Enough, father
Seeing the man break down, Aaron rushes to his side. Man to man, even if the King hates him for loving his princess status daughter as a porn director, Versalis (Hansel is his real name) concluded that Aaron was more a man than he ever was to his daughter.
Ravine was stuck in her place. She couldn't move. She couldn't decide to forgive her father or not. Everything was his mistake, all through sending her away to America alone at such a tender age.
If he would start regretting, he shall start with regretting to love Ravine's mother.
If he never fell in love with a royal, he wouldn't have started a long sappy story for himself.
"I'm sorry, son. I doubted you..." apologizes Versalis.
"Your majesty... yourself and Ravine are way too similar. She cries the same way you do, and for the same emotions too." Analyzing the duo, Aaron says to the King with a smile.
Ravine's mother only calms herself and looks at her husband. She was telling him to calm down, come talk to his angry daughter later.
As Versalis took his steps forward, Ravine raised her hand to stop him in his tracks.
"I don't want you to walk another step forward, father. Please leave, the way I left the kingdom." Versalis experienced a sharp pain in his heart when she said that.
"Is that how you're talking to your father now, Ravine?" He asks her, she stays silent. Her anger was justified, but the way she talks to her own parents wasn't.
"What else is left for me to say? You knew how much I loved my people..." suddenly, Ravine breaks her tough front and sheds her skin. Tear drops roll down like crystals against the setting sun, they wet the grass blades below her feet.
"I'm sorry, my dear. Please come home... with Miranda gone... my kingdom—"
"You always have the right to choose a heir for yourself, isn't it? Please choose anyone as you like—"
"You don't understand, Ravine...
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.
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The people are calling for YOU."
The woman's eyes widen.
"Me...?" She questions. Rallies, protests, campaigns were all caused for the Princess to come back to Eulandia. The peaceful people of the kingdom have gone berserk... all for their princess.
She did not understand though.
They've never seen her participate in any public matters, let alone do things for the public. She did not understand why the people want her to take up the monarchy.
Was it because they're already aware of who's good and bad?
The only good rulers, potential royal bloods have left. There was none too dedicated to the post, except for the people who craved power.
Other than that, Ravine was a pornstar. The youth were protesting for Ravine not to be given differentiated treatment, just because she was a pornstar.
Does profession decide the heart of a person?
"I'm sorry, my lovely daughter. I've failed terribly as a father. I- I won't require you to rule over my people for them, but I need you to look after my people because there's no one else there. Everyone wants to corrupt us, darling. We can't... we simply can't let that happen."
Blinded by rage, Ravine scoffs and says bittered words to her father, "You love your people more than me, father. That's where everything started."
Saying, Ravine walks inside the mansion and closes herself in a room. Aaron attempted to follow her and console her, but she was quick to escape into the guestroom.
Stuck in an irreversible situation, Versalis weeps silently as his wife patted his back and whispered that everything was going to fall in place.
Why was he so stressed about selecting a heir already?
He isn't even 50 years of age. What was forcing the man to take such a decision to leave everything behind, the empire he built for 25 long years?
Why was he adamant on making Ravine the queen?
That was simple...
He was diagnosed with emphysema. His lungs were to give up soon, the damage was too much now, beyond God's grace.
Ravine wasn't aware yet. It was doubtful that she would even falter a tad given her strong will power. When news breaks, she would be the least affected.
But Versalis was so wrong.
Inside, Ravine was punishing herself everyday for loving her kingdom. She loved them, it was a bond built for 13 years during her tender ages. She couldn't render her heart away for them, she had her priorities straight nonetheless.
And her heart was with pornography.
No one in the existing can stop her from doing what she loves to do. No one. Not even Aaron himself.
Versalis has to gulp the hard pill now.
If Ravine shall be a Queen, the Queen will also have another identity as a porn script writer.
Versalis decides to gulp the hard pill... slowly but with ease.
That's why, he's come to her house to talk to her.
About half an hour later, Aaron raps his fist on the door, imploring Ravine to open the door.
She doesn't respond as a million thoughts run across his head. He didn't want to give away ideas either.
"Ravine, please open the door! Or- or I'm burning all your scripts!" Taking the last step, Aaron screams as Ravine responds only then,
"I dare you to do that, Aaron. I'll fucking skin you alive." Voila!
Smirking at his victory, he attempts to walk away after announcing that he would be doing as dared to.
"Fine! You ruin my peace, I'll ruin yours too." Saying, Aaron pretends to walk away. His slippers shuffling against the floor gave it away that he was going in 'that' direction.
As soon as Ravine curiously opens the door, someone forces her to open it fully as Aaron enters inside.
"Fucker! Idiotic bitch!" Angered, the woman begins to pound her fists on his chest. It hurt him, he stops her and tells her there was no use beating him up.
"If you wanna do it, do it to yourself. Stop hurting other people, Ravine." His words hit her hard.
Somewhere, she knew she was being a stuck up bitch. It was about time she grew up and learned to forgive.
"They're still here. Go talk to them." Forcing her out again, dragging her by her wrist, he presents her in front of his mother and her parents.
"Before anything..." Versalis stands up from the chair. Ravine sees him spreading his arms open for her, "Please give your old man a hug, Ravine. Your old man is going to die soon."
