I burst into laughter at Serena’s words because I was more than sure that she didn’t know what she was saying.“You disagree?’ I asked again and Serena nodded her head.“Yes. He didn’t look like that, didn't act like he didn't. I know it's crazy to think about it but he’s like you. He definitely loves you” she reaffirmed and I laughed again.“You don’t know anything Serena. I promise you that he doesn’t” I informed you.“Everything he has done for me is a calculated move to make sure that I remain here because I’m the only reason that your kingdom won’t be attacked by my people. To him. I am merely leveraged so he needs to do everything to keep me here willingly” I revealed and Serena stared at me, her jaw dropping.“So tell me again Serena that he loves me” I said chuckling, “He did say something along the lines of he didn’t hate me” I added turning my face as I closed my eyes.I hadn’t imagined that I would be discussing the king with Serena. It was already a lot of comfort to know
Jonathan seemed to have gotten enough of the fact that I was ignoring him because as I cleaned his room that morning, he kept saying all sorts of things to make me talk to him, sorry I replied with a one-worded answer and so I merely met his eyes as a reply.My rationality was back and I was much calmer than before. I had had a lot of time to think about what my next decision would be and what the consequences of every decision would be.“Are you ignoring me Princess?” Jonathan asked and I lowered my head.“I dare not your majesty” I quickly replied pausing and Jonathan groaned, obviously frustrated.“Why won’t you talk to me?” He complained and I raised my head to meet his eyes.“There’s nothing this slave has to say to his royal highness” I replied and Jonathan sighed.“May I take my leave, your highness?” I asked and Jonathan slowly opened his eyes, meeting my eyes.“How long Amira? How long?” he asked as he walked to the door and closed it, turning the door knob.“Your highness” I
I didn’t dare tell anyone about the fact that I had gotten a wet dream about the king. I didn’t even dare go to clean his quarters for a while and asked Serena to help me out under the guise that I was sick because I was terrified that if I saw Jonathan, those images would strat conjuring themselves and it would be grossly embarrassing.Serene didn't let me off and teased me endlessly about the fact that I had gotten a wet dream. It made her amused but I would always scowl whenever she mentioned it. I remembered our conversation that evening. I was still dazed, ashamed and embarrassed that I had gotten a wet dream about Jonatan and that wasn’t all. I had moaned his name right to reality and like Serena had said, I was really grateful that Julianna wasn’t in the room because by then, I’ll have to explain to her wh I was moaning his highness name. I didn’t think I could come up with whatever lie that she would believe she wasn’t going to be sold for it. Not especially when she had a ma
“So have you thought about what you want to do next?” Juniper’s voice infiltrated my thoughts and I chuckled, shaking my head. My eyes went to my wrist and I easily noticed the scars around my wrist had almost slowly faded away. It was almost unbelievable that my little paste had worked. I had made some mre for Serena and Julianna and they had joked about how they might willingly offered themselves to be test subjects.“How are you and the king recently?” Juniper asked again and I met his eyes shrugging.“Very ordinary” I replied and Juniper furrowed his brow, “What do you mean by very ordinary?” he asked and I laughed.“Exactly what it means. There’s nothing special” I replied softly.The truth was that there was nothing special indeed. For some reason, I and Jonathan had returned to our former routine but with less talking. I wasn’t as interested in speaking to him anymore and while he didn’t know why, I knew.I had to get rid of my feelings for him first and while out of sight, out
Triss.The realization stunned me so much that I didn’t know that I was frozen on the spot. I stared at the paper and I squeezed it unconsciously. Triss had someone find her way to the Berg Kingdom. Couldn’t believe my eyes. I opened the crumpled paper again and stared at it and the handwriting stared back at me.It hadn’t changed and I knew that I wasn’t wrong. It was Triss’s handwriting. I started walking towards the palace, my heart beating in my chest. Just a few minutes ago, I was thinking that the Berg kingdom was imprentable and yet Triss had done so effortlessly. I didn’t know how long it had taken her to find me or to find someone who would deliver the information to me. I wondered if the person who had squeezed the paper into my hands knew what was in it.Triss.My younger sister had shown her ability again. She had show how stellar of a princess she was. I headed to the medicine room instead of the room because I could hear Serena’s and Julianna’s voices in the room. They
Then I waited.I counted the hours till it was past 10pm. I slowly opened my door and stepped out. Serena’s and Julianna’s voice had long quietened down and I knew that they had gone to sleep. Serena had come in earlier to check on me in the medicine room where I was pretending to work on something when clearly I couldn’t do anything. My chest was in disarray and I could only look forward to seeing my sister. I pulled the cloth on my shoulder upwards and covered my head and my face with it as I hurried down the walkways. I had never been out at this time of the day and because I was too much in an hurry and in distress, I had forgotten to check how the guys patrolled the palace but the truth was that, there were fewer guards patrolling the palace, very few people could dare to attack the king or even try to infiltrate the palace. The Berg kingdom itself was imprentable so there was exactly nothing much to raise their guards against. The Berg kingdom was also deep in the forest, if an
I had told myself that I had made a decision but deep down I knew that I hadn’t but the greater part of me knew that Triss was right. I had to leave, this wasn’t my home and leaving with all of the Berg’s kingdom’s secrets with my head raised high was the best form of revenge that I could do r have but as I laid on my bed and stared at the ceiling, I was conflicted and the fact that I was conflicted further even annoyed me more. How could I be conflicted?This was a matter between staying in an enemy kingdom because someone I claimed to love who clearly didn’t love me back was here and saving my people. How could I be conf;icted on what to do?I shut my eyes taking deep breaths over and over again. Seeing Triss had brought the feeling of home back and I missed home. Her words rushed into my head and a small smile slowly formed on my face.Uncle Stefan.My favourite uncle in the whole world. He was one of the few people in the royal family that I was close to and one of the few people
Waking up the next morning with a heavy heart was expected. It took me a long time to dress up and by the time I got to the entrance of the King’s room, I paused slightly. I had to deal with Jonathan again.Taking a deep breath; I slowly knocked on the door and drifted into my ears. I pushed the door open to see that Jonathan was on the floor doing pushups with one hand. One of his hands was behind his back as he lowered himself to the ground over and over again. His upper body, which I had seen so many times, was soaked with sweat and Instinctively swallowed as I watched him.“Should I come back to your highness?” I asked and Jonathan chuckled.“No” he replied as he lowered himself to the ground and upwards a few times before He finally stood up, his whole body drenched in sweat. I stared at his upper body and followed the trail of the sweat as they ended into his trousers. My eyes snapped upwards and meant Jonathan’s amusing eyes, I immediately lowered my eyes.“My apologies, your h
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
It took less than a day for the news to spread across the kingdoms, across the Zadok kingdom. I wasn’t surprised but it spread faster than I thought, everyone in the kingdom was talking about it. There was a myriad of emotions, shock, surprise, confusion, appellation among many others.The King of the Berg Kingdom who had imprisoned me was asking to marry me.The people couldn’t believe it. He had imprisoned me and yet he fell in love with me and so the story of clearing my father’s name circulated. My people jumped up in joy and in celebration because it meant a lot to us. It did mean a lot to us and that aside, it made a powerful kingdom like the Berg kingdom our allies, our friends and maybe our soon to be in-laws. It felt the kingdom in a state of euphoria.Along with those two news, so many stories and rumours started to spread around the kingdoms. Rumours like I had intentionally gone to the Berg kingdom to find out the truth and I had endured humiliation because I wanted to cle
The trip to the Zadok kingdom was slower mainly because of how huge the entourage was, we couldn’t rush through the trip. Serena and I kept our conversations through the trip, making each other laugh and talking about so many random things. We ate the cookies and the drinks packed for us in the carriage and my heart beat faster with every landmark we passed that signified that we were getting close to the Zadok kingdom. My anxiety clogged at my throat and I was trying my very best to remain focused despite all of the mental stress I was going through.my anxiety didn’t escape Serena’s eyes as she kept assuring me over and over again that it was going to be fine and then we go to the Zadok kingdom, I held my knuckles till the turned whites as we rode through the kingdom, I didn’t have to look outside to know that people were already coming out of their homes and they were staring. I didn’t dare to look outside because I didn’t know they would look at me, what they would think of me. The
Leaving The Berg Kingdom had invoked emotions in me that I couldn’t describe. It was unbelievable that I was finally leaving. As I climbed into the carriage with Serena behind me, tears welled in my eyes asI stared at the horde of people who had come to wish me goodbye. I couldn’t believe it. Serena got into the carriage with me and the door was closed.“Are you okay?” she asked, seeing my expression and I nodded.“I just can’t believe that I’m leaving, I’m going home” I whispered in reply and her hand immediately stretched out and covered mine.The night before, the people had hosted a campfire dinner for me showing me all the beauty of their culture. Their dances, their traditions, their usual practices, I had a good time laughing and watching in curiosity and amazement and even a a point while they danced, Masoma had pulled me to my feet and taken me to the center to dance with them, it was easy to learn some of the steps and soon I was in tune with them and the excited howls and wh
He loved me. He loves me.That was what Jonathan felt for me and I knew that he did in every way. Helping him get rid of his guilt and self beating up was one step fr him to admit that he loved me and that after everything that had happened, we both deserve a chance, a chance to be together, a chance to make everything right and we both agreed. We sat down in his room and talked about a lot of things and despite all of that, Jonathan still wanted me to go home, he wanted me to visit my father’s grave and pay my respects. He also wanted to apologize to my mother and my family for the chaos he had caused.Baring our hearts to each other made us way closer. We laughed at some of our thoughts,laughed at some of our memories and cleared up the misunderstandings we had built about each other during our stay with each other. It was a discussion that we honestly should have had long ago.And Serena hadn't lied at all. The people of the Berg Kingdom were so sorry. So sorry that it brought tear
My head spun.Princess? Princess? High Princess?The title of High Princess was only given to Princesses who were sent to other kingdoms as peacemakers, sometimes it was usually a marriage alliance or to act as an ambassador in the said kingdom. Serena was a Princess. I stared at him in shock, my lips parting but no one came out of my mouth.“You are a princess” I whispered and Serena chuckled.“I’m sorry I kept it from you” she replied softly and I blinked my eyes hard at her. I had heard too many things in a short while to even be fazed and bothered that she had hidden such a thing from me. “So why were you pretending to be a slave?” I asked curiously and Serena laughed.“I never said I was a slave” she replied and I froze on the bed, blinking as I searched my memories of when I first arrived at the palace. She had indeed told me that Jonathan had saved Julianna but she didn’t exactly say anything about herself, it was something I had missed and she as well had allowed me to conven
I slowly fluttered my eyes open and the movements made my head feel light. I closed my eyes and opened them a few times before I finally managed to open my eyes. The familiarity of the room was immediately registered in my head as soon as I opened my eyes. I was in Jonathan’s room.I was alive? I had survived?I turned slowly to see Jonathan’s head on the bed and he had slept off. He had most likely slept off while watching me. Instinctively my hand reached out to him and my fingers delved into his hair, rubbing his head softly.I was so grateful that I had gotten to tell that I love him. And then thankfully, I could tell him again. My hand went to my stomach and I could easily feel the bandages wrapped around my waist. My little movements woke Jonathan up and I watched with a small smile as he raised his head from the bed and stared at me with red eyes.“You are awake” he whispered, his voice hoarse and he quickly reached over me and pressed a kiss to my temple.“Thank you Princess, f