Eagle’s Glory

"Your Highness...Your Highness..."

Amid soft calls, Aigron quietly opened his eyes.

He habitually raised his head and looked out the window, only to find that it was still pitch black, probably in the early hours of the morning.

With the help of the dim moonlight, Aegron's vision gradually changed from blurred to clear, and then he saw Teresa sleeping in his arms clearly.

The girl was still sleeping soundly with her eyes closed, and the call just now was just her dream. Against the backdrop of the moonlight, her smooth and beautiful face seemed to be covered with a layer of fluorescence at this moment, which made people love and pity her.

However, her body temperature was not normal, and her forehead was a little hot. Since that time when she passed through the wind, waves and heavy rain in the sea, Teresa had a bad cold and had been in a state of fever for two days.

Because of the loss of appetite caused by the fever, she was a little thinner even though she was already slender, and her expression became a little more haggard. This made Eggron feel distressed and anxious, for fear that Teresa would do something wrong.

But she was always sick, not to mention a delicate girl like Teresa, so after a few days, her symptoms still showed no sign of relief. Apart from using the limited medical resources on the island to make the best possible diagnosis and treatment, Aigron can't do much. He can only pray in his heart for Teresa's speedy recovery.

In addition, he also let go of many things that were not in a hurry, and took time to accompany Teresa, and even hugged each other to sleep at night.

Teresa was afraid of infecting him with a cold, so she offered to live in a separate room with him several times, but Eggron firmly refused.

He was not afraid of catching a cold, and only wanted to comfort the girl as much as possible. He knew that what Teresa needed most was his comfort and encouragement, and nothing else could replace it.

The reason why he treated Teresa like this was not only because he was afraid that he would not be able to explain to his future father-in-law, but more importantly—he hated Teresa from the bottom of his heart, fearing that she would disappear from his side.

He didn't know if it was the love between the two, but he was willing to do his best to take care of Teresa and share her pain.

With the help of the moonlight, he kept looking at Teresa, and then hugged her even tighter.

This silly girl was still calling my name when I was having a fever and dreaming... Thinking of this, he was so moved that he could hardly speak.

I don't know what kind of image I am in her dream?

Aigron hugged Teresa's slightly hot body,

Drowsily fell asleep again.

Time passed quietly in this embrace, and in a blink of an eye, the sky cleared up again.

But this time, Teresa woke up first.

Her mind was groggy from the persistent fever, and her eyelids felt terribly heavy, but even so, she managed to wake herself up.

When she opened her eyes, she saw the young man hugging her.

As usual, she quietly looked at the boy's face, confirming the fact that His Highness has always been by her side.

She took a few deep breaths, enjoying the morning peace between each other, and then spoke regretfully.

"Your Highness, it's time to get up."

Under her sober call this time, Aigron finally woke up again.

Aegron blinked again, then looked at his fiancée with concern. "Teresa, are you feeling better?"

"I'm much better." Teresa replied with a smile, "As long as His Highness wants me to get better, I will be fine."

Then, she urged the young man, "Okay, it's getting late, let's get up, there are still many things waiting for us to do."

"Isn't it okay to hug like this for a while?" Aigron didn't let go of his arms, as if he was still nostalgic for the time when the two were alone.

"Let's just take a while..." Teresa gave in immediately, "It's really only a while, we can't slack off."

This time, both of them had come to their senses, and then faced each other, hugging tightly, and being intimate with each other.

Although there is no real couple, but quietly, they seem to have the self-consciousness of a couple.

Aigron also knew that Teresa was doing it for his own good, so his willfulness only lasted for a short while, and soon he let go of his embrace, then got out of the bed and changed his clothes.

Then he called Chanel and asked Chanel to help Teresa change her clothes.

"Your Highness." Just as he was about to leave, Theresa suddenly stopped him.

"What's the matter, Teresa?" Aegron was a little surprised.

"Do you have time?" Teresa asked.

"Of course there is, if you need it." Eggron replied without thinking, "So what's the matter?"

"I want to do one thing next, let you be a witness, and it will be fine in a while." Teresa smiled, but this smile was a little more pitiful because of her haggard face.

Then she continued to explain, "I told Chanel before that I hope to know exactly what property our family owns and audit our accounts, and Chanel has carried out my wishes without a single complaint. I am very grateful to her." Cooperating...and, after auditing the accounts, I am very satisfied with Chanel's work, she is not only enthusiastic, but also selfless, I can't find any problems in everything she handles, I think , she really deserves to be your most loyal follower."

Teresa is not stingy with words of praise. After all, she also hopes that Chanel can continue to be used by her, so she must praise people face to face, so that Chanel also knows how much she values ​​her.

Sure enough, Chanel was both excited and ashamed when she heard her praise. "Your Highness, this is what I should do."

"Thank you, Chanel." Aigron immediately thanked Chanel, "Thanks to your help, I saved a lot of trouble."

"But in other places, it's not so smooth." Teresa changed the subject.

"Where is it?" Aegron asked.

"At your cousin Charlie's." Teresa hesitated, then whispered. "His accounts are superficially sound, and can even be said to be quite clean - but judging from the appearance, texture and weight of the gems sold in Chanel's records, he is at the lowest price, even at an unimaginably low price. For sale. Undoubtedly, if we sell gemstones on such a large scale, they will inevitably be sold at a discount, but it is still very puzzling that he gave such a low price, because it can be sold at a higher price."

Aigron immediately understood what Teresa meant.

Since Edmond Dantès was sent to Greece by him, Aigron entrusted his cousin Charlie to do the work of selling jewelry and raising money on him.

Charlie took over quickly and smoothly, and then the jewelry was exchanged for money and slowly flowed into the island. Aigron didn't pay much attention, but let Chanel be responsible for auditing the accounts and recording the specific appearance and price of the gems sold.

According to what Teresa said, Aigron could come out easily. Charlie came to a middleman to make the difference when selling the gems. He first sold the gems to his own people at the lowest price, and then Through these people, the gems are sold at a high price to make a profit.

A surge of anger surged in Aegron's heart.

It's my money, it's all my money!

"Really?" he asked, trying to suppress his anger.

"If I hadn't been sure, I wouldn't have said it rashly, and it would affect your brotherhood." Teresa only felt dizzy for a while, and finally managed to control her body's balance, and then she reluctantly Pull yourself up and answer. "I have been looking through the accounts for the past two days, and I have recorded all the transactions in question. If it is not because of the fever, I think it should be faster..."

Although her tone was very weak, Chanel was thrilled to hear it, and she was annoyed and angry.

"Your Majesty, I'm sorry... This is my negligence. I didn't expect... I didn't expect His Royal Highness to do this."

Humph, why wouldn't he do that?

Aegron had calmed down.

To be honest he wasn't surprised.

Historically, this cousin of his was quite a lover of money.

After restoring the empire and becoming emperor, he used various methods to collect money from railways, real estate, banks, etc., from a penniless careerist to a billionaire with a net worth of nearly one billion francs. There is a legend that "use gold bowls when entertaining guests, and use aluminum bowls for yourself".

It is a pity that fate finally abandoned this lucky man. After the failure of the Franco-Prussian War, most of the wealth he painstakingly accumulated was confiscated by the government of the Third Republic as national property. Together with his wife and children, he fled to England in panic.

Having said that, this time he took the opportunity to squeeze money from himself, it can only be said to be a small attempt.

However, he is not a person who is purely greedy for money, he is willing to give a lot of rewards to those around him, and money is also a lubricant for him to maintain the group.

I'm afraid he is also using money to train his private team behind the scenes.

Did not find this problem, this is not Chanel dereliction of duty, Chanel has been displaced since childhood, how can he know what jewelry? She can't assess the value, so she can only record according to the accounts provided by His Royal Highness Charlie; but Teresa is different. She had been dealing with dowry matters for a while, so she was more sensitive to it, and soon discovered the problem.

Thinking about it, he must be very annoyed, why Teresa came here suddenly... Thinking of this, Aigron suddenly found that he didn't seem so angry, but wanted to laugh a little.

Teresa didn't speak any more, she just looked at Aigron quietly, waiting for his decision.

"It's possible that my cousin is very young and can't figure out the value of jewelry." After a moment of silence, Aigron replied. "Besides, we don't have real evidence now that he must have played tricks on it. Maybe he just accidentally messed things up..."

Teresa looked at Aigron with some doubts, not understanding why he said that.

The matter has become so obvious, she knows that His Highness is definitely not such a pedantic person, since he already knows the situation in his heart, is the evidence so important?

"Do you think he is a cousin, so you can't bear it?" She asked in a low voice, "Your Highness, if you think so, I can accept it, after all, theoretically speaking, he has also completed his work."

"No, absolutely not, Teresa." Aigron shook his head, "For me, there is no difference between a cousin and an ordinary servant, and they have to act according to my will. It's just——in the initial stage, We can’t be too demanding and demand perfection from everyone. Charlie is by far the best person for the job, relatively speaking.”

Aegron now has a lot of jewels, but he needs the cash to feed his business. And for him, the fewer people who know the secret, the better.

Although Charlie profited from it, would anyone else be able to get things done? Will it have a bigger appetite than him? Or even directly teamed up to take the jewels as their own and run away?

Aegron wasn't sure.

In the face of great temptation, the previous loyalty may be just empty talk, and he doesn't want to test it, because he can't bear the loss.

Relatively speaking, his cousin Charlie, who also belongs to the Bonaparte family and whose interests are highly bound to him, is already one of the candidates he can trust the most.

He and his brother Louis, both ambitious and selfish, are very worrying, it is true. But at this moment, none of them can abandon the other. The three young people of the Bonaparte family are all fighting for the family, and the family also needs their concerted efforts. Turning their faces and being ruthless is a matter of the future.

Therefore, under such considerations, Egron suppressed the anger in his heart for the time being, and decided to continue to maintain the current arrangement for the time being.

Of course, that doesn't mean he doesn't do anything.

"Teresa, it's really great to have you here." He looked at Theresa, and then felt emotional, "Look, how much loss you have saved for me!"

"Your Highness, don't forget that this is our common cause." Teresa smiled weakly, and then replied in a low voice. "I have to care for you, because it's about our family - I'm different from him, he will have another family after all, will drift away from the fringes of this family, and become a collateral; and our career is to integrate Yes, we are the backbone of this family..."

"Yes, that's true, we are together. No one is allowed to seek benefits from us while profiting from harming us." Aigron nodded, and then he changed the topic, "So, you should establish Your majesty is gone."

"What do you mean?" Teresa asked curiously.

"I called Charlie in front of you, and you are responsible for knocking him." Aigron replied, "Since the past has happened, I can let it go, but his mistakes must be severely reprimanded, no exceptions. And I think the best person to reprimand him is you—"

Then, he looked at Teresa searchingly, "Of course, if you find it difficult, I can do it myself."

"It's okay, just leave it to me, Your Highness." Teresa understood Aigron's painstaking efforts, so she nodded gently, "Your Highness, as long as I have your support, I dare to reprimand any emperor... Not to mention him."

Then Teresa looked at Chanel.

"Chanel, please invite His Royal Highness for me." She ordered softly.