The wedding.It was finally in full swing, the entire palace was busy with my wedding preparations and a huge quarter of the palace had been cleared out for the people of the Berg kingdom who came to the wedding, every other day were for new fittings and for slowly packing me things, after my wedding, I was going to the Berg kingdom to be the new Luna, I was going to be their new queen, a queen they loved, a queen they adored and praised, that was what I was going to be. Because of the wedding preparations, even though Joathan and Serena were present in the palace, I barely saw them, I was shipped off from one room to another, one lesson to another but in truth there was nothing much to learn, I had learnt everything on my own before now, in a baid to prove that I was the better sister, I had done everything within my capability and now it all paid off.I could easily see the look of surprise on my teachers faces each time they spoke about a topic and I answered flawlessly. I could s
Weddings.I had always watched weddings take place inside of Zadok, my older cousins and some other family members and it always left a particular type of feeling on me. Back then, I never thought I would find someone of my own, felt foreign, felt like why would I even imagine that I would fall in love but years later, I was covered in the royal wedding regalia, the red veil covering my face as well. My chest was thumping harder than anyone, than everyone but it was from excitement, from happiness that the day has finally come, the day that I and Jonathan become husband and wife.My mother held my hand as we slowly walked the long terrain as my little cousins threw flowers at me and even though a veil was covering my face, I could make out people's expression, the excitement on their faces, they looked as excited as I did, they were happy for me. I could feel my mom’s palm getting sweaty, I didn't know whether she was nervous or too excited.“Mother are you alright?” I asked and my mo
I was now a married woman.The feeling was too much and I just couldn’t help but keep smiling, my smile was about to tear my mouth to the back. The wedding lasted till late in the night where I and Jonathan danced so hard and we retired to our beds in the early hours of the morning. I snuggled into Jonathan’s arms as we slept as husband and wife. It was beyond my imagination, the excitement I was feeling as Jonathan’s wife.By the next morning, we were done packaging and we were about to leave. I walked back to my room to stare at the place I had lived for so many years. I didn’t know how hot it would feel to leave. Of course I knew that Zadok would always be home but leaving in this way made it look as though I wouldn’t be coming back anytime soon and it made me laugh. The Zadok kingdom held a lot of memories for me and I was going to leave those memories behind. Luckily for me, the last few months I had lived in Zadok were full of happy memories and my terrible and worse memories w
I was now a married woman.The feeling was too much and I just couldn’t help but keep smiling, my smile was about to tear my mouth to the back. The wedding lasted till late in the night where I and Jonathan danced so hard and we retired to our beds in the early hours of the morning. I snuggled into Jonathan’s arms as we slept as husband and wife. It was beyond my imagination, the excitement I was feeling as Jonathan’s wife.By the next morning, we were done packaging and we were about to leave. I walked back to my room to stare at the place I had lived for so many years. I didn’t know how hot it would feel to leave. Of course I knew that Zadok would always be home but leaving in this way made it look as though I wouldn’t be coming back anytime soon and it made me laugh. The Zadok kingdom held a lot of memories for me and I was going to leave those memories behind. Luckily for me, the last few months I had lived in Zadok were full of happy memories and my terrible and worse memories w
I gathered my clothes upwards to make walking easier for me. It had been a month since I had arrived in the Elavan Kingdom, and I still had not gotten used to the rough pathways that served as hallways in the palace. It had been one month since I realized that I was going to fail and I hated it. It made me itch and it made me want to scratch my bones.The reason why I was the Elavan Kingdom in the first place drifted into my mind and I swallowed. My job was simple: make the Crown Prince, Karl Collins Edwards, marry me. A simple job that I had failed to do for the past month. As I increased my pace, I remembered standing in front of my father, my head held high, promising him the marriage scroll in two weeks.I also clearly remembered that the ministers in the throne room had clamored that my younger sister be sent instead. She was more beautiful and enchanting than I was. She would get the job easier than she would have but I was adamant on going; my mother’s pleas and reasoning had f
By the time I regained consciousness, I was in a dark room with the only light coming from a tightly closed, broken window. “Where am I ?” I asked none in particular as I staggered to my feet. The last thing I remembered was someone knocking me out. I quickly looked around the room, but it did not help; I tripped over something unknown and fell face down on the floor.“Oh my god,” I whispered as I pushed myself to my feet once more.I had been kidnapped. By who?I tried to find my way around the room again and found the door. I didn’t waste any more time and started banging the door heavily.“Let me out!” I yelled. I continued banging the door heavily, “Let me go!” I continued yelling and I hadn’t gotten the chance to continue banging when I heard the door opening from outside. I quickly shuffled some steps backwards and the door opened. The sudden burst-out light made me raise my hand to cover my face.“Why were you yelling? Do you want to break our eardrums?” The person who had ope
I didn’t know how long I had been in that room for. I had stopped counting and I had grown numb to everything that was happening. The room was immersed in less darkness because the broken window had gotten even broken and more cracks had appeared in it, letting in more streaks of light.I stared at the untouched plate of food a few meters away from me and hugged my legs tighter. Tears streamed down my cheeks at my situation once more. My father had died and I had killed him.I had killed him by being a useless daughter. I was so useless that I couldn’t even get him a marriage scroll that would solidify his position in the Council of Kings. I spent over one month trying to convince a bastard to marry me. I had long known that there was nothing like marrying for love as a princess, so I was barely bothered about the fact that there was no love between me and Karl. I just wanted to marry him for the benefits that it would serve my kingdom.It was the least I could have done for him but y
By the time I opened my eyes, there was a slight ache on my side and I found myself on the floor of a room I didn’t recognize. My memories came washing over me in seconds and I sat up immediately, pushing myself towards the wall. I just couldn’t fathom the fact that Jonathan had actually jumped after me and saved me.I had thought I was going to die; I did want to die. I had thrown all my hopes and dreams to the wind the moment I realized the amount of torture that was awaiting me if I tried to survive in the Berg Kingdom; it was even impossible to try to survive. I had already imagined the humiliation and the suffering awaiting me and besides, I was yet to forgive myself for allowing my father to be killed right in front of me and I couldn’t do anything. The only way to redeem myself was to die and who would have thought that Jonathan wasn’t having it? His words before I passed out rang in my ears and I shivered unconsciously. “Even if you want to die that badly, you cannot die with
I was now a married woman.The feeling was too much and I just couldn’t help but keep smiling, my smile was about to tear my mouth to the back. The wedding lasted till late in the night where I and Jonathan danced so hard and we retired to our beds in the early hours of the morning. I snuggled into Jonathan’s arms as we slept as husband and wife. It was beyond my imagination, the excitement I was feeling as Jonathan’s wife.By the next morning, we were done packaging and we were about to leave. I walked back to my room to stare at the place I had lived for so many years. I didn’t know how hot it would feel to leave. Of course I knew that Zadok would always be home but leaving in this way made it look as though I wouldn’t be coming back anytime soon and it made me laugh. The Zadok kingdom held a lot of memories for me and I was going to leave those memories behind. Luckily for me, the last few months I had lived in Zadok were full of happy memories and my terrible and worse memories w
I was now a married woman.The feeling was too much and I just couldn’t help but keep smiling, my smile was about to tear my mouth to the back. The wedding lasted till late in the night where I and Jonathan danced so hard and we retired to our beds in the early hours of the morning. I snuggled into Jonathan’s arms as we slept as husband and wife. It was beyond my imagination, the excitement I was feeling as Jonathan’s wife.By the next morning, we were done packaging and we were about to leave. I walked back to my room to stare at the place I had lived for so many years. I didn’t know how hot it would feel to leave. Of course I knew that Zadok would always be home but leaving in this way made it look as though I wouldn’t be coming back anytime soon and it made me laugh. The Zadok kingdom held a lot of memories for me and I was going to leave those memories behind. Luckily for me, the last few months I had lived in Zadok were full of happy memories and my terrible and worse memories w
Weddings.I had always watched weddings take place inside of Zadok, my older cousins and some other family members and it always left a particular type of feeling on me. Back then, I never thought I would find someone of my own, felt foreign, felt like why would I even imagine that I would fall in love but years later, I was covered in the royal wedding regalia, the red veil covering my face as well. My chest was thumping harder than anyone, than everyone but it was from excitement, from happiness that the day has finally come, the day that I and Jonathan become husband and wife.My mother held my hand as we slowly walked the long terrain as my little cousins threw flowers at me and even though a veil was covering my face, I could make out people's expression, the excitement on their faces, they looked as excited as I did, they were happy for me. I could feel my mom’s palm getting sweaty, I didn't know whether she was nervous or too excited.“Mother are you alright?” I asked and my mo
The wedding.It was finally in full swing, the entire palace was busy with my wedding preparations and a huge quarter of the palace had been cleared out for the people of the Berg kingdom who came to the wedding, every other day were for new fittings and for slowly packing me things, after my wedding, I was going to the Berg kingdom to be the new Luna, I was going to be their new queen, a queen they loved, a queen they adored and praised, that was what I was going to be. Because of the wedding preparations, even though Joathan and Serena were present in the palace, I barely saw them, I was shipped off from one room to another, one lesson to another but in truth there was nothing much to learn, I had learnt everything on my own before now, in a baid to prove that I was the better sister, I had done everything within my capability and now it all paid off.I could easily see the look of surprise on my teachers faces each time they spoke about a topic and I answered flawlessly. I could s
It was two weeks after Jonathan proposed to marry me and my mother confirmed if I wanted to marry him and with all of the culture and traditions that she sent her answer to Jonathan that the Zadok kingdom was excited to have them as their in laws. Jonathan had immediately sent over carriages of gifts and bethroral presents that made it the talk of the town, even Imyself was stunned but I knew that was just Jonathan’s way of telling me and everyone just how important I was to him. Our relationship was growing and growing and I couldn’t but bless the moon goddess some times.“Your highness, are you ready?” Elora asked and I stared at my reflection in the mirror again.“You can’t keep his highness waiting, you already look very beautiful” Elora added and I laughed standing up from my vanity table. Jonathan had come visiting, we needed to go through some customs together before marriage and I was so excited to have him at the Zadok kingdom, I couldn't wait to show him everywhere, my garde
With anger pumping through my veins, I walked across the hallways back to my room. I almost couldn’t believe what had happened, that Karl would somehow assume that I wanted him back. That somehow in his twisted mentality, I would still scramble for his attention, it brought back so many memories back for me and I almost felt like crying. Getting married to him was the reason everything had gone haywire. I had only begged for his attention back then because I couldn’t afford to come home empty handed, without his promise ring. If I knew that what I knew now, that my parents loved me very much and that they were proud of me, there was no way I would have allowed myself to be treated like rags back then. I would have come home.I didn’t know whether to be happy about the kind of experiences I had because all of them unfriendly or not, had led me to the love of my life so each time I almost wished I hadn’t met someone especially Karl, I’m forced back to take my words but something told me
Triss and Karl weren’t married.Finding out that Triss and Karl weren’t married was one of the shocking pieces of information I received after I came back to the Zadok kingdom. Triss wasn’t going to marry someone as lecherous as Karl, he was stinking and couldn’t keep his dick in one place and I knew that she couldn’t, at least I had experienced how much of a man slut Karl could be in time at the Eleven kingdom so when I found out that all they had was an arrangement and it was supposed to scare other kingdoms away and solidify our stand as a kingdom before we got back on our feet, I was genuinely shocked.I didn’t even know how to feel, happy or betrayed or at a loss, I somehow at the end of the day felt nothing. I wasn’t happy nor was I sad nor was I bothered about it. Triss had laughed about it and told me that I was the one who wanted to marry him, she wanted someone who was smarter and stronger and even though I had come back home, she still never forgot to throw jabs at me. My m
“Greetings your royal highness” the greetings kept repeating themselves as I and Elora walked past. A small smile remained plastered to my face as I kept walking.“I still sometimes find it hard to see everyone greet you like they adore you. The only part is that they truly adore you,” Elora commented and I laughed.It was true, they all did, the rumours and stories hadn’t quenched down even one bit. Even more absurd stories were spreading around and I hadn’t gotten tired trying to quench them down or correct them. More so, my mother said it was fine, as long as my reputation is being restored. It seemed as though everyone had long forgotten that for six months, I had been a slave in a strange land and I had suffered and had my status stripped off.Elora kept the fan blowing slowly as we kept walking. When I came back, Elora had jumped into my arms crying and weeping like a child. She spoke about her days in the palace without me and she had even gotten into a few fights in the last
It was easy for me to find my way to the royal ancestral grave. I walked past the grave of my grandparents and my great grandparents, my breath sucking in as I finally approached a newly made grave. Tears rushed to my eyes but I held it in as I finally came to stand face to face with the grave. My father’s name was written boldly on it with the year of his reign and seeing the quote at the top of his tombstone, I knew that my mother had written it. I bent down and slowly lowered the flowers I had brought to the grave. They were a bundle of fresh lilies I had specially woken up early to pick. My father loved lillies a lot and I knew that he would be happy to see me bring them.“Greetings father, Amira is home” I said slowly and softly but those words carried so much weight, so much weight that I couldn’t explain and my throat was clogged once more, I arranged my clothes and allowed myself to sit beside the grave staring into space.The sight of my father dying right in front of me was