The fact that I had known the basics had stunned everyone in the room and all of the healers stared at me with wide eyes including Masoma and I enjoyed the feeling for a long time. I loved surprising people especially when they treated me like someone who knew nothing because I was a Princess.“How do you know them?” One of the healers asked with an unfriendly gaze, “These aren’t the usual types of herbs you would find anywhere, they are wild types” she added and I scoffed.“They are wild types so because I am a Princess but there’s no way for me to know right?” I asked and the girl immediately looked away.“You shouldn’t judge me or underestimate me please” I said turning to Masoma, “All you know about me is that I’m a princess whose father killed the father of your king and I caused my father’s death too. Asides that, you know nothing and that is enough for you not even to come to a conclusion about me” I said and the first healer snorted.“Caused your father’s death? And you can st
“Take her to her room” Jonathan’s voice cut through my tears and I raised my head to stare at him.“Why won’t you let me go?” I cried as one of the guards slowly pulled me up and dragged me away. I sobbed softly as he took me to the room and I crawled into my bed facing the wall.“Do you need anything?” the guard asked but I didn’t reply and just continued sobbing.It was a long time since I had missed home. Missed the weather, missed my father, missed my mother, missed my room and missed my life, literally everything. For so many reasons, I didn’t understand why Jonathan was keeping me here. My life was already a hell. He already killed my father to take revenge, if he wanted complete revenge, he could have killed me but he didn’t. I have suffered and wished that I was dead. I was dead inside already and it was only a matter of time before I was dead physically.“Dad” I whispered as I sobbed incessantly.I wanted to go home. I wanted to leave this place. I just wanted to leave. I di
I remained in my bed the next day, I couldn’t go ahead and clean Jonathan’s room like nothing had happened. I was tired all of a sudden and I was also at a loss on what to do as well. I couldn’t have a life here yet I wanted to live. In my usual hard times, it was always Juniper’s words that I should be grateful that I’m alive that kept me going. Being alive meant that one day, I would leave, that one day things would change, that one day, I would be able to have my own life.I raised my hand and stared at the bracelet that was a chain on my hand, never to be removed, it was a constant reminder that I was a slave and I closed my eyes again. When I had replied to Serena, she had pulled me in for a hug and I had sobbed ever so hard. I thought I was doing fine alright but the clinic had brought back so many memories for me, broke the false facade I had created for myself and made me realize that the life I claimed I was living was a total lie and they were right. If only they let me live
I stared at the door of Jonathan’s room not knowing whether to walk in or not. Unlike before, I refused to run away even though Serena had asked me to wait it out. Nobody knew how Jonathan had taken or felt when I had spoken to him like that and deep down, I was still surprised because instead of getting mad, I pushed the door open and stepped inside. Jonathan was wrapping his wounds by himself and even though he was having a hard time with it, he merely glanced at me and continued bandaging.I remained rooted to the spot watching as he finished bandaging himself with much difficulty. As he turned to me, he stared at me with an unreadable expression and I swallowed.“Good morning Your Highness” I greeted, bowing my head.“Are you feeling better now?” He asked and I immediately whipped my head upwards to him, surprised at his question.“What?” I breathed.“Are you feeling better now?” Jonathan repeated his question and tears rushed to my eyes.“I will feel better when you let me go” I w
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
‘He’s doing way much better’‘Masoma said he would be fine by tomorrow morning. He’s the King and an Alpha, he has better healing abilities than anyone’That was what Serena had told me but I needed to see him for myself. I needed to make sure that he was alright. So I pretended to sleep first, waiting till Serena and Julianna were fast asleep, their breathing even, before I got up from my bed and sneaked out of the room. I walked silently along the corridors, inwardly praying that I wouldn’t meet a guard on the way and that Jonathan would be alone.Not that I was happy that the Moon goddess heard my prayers but I didn’t meet a single guard on the way and by the time I got to Jonathan’s room, I placed my ear on the door to listen if there was anyone in the room but it was an eerie silence that greeted me. I pushed the door slowly and peeped into the room, Jonathan was laying on his bed fast asleep and there was no one else in the room. I closed the door behind me and I tiptoed towards
‘He’s doing way much better’‘Masoma said he would be fine by tomorrow morning. He’s the King and an Alpha, he has better healing abilities than anyone’That was what Serena had told me but I needed to see him for myself. I needed to make sure that he was alright. So I pretended to sleep first, waiting till Serena and Julianna were fast asleep, their breathing even, before I got up from my bed and sneaked out of the room. I walked silently along the corridors, inwardly praying that I wouldn’t meet a guard on the way and that Jonathan would be alone.Not that I was happy that the Moon goddess heard my prayers but I didn’t meet a single guard on the way and by the time I got to Jonathan’s room, I placed my ear on the door to listen if there was anyone in the room but it was an eerie silence that greeted me. I pushed the door slowly and peeped into the room, Jonathan was laying on his bed fast asleep and there was no one else in the room. I closed the door behind me and I tiptoed towards
As I walked back to the palace, I paused and stared at the sky. It was full of stars and the moon was round and full illuminating everywhere. It was a beautiful sight and I shook my head before I slowly made my way back to the palace.Listening to Juniper talk about the fact that the person he was in love with was in love with the king broke my heart and what broke my heart even more was hearing him say that she might be forced onto Jonathan as his Queen, his Luna. My ears had prickled at the thought. My mind went back to the conversation I and Juniper had and I swallowed.“Have you tried speaking to her? Telling her about your feelings?” I asked and Juniper laughed.“That should be so funny to you, Ami. You want me to tell one of the high chief's daughters that I am in love with her” Juniper replied before chuckling, “No. Even a mad person won’t do that. I’m a slave Ami, we are slaves. We don’t get that kind of life well except it’s another slave I’m falling in love with” he added an
I walked out of the palace, the sun rays falling on me and making me furrow my eyebrows in displeasure. Masoma apologizing to me wasn’t something I had seen coming, her apology in truth was late but I knew deep down that I needed it. I knew that I needed her to apologize, to tell me that she was wrong in the first place for slapping me, treating me like that and taking the side of everyone else. I wanted her to admit that she was wrong and when she finally did, the only thing it made me feel was relief and nothing else. I wasn’t more happy or excited nor did I want to even rekindle our relationship. I wasn’t interested in making any new friends ro restoring the ones I had lost. I walked straight ahead to the Kitchen.I needed to ask juniper a few things. Like what might have gotten the king sick, Juniper had a flair for gossip and he always knew things that happened. I was already used to that so whenever I had a pressing issue, he was my go-to person.I had tried to check up on Jonat
It took one conversation for me and Jonathan to get back on friendly terms with each other. And just like that, we were back to before where we talked like friends and even joked together. My radiance was slowly crawling up my face and it was so funny and interesting to see another side of Jonathan. A side that not a lot of his people had seen or will even see. I know that he cared for me, even though it was just a little bit, it showed in his everyday life and how he treated me and I knew that he wasn’t lying when he said that he hated me.We had gone past that.But I hadn’t. I was yet to go past that. The truth was there and so was the reality. I still remembered what Juniper had told me about his parents, how they had died one after the other and how Jonathan had locked himself up with their corpses for two weeks straight. He was still a very young boy back then and I wondered how the young boy would have felt seeing his parents die and all of his emotions, how it would have been
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
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
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
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