Running to the confines of my room was the first thing I did as I stormed out of the door, I prayed that there would be nobody in the room and the Moon Goddess answered my prayers. I slammed the room door shut and walked to my bed, sitting slowly while burying my face in my palm. It was hard to believe what had happened. No one would dae believe.It was a moment for vulnerability but I knew that I couldn’t absolve myself of every responsibility. I had let him hug him, touch me and kiss me and I had even kissed him back. It was unheard of. That I had allowed my enemy, My life's own enemy , the person who had killed my father and ruined my life, I had allowed him to kiss me. It was unheard of. It was a secret I was carrying to my own grave.As I laid there on the bed trying too hard to forget about what had happened while beating myself up for even allowing myself to find comfort in his arms in the first place.How did that happen?I closed my eyes for a second to catch my breath and th
By the next day, I had no idea what I was going to do. Whether I was going to resume work or whether I was going to avoid him and if I did, what reason would I give Serena without telling her the truth?I stayed in bed for a longer time before getting up and walking towards Jonathan’s room. I had forgotten my cleaning tools in his room that day before but I had met them exactly where I had usually picked them up. I tried to imagine what he would have told the person that returned my cleaning materials but I was hell ass sure that he didn’t tell them that he kissed me.I gulped as I started cleaning, intentionally dragging my feet around and dragging on my cleaning till I had cleaned everywhere spotless. It was harder not to think as I neared the room. As I got to the door, I hear a painful groan and without thinking, I pushed the door open to see Jonathan battling with one of the wounds on his waist. He had a fast way of healing when the wounds on his waist were refusing to heal. The
I marched towards the kitchen area fuming. It was hard to believe what had just happened. I had thought our meeting would be weird and we would avoid each other, who knew that Jonathan would act like nothing had happened. As thought he had pressed me against himself and kissed me the day before. Thinking about how he had asked me to go back to the clinic was making me mad.I knew Masoma had talked to him. So much for thinking that she was a friend. I had no friends here, no one at all was my friend and I had forgotten that. I had learnt my lesson in a hard way and I regretted ever thinking that people would want to be my friends here. Over the past three months, only Juniper and Serena had proved repeatedly that they were my friends, the rest failed so miserably and yet again, I had my guards up.“Oh my goodness, is that you Princess?” a familiar voice drifted into my ears and I paused, turning to see a group of girls behind me.“I told you that was her” another girl said and I sighed
As I walked away, the thought of Aurora filled my mind and I chuckled. I didn’t think that I hated her but I most definitely didn't like her nor did I care about her. I didn’t know whose orders she was acting on or if like everyone else, she hated me but I remembered how clearly she made life hard for me. How she never allowed me to defend myself, how she was horrible and terrible to me. Everyone else made life hard for me but Aurora made life unbearable for me. It was safe to say that she was one of the many reasons why everyone bullied me and took advantage of me but they didn't know who I was and that my spirit would never break and thanks to Juniper, I was able to survive.I arrived at the kitchen and I met Juniper wearing a small frown on his face while washing the plates. I quickly made my way towards him, dipping my hands into the murky water to help him out.“Ami!” he exclaimed looking around.“You can’t do that. Those are hands that serve the king” he whispered and I chuckled
“I know that I do this all the time but I can’t help but apologize every time” Juniper said softly and I shook my head.“Not everyone knows that you are a sweet human being, not everyone knows the true you” Juniper added , “If they knew nobody would treat you the way they did. If only they knew the true Amira” he whispered as he placed his hand over mine and I met his soft eyes and immediately shook my head.“That’s still not an excuse Juni” I replied, feeling grossly unsatisfied. It was not an excuse. It had been a long while since I had felt this way in the Berg Kingdom. I thought that I was accustomed to the way they treated me but I obviously wasn’t. Not even one bit. The only thing that was different was that I had just decided to swallow my grievances before now.“What if they don’t know me? What if they don’t know the real me? That’s still not an excuse to treat me like garbage. They all hate me and I’m not even responsible for anything” I said as my voice got higher and higher
I pursed my lips, sighing softly, “Thank you Juni” I said softly, “You always have words to lift me up and make me feel better," I added and Juni chuckled.“C’mon, what are we friends for?” Juniper replied and I nodded slowly.“There’s something I also need to tell you” I said breathing out loudly and Juniper stared at me with rapt attention.I had debated for a long time whether to tell Juniper about my kiss with Jonathan or not. It was eating me up so bad and I hadn’t dared to tell Serena about it and Juniper was the only one I could tell. I thought long and hard before deciding to tell him. I didn’t know how he would take it but I knew that he would still be on my side. That was what Juniper had shown me over the months that I had stayed here. That he would resolutely regardless of whatever happened that he would be on my side.“And you must not freak out or shout or yell or do anything dramatic or crazy” I continued and Juniper laughed.“What do you mean?” He asked laughing, “Nobo
My conversation with Juniper was both eye opening and both worrying. It was eye opening that I started to realize that in truth, I was different from most slaves but most of the slaves came from a royal lineage. None of them were Princesses when they were captured. None of them were through the same torture as I did. None of them were hated by virtually everyone in the kingdom. Why was I so different?It was hard to understand or conjure up a reason why it was like that for me. It became glaring obvious after a few days that Juniper was right. Comparing myself to other slaves, there was a little bit of favoritism on my side. Not even the members of the Berg Kingdom could learn medicine if they wanted. There was a test and if they passed, they got in and there was me who indicated interest and immediately was asked to start attending classes.But why? Why was I allowed to suffer and then all of a sudden, he was being nice to me? All of a sudden, he found out he could comfort me and ki
Jonathan trusted me. It was hard to believe that someone who killed my father, my enemy trusted me. Why would he trust me? What quality or what attributes I have consciously and unconsciously exhibited for him to think that he could trust me. I didn’t know why. It didn’t make any sense but he did anyway.The crazier part; I didn’t find it so weird or so dramatic that he trusted me. The fact settled won with me easily and with no resistance. It wasn’t hard to understand why.With Juniper’s conversation, I had slowly understood that I indeed felt something towards Jonathan and if he felt something towards me, he wasn’t very clear either but he did. I mean he did trust me and that for no reason. That wasn’t all, he had actually gotten me medicine books because I decided not to go to the medicine house again.Such blatant show of affection was something that I hadn’t experienced in a long time and yet for some reason, I liked it and even enjoyed it. It made my heart warm and made me smile
I had no idea how much longer I was out for but by the time I opened my eyes, I was laying on the grass and as I sat up, I immediately recognized the grass to be the grass at the far end of the royal garden, it was somewhere I used to come to to get away from the prying eyes of people and I would lay there drifting in and out of my thoughts and some other times, i would sleep out totally. My hands immediately went to my stomach to see where Juniper had stabbed me and there was nothing.I was clad in my royal outfit and unlike before, I knew the clear line between reality and my dreams so I knew I was dreaming. I quickly stood up to my feet and dusted my clothes while hurrying out of the garden. I knew I was dreaming but I also knew that it was another chance for me to see my family, to see my father. I always saw him in my dreams.I was unsure of the severity of the knife stab of Juniper’s but considering how much blood had been on my hands, I knew that the chance of me surviving was
I had no idea how much longer I was out for but by the time I opened my eyes, I was laying on the grass and as I sat up, I immediately recognized the grass to be the grass at the far end of the royal garden, it was somewhere I used to come to to get away from the prying eyes of people and I would lay there drifting in and out of my thoughts and some other times, i would sleep out totally. My hands immediately went to my stomach to see where Juniper had stabbed me and there was nothing.I was clad in my royal outfit and unlike before, I knew the clear line between reality and my dreams so I knew I was dreaming. I quickly stood up to my feet and dusted my clothes while hurrying out of the garden. I knew I was dreaming but I also knew that it was another chance for me to see my family, to see my father. I always saw him in my dreams.I was unsure of the severity of the knife stab of Juniper’s but considering how much blood had been on my hands, I knew that the chance of me surviving was
The moment Juniper spoke, I shuddered as the large door of the shed opened and then I heard footsteps. I started struggling even harder with my ropes. I didn’t know how Junier had managed to make Jonathan come and even worse on his own.“Welcome your highness” Juniper said with a grin as he came face to face with Jonathan.“I hope you listened to me and came alone” he added and I watched Jonathan almost step on a trap that Juniper had laid out.“Be careful!” I yelled and Jonathan’s legs remained hung in the air.“He has set traps all over, watch your feet” I breathed and Juniper turned to me with anger, “Who asked you to talk?” he glared at me kicking the nearest object beside him and sending it flying towards me. The empty bucket hit my stomach again and I groaned in pain.“How dare you?” Jonathan growled at him and Juniper burst into laughter.“Easy there your highness, don’t annoy me” he replied and then it was Jonathan’s turn to burst into laughter. He stared at Juniper for a whil
I couldn’t believe my eyes or my ears. Everything was starting to feel a little too fast, a little too real. Juniper’s words were as though he was driving knives into my body. No matter how hard I tried to keep my composure, I just couldn’t. I couldn’t believe that the one person I trusted with my life had set me up and made me a fool. At a point, I just stopped trying, the tears flowed down and I was so sure that I wasn’t going to be stopping anytime soon. Everything was starting to make sense in my head.Questions I should have asked before, I was just asking them. The doubts I should have chased before, I was just trying to chase them now but I was too late. Way too late.“So everything was all you” I whispered, biting on my bottom lip as he stared at him and Juniper nodded as he got up from his seat.“I thought I already made that clear already, everything was all me” he replied as he started moving around placing some things in the shed and I frowned.“You know I gave you a chanc
Nothing at all could describe the pain and ache in my heart as Juniper spoke. His words were like tiny sharp prickles drilling into my chest and no matter how hard I tried to pretend that I didn’t care that what he was saying didn’t matter, I couldn’t help it. I had confided in him and yet he was using it against me. The thought of everything that had happened rushed to my head and my head started to spin. A part of me was still finding everything that was happening a little too real, unbelievable.How did I not see through at all?“Why are you doing this to me?” I whispered, tears running down my cheeks. He was supposed to be my best friend and yet here he was torturing me.“You know while I baited my time here, nothing seemed to ever faze Jonathan. He was so well protected and there was no leakage, nothing at all. There was no way I could penetrate into his impregnable wall and even the news about the palace was scarce. He had no weak points, only strong points but I knew that the t
AMIRA’S POVI had no idea how long it tk me to open my eyes but the moment I decided to do so, it was a sharp pain and ache from the back of my head had registered in my mind first and it took me several minutes before slowly opened my eyes and tried i adjust my eyes to the environment and know where I was. It took me a few minutes, but I soon realized that I was in a shed. The shed looked old and rusty and it had a faint smell of old books in the library. It definitely wasn’t used so well. That was what I was sure of.I tried to stand up and it was then that I realized that my hands and legs were tightly bound and panic set in as I tried to loosen myself all to no avail. As I tried to free myself, I immediately remembered how I had found myself here in the first place. I remembered Juniper hitting me with a stick, the displeased look on his face as I fell to the floor. I hadn’t been hallucinating.I looked around as I shook my head while trying to loosen myself, “Juni wouldn’t do th
THIRD POVThe shouts of victory filled the whole kingdom and Jonathan had a smile on his face. Their recent wars had been filled with happy screams and shouts as they nabbed victory after victory. SOme of the kingdoms that waged war against them were slowly withdrawing from the crushing defeat some of the other kingdoms had suffered in their hands but he also knew that it didn’t matter, they had to keep up their defenses. They couldn’t afford to back down now, he also knew that the wars had done them a favour, while they didn’t confer to the other kingdoms standards, they could also finally leave the title of being a rogue kingdom behind. They had proved their worth and also proved that they weren’t people that could be messed with or played around with.He walked through the hallways, the guards bowing as he walked past them and then into his room. Kareem immediately reached for his armour and helped him remove it.“Congratulations your highness” both Kareem and Azarah choroushed as
“Amira, Amira, wake up, wake up” a strong jolting jolted me awake and I jumped on the bed with a fright. I turned to see Serena staring at me with wide eyes.“Are you okay?” She asked and the previous night memories came washing over me in an instant. The secrets I had found made a lump form in my throat. I had stayed in the medicine room, drinking in every detail and what I had found out had terrified me. It was a lie, it was a sham and I had walked into the room late to sleep.“Amira, Amira” Serena called again and I came back to myself while she stared at me with narrowed eyes.“Are you sure you're okay?” she asked and I quickly nodded my head.“Well, the king would soon leave for the war, I thought you might want to see him before he leaves” Serena said as she grabbed my hand, “Amira, talk to me, what’s wrong?” she asked and I turned to stare at Serena wondering whether to tell her what I had learned first but instead I got off the bed and rushed out of the door. I needed to tell J
I laid in my bed for half of the day, wondering and pondering on Juniper’s question. I knew that he was right and he had only been looking out for me and that was why he asked me that question but I didn’t like what he had asked at that point in time. I was merely trying to be happy and at that point, my emotions had plummeted.I knew that like Juniper, anyone who heard about me and Jonathan would have questions, valid questions. Like how did we all in love? Did we really love each other? Would I be able to forgive him? He was someone who had turned my entire life upside down, would I still be able to forgive him? How did I even dare to love such a man? He hadn’t told me to my face that he loved me but I knew and I was also yet to tell him that I loved him. I didn’t have to think so hard because I had gotten my answer a long time ago, fate and destiny had a way of playing games and the games they had played with me and Jonathan were unfair games, games that shouldn’t have been played