CHAPTER 125:

“Sweetheart. You look upset!” Ezequiel gave her a concerned look. She had been sitting idly in bed for quite some time.

“Did you say something?” She jolted up a little.

“You are not even listening to what I am saying!” He sat beside her shifting her closer to him, making her sit on his lap, “What is it, sweetheart?”

“I am just confused.” She looked into his golden eyes. The eyes she always thought could look into her soul. “When I came into the palace as a maid, everybody told me that palace is a strange place. Every time somebody used to tell me that, I used to mock them secretly. But now …”

Instead of saying anything further, she kept playing with her fingers intertwining them until his strong hand covered hers, silently asking her to complete it.

“Zeki. Life here is so artificial. No one is trustworthy here. Thank God I have got you.”

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