ROSHIDA
These days, everything seems less interesting to me. I couldn't find myself smiling or finding joy in little things.“Are you still like this? You're acting as if the King ahs told you to go back to your marriage with Felix.”If he had said that, I would have killed myself by now. I would do everything to make sure that I didn't go back to him and even after my death, he won't enjoy a single penny from it.“What difference does it make between what he said and that? If I die, my father's lineage will be wiped out and someone else will take over. Someone who's probably not worthy of the throne.”I couldn't imagine it. My father's line dying out, that's why he had four children because he wanted to make sure his line continued at all costs.“But I still don't see any reason why the prince can't go alone. Why can't he go alone? He's no longer a kid. Or is he all talk until it gets to actual missions?”My mROSHIDA When I went back to the h Capital, the prince wasn't around so I had to sit and wait for him. I was advised to leave and come back but making the hour there was not exactly my favorite thing to do so I just stayed. My house isn't exactly close to this place and I only make the journey because I have to. This time around, I didn't stay in the waiting room since it wasn't the prince I was here to see. The prince had his own waiting room and I was the only one there. Well, I was the only one there at first before another man walked in. He didn't say a word to me and just went straight to his seat. The maids came in and served him wine while he just sat back and drank like he owned the place. “Is there anything else that you need, sir?” “Not at all, you may leave.” He didn't look like an alpha. I know I
ROSHIDA For some reason, I was having a change of heart. Maybe it was because I had spent less than ten seconds looking at Valfred and more than two minutes talking to him. After hearing the plan yesterday, I figured that it was going to be a lot of work but it'll even be more work for me if I didn't have the slightest interest in it. And I didn't want anything that would stress me in any way. I might as well try to act like I want to do this, maybe I'll hate it less. But just because I was about to go on a suicide mission soon, didn't mean my work load had lessened. I still had a whole lot to do in my pack and in the Fortress. There was paper work to be filled, guards to be trained and a throne to sit on. I still needed to listen to the issues that were brought before me. That alone could take up the entire day. Later that evening, I decided to leave the pack and go to the Fortress. If we were going to need
ROSHIDAIf I wasn’t dead before, I sure as hell would be dead now. I had just talked back to the King and not just that, I’d told him that he was wrong.The King was silent after that and I stared at him square in the eye because despite the fact that I knew that I had done the right thing, it still didn’t stop the fact that I had gone against the King’s laws and I had changed it. Also, he didn’t look very happy about it.It was one of the elders who spoke up instead of the King.“How dare you speak to the King that way? Perhaps you do not know how things are done here as you are a woman. You must never speak to the King in that manner.”What did that have to do with anything?“Perhaps it is you who do not know that the King put me in this position. Am I no longer allowed to plead my case or will I be executed before I am proven guilty?”He opened his mouth to speak but the King raised his hand and stopped him. The court doors opened and Valfred walked through. I forgot that he was a
ROSHIDA“If I may ask, what makes you think that you should get the house and the child? To the best of my knowledge, you already have a new wife, a baby on the way and you have the house so why do you still want a child from your last marriage?”The pig couldn’t say a word and he kept stuttering.“My King, the child is mine. I don’t need a reason to want him. This woman has no money and no home. How would she feed him? According to the law, I can take everything away from her as long as I don't want to be married to her anymore. She has no right to anything.:”I hope they could all hear just how ridiculous it was sounding.“So by the time you take the child away from her what do you think will happen to her?Have you thought about that?”He looked at her.“My king, look at her. She’s old, ugly and thin. I don't care about her anymore. She could do what she wants with her life. I just want her to be gone so I can raise my child and live with my family.”I wanted to slap him. So hard.“
ROSHIDA After the meeting, I had to see the King personally. I stood with my head facing the ground. “I must say, when the issue was reported to me, I was livid. Infact, I was so mad that I thought that at the end of the day, I'd strip you of your title. This has never been done before.” I thought my head was going to be gone too. “You will play a very valid role for your people, Luna. And I can already see that you're going to be not just their leader, but their friend too.” If I was going to be a good leader, then I'll step on toes. A lot of toes. “Thank you, my King. I just did what I thought was right. Thank you for hearing me out. And thank you for helping that woman. She would have had nothing if not for you.” He waved it off.“Oh, it's nothing. I mean, you opened my eyes to see how ridiculous it was that her husband got to laugh last after everything. I'll take a better look at the othe
VALFRED When I heard that my father’s court was in session, I rolled my eyes. I knew that there was no way that I could miss out on it no matter how much I wanted to. It was always so boring and aggravating. But when I heard that Roshida was involved, I didn't think twice before leaving my mother and rushing all the way there. What is the matter this time? The way she was able to stand up for herself despite being in front of my father and his cabinet made me quite impressed. The fact that she had changed not just one law was a brave move and I knew my father frowned against every form of disrespect and everything that seemed like one was going against him. The way she spoke so proudly, knowing that she had done the right thing got to me and I couldn't bring myself to look away from her. Even when Elder Rossi seemed to frustrate her efforts, she spoke back at him. He was the major reason I hated being in court. He
ROSHIDA After replying everything to Sophia as it happened, she sat beside me in awe. “Woah, I have to say that you really have some balls. You stood up to the king and his elders?” That man who thought he could make things work out in his favor was going to be my biggest fan, ironically. He was going to make things hard for me now that I was going to be in the legislative council. “Oh, did I add that the King wants me to be a part of the legislative council? I guess something good comes out of trouble.” My mind cast back to the palace and I saw Valfred’s face when I was speaking about Felix. I didn’t get to thank him but I was really grateful for what he did for me. The way he stood up for me like we had spoken about it before, not minding if his father would get mad at him for taking sides. “What did you just say?” I looked at Sophia as I popped a grape in my mouth.“What are you talking about?”
ROSHIDA I stood in the centre of the room, staring at myself in the mirror as the seamstress moved around me like a merry-go-round, putting pieces of material together and sewing them together. “Do we really have to do this? Can’t you just take my measurements or something?” I’d finally sent the reply back and since there was just a day left, we had to get the dresses ready. It was quite sad that I could not wear my normal black leather outfit. Apparently, everyone had seen me in it. “Isn’t the cleavage a little low? I don’t need men staring down my top. Close it up,I'm uncomfortable.” As if life was against me, Sophia entered the room. “Hold on a minute. What are we closing up?” “The Luna said she didn't want the cleavage to be so low so we’re going to close it up. Although, that will be a very sad thing because I must say you have a pair of very nice breasts.” It was weird to hear that from anyone, esp
ROSHIDA I woke up as soon as he did. Maybe it's because my brain already knew that he was leaving or because I was laying on him and I knew when he moved to get off the bed. I stayed awake while he moved around the room trying to get ready. “Borge said to meet him at the gate.” To be honest, I didn't want him to leave. He was one of the only people that made being here less terrible.. I guess Sophia was right when she said that he was a good person. She was a good judge of character. Before I married Felix, she'd told me that there was something off about him. I thought it was just because she didn't know him, I mean, I didn't know him either so of course something would be off about him. But everything had been wrong with him. I wanted to walk him to the gate so I could say goodbye to him but I didn't want to be out yet. I might bump into the Matron. “Would you be fine without me?” “
VALFRED “Did something happen?” She shook her head. “Everything is fine. Why do you ask?” I knew there was something wrong. Her attitude had changed. “Are you mad at me because I forced you to eat?” She turned to me.“What? No, you were just trying to help. I just-” She took a deep breath obviously thinking about whether she should say something or not. “Coast came in her today, saying things about you and it got me mad.” I don't know what that bastards issue was. I knew that he had eyes for Roshida but I didn't know it had gotten to the point where he would come in when I was away just to see her. “You don't have to let him bother you. He's a bastard. He won't disturb you again.” I'll deal with him when I get the chance to. Maybe now was my chance. “Give me a moment. I'll be back.” I left the room and went out into the main tent. If he had an i
ROSHIDA“What are you trying to say, my prince?”“Gosh, not again. Don't tell me we're back to that. I thought we were past that.”I thought we were past it too but clearly….“Ro, listen. I'm not trying to accuse you of anything. I'm just trying to help you out..you haven't eaten anything in days and you expect me not to do anything about it?”I wasn't in the mood to talk about this.“I don't know what you want me to say. There are other people who haven't eaten too. Why don't you bug them?”“Because they are not my wife! You are. I thought I told you that it'll be fine. Why aren't you eating? I'm not trying to fight with you or blame you when you're the victim. I take full responsibility for what happened that day and if I could take the pain too, I would.”I wanted to say something but the words failed me. I thought he wouldn't notice. He was always very busy with work and I thought it would be an oversight for him..“Sonia told you, didn't she?”He didn't even try to deny it.“She
VALFRED“Tomorrow, before the sun comes up, meet me here. If you fail to show up, we can still leave without you.”As much as I didn't want to leave Roshida, I had to.The night before, I returned back to the tent and she was sitting on the bed.“What are you doing?”“You’re back early. Why?”I didn't want to talk about that right now. I sat down beside her and gave her the food I had brought for her.“Thank you. Sonia was here earlier to look for you.”Hearing her voice and seeing her face were like power pills for me. It made me so refreshed and everytime I felt down, I always knew that her voice was enough to make me strong.Maybe it was the fact that she was well rested but she looked prettier today.“Do you know what she wanted?”She shook her head.“I’ll go look for her then. In the mean time, I'm leaving tomorrow before the sun comes up.”I tried to read her expression, I couldn't. There was no smile, there was no frown, there was no squeezing of any muscle.Did she even care a
ROSHIDA“You have to be joking, right?”I looked at him and didn't blink so he'd know that there was no atom of humor in what I said.“Do you want her to come drag me here by my hair again? I'm trying to avoid trouble so just let me go. I'll be very careful.”Sonia entered the room.“Valerie, why're you on your feet? Why're you out of bed? Where are you going?”Great, another person to yell at me.Valfred turned to her.“Its good you're here, maybe you can talk some sense into her. She wants to go to work. In this condition, work!”Sonia turned back to me.“Val, what is this? Why are you talking about work when you're not fully healed? Your wounds haven't even begun to scar. Stop joking around and just stay home.”Someone called her name outside so she left.“Even after what she did to you, you still want to go out there and act like nothing happened. This may all be a plan, but what she did to you was not a plan. Your injuries are real, Ro. Stop trying to ignore it. And until you're
ROSHIDA“Where did you find a bed? I thought we couldn't have any of those?”He gave me the drugs to take.“And where did you get these?”There was no answer from him.“Valfr-”“Just let it go. It doesn't matter, does it? You're already on the bed and you've already taken the drugs so just let it go.”That was the first time he had ever raised his voice at me and I didn't even know what I did.I didn't say anything after that because there was nothing to say.I knew I couldn't sleep so I turned my head away from him and faced the wall.Did I do something wrong?Was he mad at me for getting to trouble?If I'd known that the matron had a thing against us eating, I would have hidden the food when I saw her coming.Maybe it was my fault, really.Maybe he got into trouble and that's why he's mad at me..“I’m sorry.” We said at the same time.“Ro, no. You did nothing wrong and you have nothing to be sorry for. Infact, I should be the one apologizing. I should have been careful and warned yo
ROSHIDAIt was my fault. I should have hidden the food just like Sonia did when we saw her walking towards us. But I didn't think we were doing anything wrong.I didn't think that eating was now a punishable crime so that is why I wasn't bothered.I could barely keep my head up. I could barely speak when Sonia came to my side and told me not to worry. I was going to tell her that I wasn't worried but how would I speak?My back felt like there were a thousand little pins in them, all pricking me at the same time.My body was too weak, too wounded and I felt so happy when she walked away complaining of being tired. It was only a matter of time before I started crying and begging for mercy and I didn't want to give her that satisfaction.Despite being in and out of consciousness, I could still hear some people laughing. Well, I guess it's good to know that some people were happy with what happened.I could hear Regina's voice but I couldn't make out what she was saying and I didn't get
VALFREDWe'd spent almost a week here and this is what I've gathered so far..Being at the gate meant that I got to be in front.and see a lot that was going on..it also meant that I got to see people from the pack and interact with them a bit.I'd make a couple of “friends” who made my life somewhat easy by making sure that I wasn't bullied and making sure that I was fed and had all the information that I needed.They were also the ones I was asking for information and even if they didn't give me a lot, they gave me what they knew..Officially, there was no head or leader but there was a man who they all reported to.Borge was the second in command to Cleave.I guess Cleave was the man we had seen earlier.As for the numerous invasion of packs, that was because there was a plan.No one knew what it was yet but it was against the Lycans and it was pretty serious because they were gathering a lot of slaves and it didn't seem like they just needed them for house work.I had just a week h
ROSHIDAWe got up even earlier the next day for some damn reason.And even then, Valfeed wasn't by my side. Even after I finished getting ready, I didn't see him so I figured that he had been called out at some point.Which meant he didn't get enough sleep.We were already scrubbing floors and toilet bowls before the sun was up. Hopefully today, we'll get to cover more ground than before.“I'm going to try to avoid that woman today. I don't know what her beef against me is but whatever it is, I'm trying to keep away from it.”It was very obvious that this was Borge's room because of the disgusting smell that was coming from it and also the fact that he was lying in a pile of his own vomit.“Can I not do this? I don't want to clean this. What to switch?”Sonia entered the room to see why I wanted to switch and she laughed..“Hell no. He seems to like you so, he's your special case.”As I stood there looking at him, I didn't know what to do. Waking him up meant waking trouble up. I was