Responsibilities

Days passed and Aster seemed evasive. I spent two days helping King Laurent get used to the palace and I am starting to get worried. Was I pushing Aster too hard away from me? Was I being too stubborn and too irrational about my actual standing in his life?

Being one of his concubines, I have no right to ask more for his time and attention. He was having so many responsibilities and he had already spent a lot of time with me while we were in Talaphatia. Maybe he was just trying to give more time to others and that is just fair, knowing I have been an apple of his eye since he announced me as one of his concubines.

"It seems you are thinking too deeply. May I know what bothers you?" King Laurent asked while we were having tea in the garden. I still have no courage to go to the library after what I found out there. And since then, I haven't had the chance to confront Aster about it. I even barely see him inside the palace anymore.

I smiled at Laurent but it didn't reach my eyes. It was