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Chapter Forty-Three: Mind Games
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The Queen Icily looked at Prince Obi

"Looks like you are ready for war?" The queen asked

"Not really, I just want you to feel what is like to be betrayed by someone close to you, i have you wrapped on my hand now just like you have me wrapped on yours" Prince Obi told her

"I am proud of what you have become; for how far you have gone but..." The Queen looked at him "I can never forgive any siren that hurts my daughter just like you have done" The Queen told him

"I attacked the Princess? what's your evidence?" Prince Obi asked

"This, you must have lost it while ambushing my daughter at the sea with your sea monsters" The Queen said showing him the Whistle that Princess Adunni had found at the sea back then

Prince Obi looked at her blankly "I did no such thing" he said

"When the great queen of the sea says you did it, then you did it" The Queen said with a smirk on his face.

"This is not yet over" Prince Obi told her.

***

8pm back at the city...

Lava finally picked up the call from the
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