"Nein was not around for the meeting. Nana, what was he doing? Was he sleeping with his countless harlots while getting drunk again?" Aaron asked and Nana's face twisted with hurt.She had come here with Aliyah for a different reason. Aliyah had told her about how Aaron had beat a certain man up because he had danced with her. She had come here to convince Aaron to marry Aliyah. She didn't trust Diamant and if Diamant became the Queen, she would lose power. But Aliyah, for her, was someone she could control. Wasn't she already blinded by the love she had for her Grandson?"I see. Once a spade, always a spade." Aaron said with spite to his father."I will see to it that he gets his work done. Don't worry, this won't affect the collection of the taxes." Nana tried to calm him down."You'd better." He relaxed and sat back on his throne."Well, I came here for a different reason." Nana said with a smile and Aliyah bowed her head coyly."What is it?" Aaron asked, his eyes questioning."We
He laid her on the bed and she looked back at him tiredly. He tucked her into bed, the candles he had just lit allowing light in the room."I don't know what to say. You did so much to save me, Diamant." He said while he sat next to her on the bed.She swallowed hard and closed her eyes."I thought I would die." She said quietly and he place a hand on her forehead in a bid to comfort her. She was burning slightly."I think you are sick, Diamant. I will get Doctor Rika here as soon as possible." Aaron said and stood up but Diamant stopped him."No! I think I am just so scared and I feel a little odd with all that roaring." He looked at her trying to see if it was true and she gave him a convincing smile.He came back and sat next to her. His eyes filled with affection. This woman had done everything to make sure he stayed alive, even to the point of sacrificing herself. She could have left him all alone there but she did not. She stayed for him, she must love him without her notice. I
Nana stepped into the room with a tray of teacup. She placed it on the table while Diamant watched her suspiciously."Who is that for?" "You, of course." Nana scoffed."I don't want it. Who knows, you might have had it poisoned." Diamant said and turned to the other side of the bed, her back to Nana."That is a great choice but I didn't poison it. Still, I wished I had." Nana eyed the teacup with annoyance and marched out of the room.Someone ran into her the minute she closed the door."You should watch where you are going!" She shouted at the person."I am so sorry, Nana. I so sorry." The person hurriedly said while trying to reach for Diamant's door."Wait. You look like one of the dungeon guards. You are, aren't you? It is only the dungeon guards that dress the way you do." Nana pried."Nana, please I am here for something important. I promise that I am not doing anything wrong. I only came here to see the Mother." The guard said hurriedly."Well the Mother is sick and why should
"Sire, a dungeon guard has been found unconscious in the dungeon! Minister Li has escaped." Lewis reported breathing heavily.Aaron stood up angry. He paced in the room."Has he been attended to?" He asked deep in thought."Yes, Sire. He is with Doctor Rika as we speak."Good. Take me to the dungeon, I have to see it myself." Aaron ordered. "I hope you kept guards there so that no one would disrupt it's original state, I need to know how Minister Li escaped." He said walking to the door."Yes, Sire. I did." He said, hurrying to catch up with him.******************************After looking at the dungeon and seeing that struggle surely had taken place and Li had skillfully escaped from them, Aaron wanted to see Sanji. It baffled Aaron that Li could break away. It had been a long time since anyone escaped from the dungeons and this was a blow to him. Why had it been under his reign?When they got there Nana was just leaving. He didn't say a word to her, he had to see Sanji quickly.
Sanji fell from being pushed in the dungeon. The chains weighed him down and hugged his legs tightly. He hadn't even gotten a chance to hug his wife, to tell his son those tales that he liked.He looked at the bars and shook his head in sadness. He had done an act of kindness and here he was paying for it.He looked at the bars again. He was once the guard and now, he was the prisoner.******************************"How? How did this even happen?" Nana said, her little body shaking in rage. She moved closer to the bar.Sanji stood up and looked back at Nana, his eyes sad."Don't worry, I didn't implicate you. I told him I did it all. I told him that Minister Li manipulated me to set him free and I planned the whole setting." Sanji said.Nana sighed relieved."But why did you tell him anything at all?" He said moving closer to the bar.Sanji sat back down feeling drained. "He suspected about the chains." He said then explained how it had all happened.When he was done, Nana gritted
Nana had to eat her lunch alone today. The maids cleaned up her plate and she dismissed them once again. She looked at the sunny sky through the big windows opposite her and it hurt her eyes but she couldn't stop staring, she hoped that looking like this would help her but when it didn't, she looked away. She had said there were a thousand ways to overcome an hurdle but she still hadn't come up with an idea to finally eliminate her grandson. At least she needed an idea that was sure to work.Then someone walked pass her to the kitchen in a hurry while greeting her, this drew her out of her thoughts and she waited for the person to pass again. When this happened, she stopped her."You must be Kara, Clara's maid. Is anything the matter? Why are you in so much a hurry?" Nana asked all at once."Nana, I just have to get tea to the Princess. Nothing is the matter." Kara smiled."Oh and may I ask, how is the princess?" "Nana, the Princess is getting better, at least she smiles these days
A bang to the bars and Kara jumped immediately out of fright, the chains catching her mid-air and slamming her right back to the ground."You better have a reason for doing what you did!" The cold voice forced her to look at the direction it was coming from and she recoiled into herself upon seeing Lewis's deadly glare."You won't get anything from me." She hissed.The dungeon was at it used to be. Dark, filled with stench and the maddening aura of death and despair."Do not force me to torture you. It isn't like you don't deserve it." Lewis said lowly to her as he paced slowly in front of the bars."Even if you do so, I will still say the same thing!"He rushed to the bars in full rage and slammed his fists against it again. This time she was ready, she didn't jump out of fear but stared coldly at him."The intent of poisoning is to kill, the reason and the action is together. How can you not see that, My Lord?""You wanted to kill Clara? How could you?! The Princess has been nothing
"Dear Princess, Living a life of servitude isn't what anyone would gladly pick but shall I fight destiny chosen by birth? Maybe I have told you that serving you was my dream, those were lies I wished I could believe. It gets tougher to serve when one desires another, even worse when this another is so close yet so far. Imagine not being able to speak out or stay with the one you dream of merely because of who you are, what is expected of you. I know you fully understand what that is like.Yes, I dreamt that one day I would be free and have my own family. What you don't know is that the one I desire is the one your heart chooses and as much as I helped you to accomplish your heart's wants my own heart broke. I thought helping you and repeating my purpose would stop my want. Still my love grows so much that I fear it will never die as I have presumed.My Princess, I am in love with your Lord. Your Lord Lewis, the very one you love with your whole heart, I love too!..."Lewis eyes widen