THE SECRET (The Power Of Love Conquers All)
PROLOGUE III

Jacelyn tried not to cry in front of Ainsley's father and Ainsley Callista. He lowered his head and began to whisper, "I don't remember."

Jacelyn's body stiffened for a moment, she was already preparing to receive the anger of the man who was carrying her. Jacelyn thought that Papa Ainsley Callista would yell at her for being too stupid. Just like Uncle Oilbhries does whenever he gets drunk.

He brought up things that Jacelyn couldn't do well. His uncle would be very angry with Jacelyn and would always say bad things about Jacelyn if he was not satisfied with the little girl.

However, Papa Ainsley Callista was not angry, Jacelyn glanced at the man and found that she was smiling gently at him. Her anxiety soon evaporated after Ainsley's father Callista told her not to worry. He will soon find Jacelyn's family, the man promised.

"Will they miss you if you don't come back?" ask Ainsley Callista.

Jacelyn nodded. "Aunt Olivia and Uncle Noriie are going to cry" she replied.

"Sometimes I wish they were my Mom and Dad. I was really expecting it."

"Because what?" ask Ainsley Callista.

Jacelyn shrugged both of her shoulders. He doesn't know how to explain why.

"Well, there's no harm if we hope" said Papa Ainsley Callista.

Jacelyn felt very happy with the man's agreement, then Jacelyn began to lean her head on Ainsley Callista's father's shoulder. Her warm robe felt rough on Jacelyn's smooth cheeks, but it didn't matter as long as the scent needed the man to be quite pleasant in Jacelyn's sense of smell.

Jacelyn thinks he's the greatest Papa in the world. How lucky Ainsley Callista is to have Papa like him. If only Jacelyn had her, she might feel very happy every day.

Jacelyn jacked up, to see if Ainsley Callista's father was looking at her or not. Since the man was not looking at her right now, Jacelyn decided to satisfy her curiosity. By sticking out her tiny hand to hold the beard filled with fur. The short feathers tickled Jacelyn's hand until the little girl giggled at it.

"Papa, do you like my new friend?" ask Ainsley Callista when they'll get to the festival.

"Of course."

"Can I keep it?"

"For God's sake... No, you can't keep it. He's not a puppy. But, you can be friends with her," said the man, caught off guard by a question almost similar to the previous question.

"Forever, Papa?"

Ainsley Callista asked his father, but Jacelyn answered him. "For ever" he whispered shyly.

Ainsley Callista clasped Jacelyn's hand "Forever," she promised.

...And that's how it all started....

The two little girls were barely even aware in every game that existed, which was almost finished in the event. They were both too busy with their own world.

And to be sure, the two girls were very testing the patience of their respective families. Because Ainsley Callista who has become accustomed to using the word "fuck" in every sentence, while Jacelyn also often uses the word "sad" in every sentence.

One afternoon, when the two little girls were supposed to take a nap, they cut each other's hair. When Aunt Olivia saw the mess the two girls were in, the woman started screaming until she put a hat over the girls' heads to cover up the mess.

The woman even felt very angry at her husband, Uncle Noriie, because he should have been the one watching the two naughty girls. However, instead of feeling worried about the disaster, Uncle Noriie just laughed out loud at what the two naughty girls had done.

Aunt Olivia immediately told her husband to take the two naughty girls to the punishment stone, so that they both thought about the actions they had taken.

It was true that the two girls thought about many things, but it was not about what they had done. Ainsley Callista has a new idea that Jacelyn should also have a name with two words so that they both become the same. Then, the two thought hard about the name that Jacelyn would use.

Elizabeth. Once the name was established, Jacelyn became Jacelyn Elizabeth, she refused to answer the call of anyone who did not call her by both names.

...A full year has passed...

Once they regrouped, the atmosphere was as if they had only been separated for an hour or two. Ainsley Callista impatiently waited until Jacelyn was alone, as she had just learned the shocking facts about giving birth. A woman does not need to get married to have a baby. Ainsley Callista knew that for sure, because there was a woman with Kirkland who had a baby in her stomach, but she was not married. Some old women in the Clan threw stones at the poor woman, whispered Ainsley Callista, and it was her Papa who stopped the evil old women.

"Did they also stone the man who spit in the drink?" jacelyn asked inquisitively.

Ainsley Callista shook her head quickly "He didn't tell you who did it" she replied.

The lessons learned here are very clear, Ainsley Callista explains, if it has been proven that if a mature woman drinks a glass of wine a man, he will be, then she would have a baby in her stomach.

Ainsley Callista asked Jacelyn to promise her that she would never do anything like that. Jacelyn did the same thing, she made Ainsley Callista promise her.

Their childhood felt so blurred in Jacelyn's memory, and the awareness of the hatred that existed between the people of Northumbria and the people of Stewart began to enter into his thinking slowly. According to him, Mama and Uncle Oilbhries always hated people from Stewart kingdom, because they never mingled with people from Stewart kingdom.

Jacelyn felt quite confident, if only they knew the people from Stewart kingdom well, they would definitely not have that hatred in their hearts.

Ignorance can make people take things for granted, right? At least, that's what Uncle Noriie always said to Jacelyn. Jacelyn strongly believed in everything Uncle Noriie had told her. Because that man is a very kind and loving man. And when Jacelyn also realized that Mama and Uncle Oilbhries had never once interacted with people from Stewart kingdom, Stewart, it caused both of them to not realize that the people of Stewart Kingdom were actually very pleasant and kind-hearted, Uncle Noriie kissed Jacelyn's forehead and said that it might be true.

Jacelyn could tell from the sadness that was seen from both eyes of the Uncle, that the man agreed to his opinion just because he wanted to please Jacelyn alone. And also for the sake of protecting her from the unreasonable prejudice of Mama.

When Jacelyn was in her teens and on her way to the festival, Jacelyn only learned the reason behind her Mama's hatred for Stewart's royal people.

His mother was married to a man from Stewart's kingdom.