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Queen Danika rose the next morning in an unfamiliar bed, but a very much familiar room.
Memories of the day before filled her head. She's in her bedroom again. Her childhood bedroom in Mombana.
Before she'd arrived the new guards and the new maids had put everything in order for her. When Mombana was merged with Salem, most of the new maids and guards had been working at the palace.
Now that it's separated again to two different Kingdoms, King Lucien had hand-picked the Mombana guards and maids, according to the Head Guard, Rogan.
They'd wanted to move her things to the King's Chambers, which is her father's former bedroom but she'd declined. Instead, she asked them for the favor to clean out the Princess's Quarters which is her old bedroom and they'd obliged. She wanted familiar ground.
As she rose from
943 word(s)Published249Coza was so angry, he was seething. From his cave, his anger can start a fire in the mountains if anger was a living being.He glared at the maid, "He made her a Queen!? She's now in Mombana!?" He raged, "This has ruined my plans, dammit to hell!""It's not really so bad, we can still—""Still do what!? Salem and Mombana are separated, no longer a joined Kingdom! I want to conquer that man Lucien and rule both Kingdoms, dammit! Now that it's no longer a joint Kingdom, I won't have two Kingdoms when I conquer Salem!" He was raging.The maid bristled. He was right. "Also, I'll have to go back to Mombana.""Not for now. Find a way to delay your going. I need you here in Salem. Blazes, I shouldn't have waited to conquer Salem! I should have done it a long time ago.""You have to calm
1379 word(s)Published250"You can always count on me. I will protect her with my life."He nodded once. "Thank you. It's early night now. If you both set out, you can be in Mombana around early morning. The night journey is always the fastest with a better carriage. Go with one of the palace carriage, not the horse.""Your wish is our command, Your Majesty." They'd bowed their heads and left his bedroom.**"Yes. He sent us to come and take care of you. We don't know how long we're staying yet, but he requested that Chad be made your Head Guard because no one can protect you better." Baski explained.Danika's mind reeled. He sent the two people so close to him...so important to him, to come stay with her and take care of her. "Who will take care of him?" She whispered.Baski smiled and patted her shoulders, "He will be fine." She
943 word(s) Published 251 "I am stripping you from being my mistress, Vetta. And from today onwards, I'm setting you free." Vetta stood there staring up at King Lucien, hours later. She was finding it hard understanding those words he spoke. "W-What?" Surely, she didn't hear him correctly. It's those memories again tormenting her and blocking her hearings, she concluded. But his eyes... That guilt was still there. That Remorse. And a new look too. "Henceforth, you will no longer be a mistress to me, Vetta. I am letting you go." "Y-You're throwing me away?" It was hard for her to believe. She can barely hear above the clamours in her head. "No. No, I'm not throwing you away. I will never throw you away." He stated firmly. "But, you're stripping me from being your mistress.
1170 word(s)Published252His eyes took on the gentlest light. "Alright, I will not. But, you understand my message right?""The only t-thing I understand is that you're touching me willingly. And you're h-hunching in front of me with a d-dirty scarred part of me in your kingly hands. And you're sending me away.""No part of you is dirty, Vetta. Not to me." Done with her legs, he let them go.She wiped her tears, staring at her ugly legs. "I can't be Anarieveta ever again. Cone made sure of that. You don't know half of the things I've done, My King. Or what it's like, leaving in a head like mine.""I have a good idea, because I know what it's like leaving in a head like mine. You can always be Anarieveta again, you know why? The things you did do not define you." He took her hand and placed it on her chest, "What defines you is your here. Your heart d
828 word(s)Published253Eight Weeks Later......"You have to be in court, Your Highness, everyone is waiting for you." Baski announced as she entered Queen Danika's bedroom.The thirty-three weeks pregnant Queen was standing in front of the mirror in her expensive, extravagant royal gown made by the finest lace and silk, rich in velvet. The red and gold-colored luxurious tunic gown also contained embroidered lace and gems. Her long blond hair was wavy and styled, it pulled down behind her back.The Queen looks so devastatingly beautiful—even in her condition—but she isn't happy.She misses King Lucien with an intensity that is so terrifying, it remains indescribable.As days go by, she misses him so badly that she has to cry herself to sleep in her cold empty bed most of the nights, unless Sally comes
980 word(s) Published 254 Kamara is desperate. She can no longer sleep in peace, nor can she eat without indigestion... especially since she has no appetite at all. Not since she overhead her father's conversation with his General about Callan. It has been two months since Callan was put in that godforsaken dungeon, her father only ordered that he shouldn't be fed, but he has not ordered any torture session or any verdict about what will happen to Callan. That had gotten her worried as hell because she knows her father. His feigned ignorance doesn't mean he forgot at all, it only means he is planning something much more worse. Her worries was confirmed last week, when she overhead his conversation with his General when he was angrily telling the General that he's been waiting for King Lucien to come calling for her, but the King was determined to shame him after
1190 word(s)Published255Two months has not changed the fact that Vetta knows nothing to do with her life.These past two months have not been easy, as she always finds herself resisting the constant urge to go back to the Palace.But, she'd promised King Lucien that she will 'heal', she was determined not to let him down...whatever 'healing' means. The wounds she has cannot heal.But since she already made a promise like that, she was determined to try and live as a free woman, and she set her mind to keep that promise.In the past two months, she has tried to do everything normal women of the Kingdom of Salem would do. She goes to the market to get groceries for food, she goes to the fair whenever she hears there will be a carnival entertainment, she keeps her big house and even goes out back to pick fruits that fall in the garden.
1046 word(s)Published256King Lucien just returned from the Royal Court, very tired with a pounding headache nagging his head. He walked with a slight limp that comes with standing on his feet for so long. It was a very busy day like it has been for the past two months.Earlier in the day, he got Princess Kamara's letter, and he was forced to open it.Other letters, he did not bother to open because frankly, he does not care whatever its content might be. He has no intentions of marrying the Princess.But, when it came from a messenger, he deduced that there must be more to the letter—there has to be for the messenger to be sent all the way from Navia to Salem.So, he'd opened and read it.Indeed there was more to the letter. It finally made sense, the Princess's behavior here in Salem. Her heart already belongs to another.