Xena waved her hands to Shastina to stop her confession. She heard approaching footsteps, her eyes swerved to the entrance of the dungeon expecting to sight a human coming in.“Your highness,” She said slightly, as Nneka's presence was revealed, she was seething with anger. She ignored the greetings.“What did you think you were doing? You brought the maids to the dungeon without my permission. You stopped them from performing their early morning responsibilities, did you want to wash and sweep in place of them?,” Nneka said cockily. She isn't the type that pretends whenever she's angry. She showed her true colors whenever she does.“Must I remind you, am responsible for the palace activities? You must take permission from me before you take any action,” she added in a stern tone.Where Xena stood, she was boiling with anger, she rubbed her two hands, trying to calm her nerves.“I'm the king's favorite concubine, your highness. I love to do whatever I want to do, moreover, the maids h
“Comes in,” The king's voice runs to her ear from the inside, her eyes traveling to her boobs, she expands the uncovered of her cleavage, opening more of her uncovered breasts.A chuckled sign on her face, as she pushed the door open.“My king,” Xena greeted the king and lowered her head.A sickening silence filled the room, the king didn't utter a word to acknowledge her presence. After a while, she raised her brows, wanting to confirm what the king was doing that made him refuse to acknowledge her.Just as she wanted to open her mouth, the king's voice interrupted, halting her throat from producing her creation.“Why are you here?” Alpha Malik's eyes left the documents in his hand, and rested on Xena, burning a hole in Xena's spine, with the unwelcome expression he held. “My king, I…,” She stammered, not knowing what to say, the expression on the king's face disorganized her, she could no longer deliver a good sentence.The king got tired of her silence, and he slipped down from t
“What for?” Jeanne asked as she raised the document in her hand, looking into Lena's for an answer. She furrowed her brows, when Xena kept mute, putting her into silence. “Xena, am I waiting for your explanation,” “The king needs a translator that can translate French into our language,” She replied in a curt. “Okay, how did you want to see a French translator? Since you can't possibly ask the queen to help, she is the only one that can read French, being a princess,” Jeanne said. “Not the Queen, the king thinks one of the maids might know how to read French,” Xena said, and Jeanne burst into laughter. “Why are you laughing?” Xena said, giving her a questioning look. “Why would the king think those wackos would be able to read the French language? They can't even read our mother language, Jeanne said, smiling. “Don't forget you could have been one of them, the wackos I hadn't taught you how to read our language,” Xena said bluntly. Instantly, Jeanne's smile seized, she couldn
Aurora stood beside a well, drawing water, the rope of the fetcher was too short, making it hard for her to pull out water easily.She sighed and cleaned the sweat beads forming on her forehead, just as she pulled out the last water, making the two buckets fill up.Sometimes, she pitied the people who were born slaves, whenever she worked tirelessly. She had been fetching water to all the concubine chambers since morning, Malik ordered Morena to make her fill all the concubine jars, including the king's chamber.She lowered, carried off the buckets, and placed them on her head, wanting to shift her concentration to the king's chamber. Likewise, she felt someone peeping at her. She gazed around, hoping to find the shadow creating fear in her.After meeting with failure, she let go of the thought and the feeling that someone was peeking at her, and she walked away.Just as she left, Mira came out of her hiding, she walked towards the well, and with a grin plastered on her face, she kick
Aurora gasped, feeling nervous. She looked stunned, meeting with an empty bucket. She paced up and down, trying to comprehend what just happened. ''Where is the water, I fell inside the bucket?” She picked up the bucket, and looked inside, hoping for magic to happen. “Who did this!?” She grumbled, tears gathered in her eyelids immediately, urging to pour down, as she recalled how stressful it was for her before she was able to fetch the water. The murderous beast in her awakened at that moment, she clenched her fist angrily, wanting to kill anyone who had just done this to her. At that moment, a maid, called Tira, passed, holding a bucket to come and fetch water. She's one of Mira's minions, she walked past Aurora and brushed her, she was foaming in anger, but she let it go without sparing Tira a gaze. Tira hissed and dropped the bucket in her hand beside the well. Wanting to pick up the fetcher, “Hey,” Tira called Aurora when she didn't see the fetcher. “Is there a clog in your
Aurora hesitated in answering the king's question, she wanted to avoid telling him, she understood the French language. Which maid would possibly know how to read the French language? It might make the king get more suspicious of her. What if the king asked me where I learned it? The thought filled her mind until Malik snapped her out of her thoughts. “Why are you keeping quiet?” The king asked, this was the first time she had seen a different expression on Malik's face, he looked curious. “No…. Yes,” she stammered. “Which one is No?, which is Yes?” Malik said, she looked at her face and looked away. His stare did the magic, Aurora couldn't resist looking at his faraway handsome look. It has been a long since she was able to look closely into his eyes as Aurora. She didn't know the reason, but presently, she was not afraid of him, she felt the king wouldn't hurt her for staring at him. “Are you with me?” Malik said, snapping her out of her daydreaming, he saw her lustful gaze at
“I'm talking, and you are still sitting,” Aurora hasn't allowed him to finish, when she raised, lowering her head to the ground.“My king…. Your Highness,” She stammered, she had seen this coming, knowing how the king got easily irritated at her, but she didn't know it would come this soon. “Speak, before I do something nasty,” He slammed his fist on the desk as anger surged through his veins. He was thinking maybe Aurora could change, but her lying again angered him to the core.“Your Highness, I fetched the water, but when I went back to carry it, I met an empty bucket and I couldn't find the fetcher likewise” Aurora shivered as she speaks, inwardly she was cursing the person that done it, she imagined of beating the person who does it. “And you expect me to believe it” “Your Highness, I'm not lying, someone poured my water away” Aurora repeated, Malik didn't reply, he moved away from him and slumped on his bed, he looked at Aurora, seeing how she lowered her head.“Everyone wil
Different things were entirely translated on the scroll, and the king's eyes devoured each line on both scrolls, aiming to sight any similar sentences, but still, his eyes didn't catch a related word. The documents were different from one another. Malik clenched his fist in and out in anger, his eyes darkened, not knowing the correct one among the two, “Who fool me among the two?” He thought. Detecting the right one was his priority, he wanted to start trading with the French, and he needed to know the rules, the risk, and the profits involved with them. The French had sent the proposal to him a long time ago, but he refused to acknowledge it, his minister tried to persuade him to do business with them, but he rejected it, but after his conversation with the masked girl, he became restless, yearning to find ways to make his community more prosperous, especially the poor and the needy. He thought of giving large town access to trade in his town, this will give his people access to make