TRAINING WITH THE DRAGONS

“Mother, what brings you here?”, Azar decided to ask to end the topic of pregnancy and avoid further fight.

“To take her, training will begin shortly. I would have sent someone to come take her but I was afraid she’d decline”, the empress said with a smile plastered on her face.

“I’m afraid she’d have to skip training for now”, Azar said.

The empress looked at Azar, a little dumbfounded, “I am quite hurt that you dare speak against your mother and the Empress but it’s fine, I understand your sentiments as she is with your child. But your father and I have already discussed this. She is not even worthy to carry your…”

“Mother”, Azar cut her mid-sentence, “Enough with all these. She cannot begin training immediately because she is with child”

Kaliyah was touched seeing the way Azar supported her but then she thought, “It’s not like he cares about me, it's about his child”.

“She is weak and clueless about this empire and about the kind she carries in her womb! She has to be taught!