with you."

Ianite was just giving a nod of her head before she spoke, "Oh alright... if that is what he wants as well." She didn't want to be a burden at all on people.
 
Cat smiled at her and nodded her head "not at all I could use the help" Cat was glad they had talked and had come to the agreement they had so that they could make the marriage work since getting divorced was not something she wanted as it would put her in a bad place.

Adrian chuckled and then kissed her again "relax it is normal for a duchess to have a guard dedicated to you"
 
Aubrey was giving a small smile before she was speaking, "It has been so long since I've been able to go out shopping with somebody."

Ianite was giving him a kiss back before she was giving a nod of her head.
 
Cat smiled and then looked at Darian "do you want to come with?" she didnt know if he would want to come with it or not

Adrian then looked at the rest of the library and smiled as it was filling out well
 
Darian was just looking over before he spoke, "I think I'll pass; you go and have fun. I have some important paperwork to get done still."

Kelly was just speaking, "From what I heard... Miss Ianite practically bought all of the books from the bookstore. The storekeep had been more than elated though for those sales." "His shop hasn't been doing so well recently... less and less people are going there so he is losing business fast. Nobles don't believe in books it seems, or many of them don't. I want to help him keep his store open but I'm not sure how." Ianite was speaking after a moment in time before letting out a breath of air.

The guard seemed to be making a suggestion, "Why don't you take frequent trips there. Even take a few there with Lord Adrian, let people see the pair of you there buying some books."
 
Adrian nodded his head "I would be happy to go with you to the bookstore sometime"

Cat nodded her head and then stood up so she could get changed and then head out to get more clothes
 
Ianite was just smiling brightly when he said that, and Kelly was just smiling a bit as she watched them and continued to put stuff away. Although it wasn't long before the butler was coming in and stating that he had gotten a tea invite from one of the other dukes. A duke that both Adrian and Darian personally had an issue with. An asshole that had a tendency to make people feel bad about themselves - so his targets of interest were going to be that of Cat and Ianite that was for sure. Ridiculing their skills as duchesses. Kelly could see who it was from before she spoke, "Master, I would recommend having Calla go in place of myself as a maid for Lady Ianite." No there were a few reasons for her saying this and one of the reasons was something that nobody else needed to know about, but Adrian was aware of it. One of the parties in the past that she had attended while escorting his mother and him, she had been raped by the old duke. That and the other reason for suggesting Calla.... was the woman would be able to stand up for herself and Ianite when Adrian wasn't around.

As they were leaving Darian would be receiving the same invite which just had him giving a slight grown. Well that was fantastically annoying... and it was an invite that they couldn't decline either. It would look far too horrible for them to do that.
 
Adrian looked at the invite and nodded his head "Calla will begging and if I am able I will be going as well" Adrian knew what was going on and he didnt blame Kelly.
 
Kelly was just nodding her head before she was speaking, "Hopefully this isn't another one of his "wives" only party that he decided to host again." That had been chaos and it would definitely be a good thing that Calla was a trained fighter.
 
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