Aurora stood at the entrance, and inhaled, the door opened and she seized her breath, confused. Her mind wondered if breathing was a key to opening the door but a man, a middle-aged man stepped out."Who-" he paused, and Aurora scanned him, he looked like a worker and had his white hair packed. "I thought you wouldn't come," Liam's voice interrupted their gaze. "You look dazzling," he complimented.Liam looked at the man and smiled while he looked at Aurora again, seconds ago, he had no idea who she was, and now it was coming to him, who she was. Liam's smile was enough without words."Oh my!" The man bowed immediately, "Forgive me, my Queen!" He fell to his knees, prompting Aurora to step backwards, staring at him."Samuel, it's okay! I am sure she understands," Liam said, Aurora remained quiet and watched them both."Forgive me, Sire!" Samuel cried."You may go," he laughed, and walked closer, Liam reached out for her hand, and Aurora immediately took a step backwards, gawking at h
"Your Majesty, the grand Queen is here" a voice called from outside."Let her in" he replied, Aurora cleared her throat, and stepped away.Liam darted towards the door and continued to the chair and papers. "Ohh, I wasn't expecting you two," he said and sat where he did before. Aurora stood by the door, quietly with her lips tightened."Your Highness, I heard you're married!" One of the ladies said. She looked more happier and approachable than the other dark-haired. She wore a pink gown and boots, and her blond hair flowed down her back to her butt. She had the same hair colour as Liam. Liam looked at Aurora who stood timidly by the corner. She had no idea who they were or what to do. "Where's your bride!" She continued, Aurora turned her gaze to Liam and their eyes locked for a second, and she lowered her gaze."Oh, my bad," he got up, and before she could raise her gaze, Liam wrapped his hands around her shoulders, and pulled her tighter to him."This?" The dark-haired lady said.
"Oh no I have a dog to look after" Aurora is in a hurry to leave."What?" Everyone is in shock except the king."You heard her right," The king says, Aurora stops and all eyes are on her."Your Highness?" The grand queen says showing her to her seat."Oh probably later," she says, Aurora sits beside the king and they all sat there talking about old days and Aurora sat and wondered, *Why am I even here? I know nothing about what they are talking about, She let out a huge sigh.All eyes are focused on her, Just again she realized she had messed up."What's wrong my Queen?" Lisa says."Oh, it's nothing" She gives them an assurance smile."Okay let's head to the table for dinner" it almost past seven and all she could hear was words passing her by.They all got up but Aurora was so deep in thought that she didn't recognize the king staring at her."Liam" Daniella calls him."Uh?" Aurora comes back."You have beautiful eyes." Liam's words had gotten into her and she stares at him back, Aur
Even his smile affected her, it was her first time seeing him smile so naturally and it was wider than the others."What are you even doing here?" She asked, glaring at him."What do you mean? Didn't your maids inform you I would be coming over?" He asked, Aurora's eyes widened."What?" She inquired, Liam gulped and walked past her, as he was about to open the door, Aurora's hand grabbed his wrist. And he looked back at her."You can't!" She yelled, Liam glared at her head to toe and a wide fake smile inched her lips."Why can't I?" He asked, looking at her hand on his wrist."Because!" She yelled, and her eyes shifted to him, "I am on my period" she swallowed at the sound of it.Liam's eyes fell on her and she tightened her legs and moved backwards."Oh," he straightened, and looked at the guards around him, his face flushed and he stammered.Aurora watched him and nodded, it was working after all, "I am on my period" she whispered and grabbed her stomach. His eyes fell to her stomac
Sania followed her quietly and couldn't believe the queen's reaction to her mother *That was too much she says to herself. "My... Aurora watch out!" Sania says. A man in black attacks her with white cotton clothing. He quickly covers her face with a black mask and takes her into a white van. As Sania tries to move she notice that these men were from the palace, she quickly signifies that she would follow them without any problem. She enters the van with whitey and the goods they had bought. Sania then looks towards the car and notices that those men too were been taken. "I warned her," she says silently. ************ Aurora wakes up and everywhere is dark, the only thing she had remembered was Sania calling her to watch out. "What happened? how did I get to the palace?" She sits up and finds a person in white sitting on the couch. "Oh my... you scared me!" she says. The king gets up from the chair and takes off his robe. "Hm? what's wrong?" she moves back as he walks slowly t
Aurora wakes up and she feels a lot better and stronger. She looks around and no one is around. She gets up and checks for the time "10 am?" she rushes out of the bed. "I wonder how long I passed out, she goes out to the veranda and looks down she sees no one at all. "Where am I?" "Your highness?" A knock follows. Lia enters inside and pauses after they make eye contact. "What happened?" Aurora says. She smiles at her, "Everyone in the palace couldn't believe you fought against the king!" she drops the food tray on the table "What? I did?" "Of course, people couldn't believe it" she smiles at her. "Where is Sania now?" she asks. "She was sent home," she says. Aurora sits down on a chair *Thank God they didn't kill her, "whitey!" She looks at her. "Whitey? who is that?" Lia says. "My dog!" she runs towards the door. "His Majesty refuses you to leave your chambers my queen" "Still?" she looks back. "Yes My...." "His Majesty as arrived!" The guards in
"Your highness, The dinner is about to start downstairs" a maid walks in. "Okay, umm what would I wear?" She opens the closet. "How about pink?" She asks the maid. "It's good, Your highness" she bows. "By the way what's taking Lia and Sania so long?" Aurora asks impatiently "Should I send guards out to find them?" She suggests. "No they didn't run away I just sent them to get whitey food" She sits on the bed. *Only Sania can tell me which color would make me stand out. Daniella that witch! "Omo! why do I care about that Daniella and the king?" she jumps up. "Sorry?" the maid says. "Ah nothing I was just thinking." she sits calmly. "Your highness!" Sania and Lia rush inside. "Your highness! I heard from one of the guards that the king said and I quote "If the queen wants to leave, let her" Lia says. "Really? that's why he didn't complain yesterday…." "Yesterday?" Sania ask. "It's nothing Ah about the dinner can you choose a color for me." She poin
"Get some sleep?" she throws her bag to the bed "I can't believe that man" she falls flat to the bed "Aurora?" Sania knocks slightly "Yes" her voice lowers down. "Aurora? are you in?" she knocks again not hearing her. "What!" she yells angrily "I wanted to check up on you... do you need my help" she says from outside? "Goodnight I'm tired" Aurora rolls over to the edge of the bed...... ..... "Been a queen is boring, what am I supposed to be doing?" Aurora sits on her chair close to the small pond watching the fishes and ducks. "What are you doing here every time?" A familiar voice says to her. "Prince Edward?" she takes her glasses off. "Just Edward would be nice, Your highness" "Your highness?" she asks. "Well you're the queen of course it would be disrespectful to call you by your name" "Can't you just call me Aurora?" "Well someone forbids it" He shrugs "Who?" She sits up lookin
"Lisa?" he called, She dropped the knife immediately and looked at him. "Oh, Liam you're back?" She darts at Aurora and back at him. "What are you doing with that?" He asked, coming closer. "Oh, Aurora dropped this, after placing her on the bed, I picked it up" Lisa smiles. "You should be careful with those" Liam giggled. "Yeah, I think she cut herself" She says, Lisa picks the knife from the floor.. "What?" "I am just kidding, but she yelled, cried before going to sleep" Lisa says. "Why?" "She believes Lady Gina's serving girl died because of her" "Thank you, Lisa" Liam glanced around. "You're welcome, well then I think I should excuse you" she breathed. "Lisa?" He called. "Yeah?" She turned around, holding a coat in her hand. "I'm sorry for the death of your grandmother" He says, Lisa looked over to Aurora "Does she know yet?" Lisa cleared her throat, sucking in the flood of tears. "I will let her know" he says, Lisa smiled and nodded. "Goodnigh
"I knew I should have gone to her!" Aurora says. "Stop it, it isn't your fault" "What if that's why she came to my chambers?" she panicked, bitting her nails. "Aurora, listen to me" Liam took her hands off her mouth, "You haven't slept for the past two days... you're pregnant, remember?" He patted her head. "Shouldn't you see, Lady Gina? she has to know" She says, Liam sighed. "Aurora!" he gripped her hands. "Don't tell at me, I am scared" she says. "You have to eat, you're causing danger to yourself" He explained, but Aurora hands kept shaking. "Hey," He held her hands tight. "We would find whosoever that did this okay?" He says.BB "Lady Daniella, How is she?" She bit her lower lips, blinking severally. "Sire?" Edward calls from behind the door, Aurora narrowed her gaze towards the door. "Come in" Liam says "Sire, your presence is needed at court." He bows. "Why don't you get a warm bath and..." He whispered in her ears, "and put on something nice for me?"
Climbing over her, meeting her lips. He pulled away for a second to look into her eyes, "Ready?" He placed her legs over his shoulders, Aurora breath increased and she nodded. Liam pushed into her, holding her head in his arms, Aurora wrapped her legs around his waist. "Liam!" she moaned, kissing his ears, their breathing ragged as they both enjoyed each other. Her moans softly faded away, as hours passed. Few hours later, Aurora was fast asleep when she heard a strange noise, she opened her eyes to the dark room, she touched around and Liam was nowhere to be found. "Liam?" She called, assuming he had gone to shower, Aurora took off the sheets, coming down from the bed when she heard the same noise again, like someone had fallen. "Sania? is that you?" She searched the wall for the switch, "Kara?" she assumed, slowly she walked closer, Aurora trips over. "Oh! Sania? I'm sorry," she says, crawling through the wetness of the ground. Aurora reaches the wall, searching for the
"I am, where did you get this grape from it's really sweet" she commented, Kara and Sania looked at themselves. "Grape?" Sania asked. "Yeah, grapes" Aurora looked at them, smiling. "What's wrong? you didn't get them?" She panicked. "I did... from my parents place" Kara blushed. "Oh, really? when did you leave?" "Ahh, that... my brother brings them twice a week" "You have a brother? does he work in the palace?" She asked, munching on her grape. "No, he's a farmer" Kara says, looking at Sania. "Can you tell him..." Aurora swallowed, "Can you tell him, to bring some more?" She lickef her lips. "It would be an honour!" She bowed, Sania shook her head. "Do you want some Sania? the King must have scared you a lot" Aurora furrowed her brows at her. "No, Your Grace... I wouldn't dare!" She says, Kara chuckled. "It's fine... I wouldn't be mind" Aurora assured her "Your Grace, you need to prepare for the burial" Aurora froze, she has totally forgotten about that.
The palace, bell rang over and over around the palace, it was a custom that whenever a royal had passed on, the bells would keep ringing from the moment the news had reached the King till the next day, and Aurora in her chambers late at night, stared through the window. People from all over the citadel, stood with candles in their hands mourning the late Queen mother. Liam was stuck in her chambers till the next morning. "Your Highness, the King had ordered you to sleep" Sania weak voice says. "How can I sleep knowing my husband isn't fine?" she sniffled, turning around, Sania, Kara and Lia were on their knee in a white garment. "For the..." Sania says. "Why are you all kneeling?" She asked, confused and staring at them. "It's the custom?" "To kneel for no good reason?" she chuckled at their stupidity. "Yes, Your Grace" Kara says, wiping her eyes, Aurora took a deep breath "The King?" "Your Grace, he would..." Aurora hissed. "I need to see him, it's midnight and he hasn't st
"Don't!" Sania stopped Lia from opening the door to Aurora's chamber. "Oh, you're here" Lia says, smirking at her. "Yeah, I am..." she rolled her eyes at her. "Why are you guys outside?" "Don't!" Sania yelled. "What?" Lia and Kara, replied gawking at her. "The king is with the Queen" she whispered. "You mean he left here?" Kara asked. "Yeah, he does that a lot..." Lia says, Sania nudged her, sighing. "So, we should probably wait... till he leaves" Sania says. "No, we should go back" "What? are you crazy? what if she needs us?" "After we left, was that when he came?" "Yeah, that time... Her Highness was in the shower" Sania paused, she looked around and gathered them together. "What happened?" Kara asked. "She won't be needing any," Sania mimicked, laughing. "Needing what?" Lia asked, for further understanding. "Her clothes, I assumed" Sania leaned back, shrugging. "Oh my God!" She held her chest, staring at the man at their front. "Sania..." h
Just as the night crept, Aurora returned to her chambers after a long night with the princess, finally she found her way out, and huffed, closing the door of her chamber. "Your bathe is ready" Sania says. "Help me, get this dress off" She says, turning around, in seconds her dress dropped, she quickly grabbed a robe covering her naked body. "His Majesty?" Aurora asked, side glancing Sania and Lia who arranged her bed. Sania and Lia helped prepare a warm bathe for her, she dropped her robe as she stepped into the shower, it was indeed warm, she loved it, it felt so relaxing letting the water roll down her skin. "Thank you Sania" she says, smiling and enjoying the pressure of the water, this was exactly what she need after dealing with the princesses. "Your Highness," she smiled, "Do you need me to prepare your dress?" Sania asked, Aurora felt a figure watching her. "Oh... Liam?" Aurora eyes met his, he started at her with a smile, He had his hair lying on his shoulde
"But I can't touch you without remembering Robert" He sighs. Aurora looked around the chamber, she didn't understand what he meant by that, but that was the most foolish thing Liam had ever said to her, She breathed wondering what he meant. Aurora thought of asking him what he meant but she couldn't bring herself to, Robert? what did he have to do with touching her? nothing he said made sense to her, there was a serious matter around the corner, with his attitude she couldn't bring herself to ask him why he did that. "You can do that later, for now let's shower huh?" She managed a smile, trying her best to bring up any topic that would provoke him knowing how Liam was, he could be so annoying especially when he couldn't or doesn't want to answer or talk about something. "We should?" He smirks, laughing. Aurora furrowed, he looked like a psychopath with his dull eyes and devilish smile, how could one look so scary without effort. "Yeah, why don't you help me undress?" she cares
Aurora lays on his bed, sleeping as Liam steps in, Rialto sat there watching her "How is she?" "She's fine, she just needs rest, she had a hard time staying alone, plus her experience earlier made her shocked. "The baby?" "Fine, but you shouldn't leave her on her own, so it doesn't develop into trauma, it's bad for her health," Rialto says. "Thanks, is that all?" He glanced around. "Yes Sire, I would leave you now" Liam sits beside her watching her sleep. He would have let her stay in his chambers then things would have been different, she wouldn't have to worry about seeing or getting abused. "Sire?" Samuel whispers "Hm?" He turns over, getting out of the bed. "Prince Edward wants to see you" "Outside" Liam mouths, he turns back and Aurora slept soundly. Slowly he shut the door quietly, "What's going on?" "The princesses are asking for the state of the Queen" "She's fine, let them know that... and Edward?" "He says, Robert would like to see you" "Oh, he's ready