Sindro thought that how dumb and stupid his dad’s reasoning had been. He could not help but look at him strangely with pursed lips. After all, there was no way he could comment about it and could only be kept quiet.
“What option did you give him? Would you have changed to loving men if you were in his shoes?” Priscilla asked while looking at them curiously. There was a mysterious hint of tone in her voice.
“I will not discuss this further,” Theban said, and Priscilla kept on screaming at him, but he was numb.
“Why did I leave him alone when he needed me the most?” she asked herself. For a very long time, she had wanted to go back to the kingdom and look for her son.
Some days, she walked up till the border of the village then stood from a distance just to catch a glimpse of her son.
Other days, her fear of how he would react upon seeing her was bigger than her desire to see Sindro so she would walk back hom
“Give him to me,” Albert suddenly said, taking Gray from Jane’s embrace. At that time, he was not so sure how to really approach Jane about it. He could only look at her with a complicated expression.Just as he was close enough to grab Gray, the child seemed to not like his presence.Cause when he touched him as if on cue, Gray started crying, and no amount of pestering could calm him down.Jane’s door was partially opened, and Albert looked through to see if Georgina would be coming out but what had he expected.“Where is his mother?” he asked with a deep frown. He was looking at Jane with concern.“She shortly left after you left, said she was going to get some household necessities. I haven’t seen her since then,” Jane explained while looking at Albert with a small smile.Albert nodded. It seemed that there wasn’t much she knew, and it was also not
“No one can have access into this palace without being seen,” his second in command answered with a deep frown when Monike told him that he suspected someone had sneaked into the palace. If that really happened, it was a very big disgrace towards his authority.But what if it was really the case?“I’m sure there is,” Monike insisted with a frown, and then he continued, “Anyway, to be on the safe side, we need to increase security around the palace and be very vigilant.”His second in command nodded in understanding.With the task fixed, they made sure to check every person coming in and every person leaving this place.We cannot allow what happened to our boss Jackeline to happen again, Monike thought to himself with conviction.From a far, Gray could see how tight the security was that night. He was looking at everything with deep seriousness and concern. The more he looked, the more he rea
Grace was the daughter of the kind woman from the village who had helped Gray and Josh settle.Gray and Josh got close after Gray narrated his story to her. It might have been a pity, and Gray couldn’t tell. But Grace was really kind to them after that, and that was something both of them really appreciated.They were not, of course, idle when they stayed in the village.He borrowed books from them, and after reading Shakespeare’s books, he developed an interest in art and poem.“We are moving away,” Grace suddenly had told Gray seriously one day after they had joined their bodies in a union.Hearing this, Gray was startled. He could not help but look at her in confusion before asking, “Why? Where?”Before Grace could answer, she heard her mom calling her. Despite not knowing where they were going and why they were leaving, Gray still started packing. He then waited for her to return.But that had b
The next morning when they had all gotten out safely, by coincidence, they met near the water stream.“Why didn’t you tell me that it was him?” Esther angrily asked while looking at her brother’s reddened eyes. She was so worried that moment and could only vent it on his brother of her. This was really unacceptable! She felt betrayed.“What would you have done? Father isn’t going to listen to you plead my case just like he wouldn’t have listened to you,” Yasike answered.“It doesn’t matter. I should have known,” Esther said.She was upset, perhaps more than she had been, when she had broken to Gray the message about her marriage proposal.Sindro and Gray approached the siblings and told them that it wasn’t the time to fight.“We still need each other. It is better if we stay together,” Gray said.“I’m sorry. I had wanted to tell you the tru
“Will you also be a murderer like me? Do you want my blood on your hands?” She asked the king, and he suddenly let go of her, and she stumbled backward.When the lady had been taken to the village court, she had been forced to speak. King Ude realized at that moment that Jackeline’s parents had hidden the truth from them all but were that a reason enough to kill someone?Their lies had led to the death of their daughter and his beloved wife and mother of two children. What he would never know was that Jackeline had been expecting at the time of her death.It turned out that Jackeline had step-siblings. Her father, king Ozo, and her mother Olivia had known it all along but had maintained their silence.“How do we know you’re telling the truth?” Jacqueline’s murderer had been asked.“Here,” she lifted her blouse to reveal a birthmark. It was the café au lait spots birthmark. It was th
Silence. Silence. Silence. She thought it was over, but surprisingly, it hadn’t been.King Ozo kind of understood her and said her responsibility then was to the Yosundo kingdom, and that was what she ought to focus on.Jackeline’s murderer had revealed that with the help of her twin brother, they had decided to seek vengeance against Jackeline, who had made their mother forget them.They knew that killing Jackeline would hurt her the most.The truth was out, and it was decided that Jackeline’s step-siblings would be imprisoned for life.The day of the final tournament was fast approaching. Gray was ready and not ready.He would be fighting against Sindro, and he felt that even the powers of the goddess would not help him.His consolation somehow was the fact that Sindro was gay and that he would not have an interest in Esther.“Maybe he will publicly announce he is gay, and the king will announce
“I also hope you know that whatever you say won’t sway me from my decision. I have decided to atone for the mistake I made years ago. I am not scared of what you do,” Priscilla said in equal determination.“Do not say I didn’t warn you,” Theban said.Looking back at it, Priscilla realized that the cursed person was her husband and not her son.She didn’t understand how strong-hearted he was to still hold the fact that their son was gay against him. She realized that she had never been her own person as she had always blindly followed the rules her husband set.“Not anymore,” she said as she walked past Theban, who didn’t even look up to see her receding figure.Priscilla didn’t know where she would go if Sindro adamantly refused to forgive her. With her heavy bag, her journey was slow.She would occasionally place the bag on the ground, sit on it and wonder if she had ma
Yasike was in the field, perhaps also hoping that Sindro would appear from nowhere and that his plan would work.“Where is Sindro?” the crowd asked when they started getting bored.“Maybe he is afraid of this guy and has decided to withdraw from the tournament,” some said.“That would never happen. Sindro is so fearless and courageous,” another villager chipped in.“If he is, then why is he? Isn’t he here to get done with this once and for all,” others said.The quiet crowd was now full of mummers, everyone having their own version of why Sindro wasn’t in the field yet.They were still talking when they heard the whistle blow. They turned to look, but it was only Gray in the field yet.Then they saw it. At first, they thought that he was going down to announce the end of the tournament.The king was leaving his throne and walking directly towards where Gray was.