Chapter 43: XLIII: a mother's rage
"Your majesty, bad news!" Falling on his knees, the king's closest subordinate said without saluting.
"What happened?" The asked tiredly not liking the sudden disturbance if his important alone time.
"The prince . . .," The man began gasping for air without care for the sweat that rolled down his brow.
"What happened to the prince?" The king asked as he raised his hand to stop the women massaging an expensive ointment made of the rarest materials into his skin.
"The prince was taken by the werewolves on the border. A village was attacked and he went to help but he ended up getting caught."
The king sat up and looked at the man as he tried very hard to maintain his calm countenance as king.
"When did that happen?"
"We received a letter with the prince's ring just now. The werewolves took him. The letter was sent to the Queen."
"Where is the . . ." he stopped because the door flew open and the Queen ran to him and fell before him on her knees.
"The Princess . . . They want revenge. They said the princess harmed the Alpha. They took my son to revenge," the Queen began crying out her already red swollen eyes.
The king paused realizing what was happening. He wondered what took them so long.
"This is the letter," his subordinate said as he passed a high quality paper envelope with the red moon seal of the werewolves.
The seal was already broken as pulled the letter out calmly. He began reading what was written.
They were giving them two weeks to bring the princess to them or they will begin cutting off his son's fingers with every single day that passes.
He chuckled in a compilated manner that made it sound like he was crying. He stood up with a wool dressing coat wrapped around his tall frame and walked out of the room to his bedroom.
"Your majesty, it is our son. Will you let him die for the princess?" the Queen released a displeased and heartbreaking cry.
"No body is dying for anyone including the princess," the king said firmly before closing the door behind him as soon as he stepped into his bedroom preventing the Queen who was about to grasp his hand from doing so.
He rubbed his eyes. For so long. What took them so long to make their decision? He had already began feeling relaxed about everything.
He groaned as he walked to the large wardrobe and began dressing up. He had locked everyone outside so there was no one to wait on him.
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"What is the noise about?" Aurora asked her maid who had just run into the room and locked it behind her.
"It is the Queen, she is coming here with a few soldiers and maids. I don't know what is going on but I think she is coming for you," Helen replied hastily. She exhaled with her hand on her chest.
"Open the door if she wants to see me," Aurora said confidently.
She has been staying quietly in her room just like her uncle ordered her to while trying to come up with the right solution to the trouble she caused.
She saw no reason why her aunty, the Queen will come looking for her in such a manner.
"The king made me promise to keep you out of danger and from what I just saw, the Queen has a lot of bad things on her mind and she might hurt you," Helen replied her master firmly while maintaining an innocent look.
"I am your master, not the king. If I want you to open the door, then you will. Open it!!"
Helen shook her head. She remembered what she witnessed during their journey and she knew that she had to keep the Queen away from the princess.
She also remember that sorcerer told her only a little stimulation could make the princess hurt so many people without realizing it.
If anything happens now, there will be so many witnesses that it will be hard to keep the true nature of the princess secret as the king wished.
If the princess secrets get licked, their life will become really hard. For the first time in her life, she stood with her back against the door and met her master's gaze fearlessly.
"I will not open this door until it is certain that no one will get hurt," she told her master firmly.
Aurora's lips twitched obviously as she found the sight before her hard to believe. What gave this little brat the courage to talk to her in such manner?
"I am doing this for your sake." Her back was pressed against the door and she could not hide the trembling effect Aurora's intent gaze had on her.
"Open this door now or I will have them break it down," Aurora heard the hysterical scream of the Queen from the door.
"It sounds like something serious," Aurora mumbled thoughtfully as she continued towards the door now filled with so much curiosity to know what was happening.
"No . . .," was all Helen could say before she was pushed away gently but effectively from the door by her master.
This was the first time the Queen was coming to her chamber and she was very interested in knowing to what she owed such a visit.
Helen shook her head as she watched her master open the door and the door was pushed in by the Queen who immediately threw a slap which Aurora dodged effortlessly.
"What brings you here?" Aurora asked staring behind the Queen at the soldiers she brought along.
"You caused this. How could a child be born with so much badluck?" the Queen asked in disdain.
The Queen was angry that from the way Aurora dodged her slap, she won't be able to hit her the way she had planned to by coming to her room even with the soldiers since the princess was trained personally by the king.
"What makes you come to my room to make such comment?" Aurora asked with her patience slowly running out.
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