"Alice, you've been silent for a while, are you okay?" Alicia asked, looking all concerned. She got no response, so she asked again. "Alice! Are you even listening to me at all?" Alicia asked, shaking her twin sister from her train of thoughts. Alice jerked out of her reverie, with her face looking so pale. "I… I'm just thinking about what Rose explained to us earlier. It could happen to us soon." Alice blurted out. "We'll keep avoiding the princess until we find a way around this, okay?"Alice managed to nod her head and smiled. "Now, let's do something to make you feel better." Alicia said, as she brought out a book with a seal. Alice's eyes widened. It was the book they were told stories about, when they were still kids. "Is this really the Sacred Vampire Diary, Nana always told us about?""Yes! The one we were told only the chosen twins could open under a full moon." Alicia cried. "So you want us to try it? But we aren't the chosen twins. This book is over five hundred ye

"Hmm, you smell wonderful. You smell like flowers, Princess."Princess Sasha smiled as the maid complimented her, after dressing her up for the party. The garden was well lit and buzzing with excitement. It was filled with the melodies, the musicians were orchestrating. Attendees laughed and conversed as waiters wove through the crowd with platters of food.Princess Sasha was escorted into the hall by the two maids she'd grown fond of, Eve and Riana. She looked stunning in an emerald green tiered tulle dress that had been made by the royal couturier, Elaine. "Look who we have here! My Princess!" King Azalea smiled, his chest swelling with so much pride from just watching her walk towards him. Princess Sasha smiled fondly at Seria and her brother who was having a good time making funny faces. "Brother, Mama." She hugged both of them and allowed herself the liberty to bask in the warmth hugging her mum and elder brother brought her. "What a beautiful sight!" The hug dissolved.

"I have been calling on you two to come join me in the kitchen but you were muttering gibberish.''''Oh oh! We were just trying to memorize a poem we learned a couple of days back.''Alice and Alicia plastered on the smile that seemed to convince the head cook all the time. It didn't fail to convince her this time around cause she nodded in approval and beckoned them to the kitchen. "I'm sorry, the twins can't go with you." A masculine voice rang in their ears. They all turned and looked at the direction the voice came from. It was King Azalea! "Long live the King." They all chorused as they paid obeisance to him. "Alice and Alicia, I'm inviting you two to have breakfast with the royals. You have to come immediately." The king announced and left hurriedly. Inviting the twins for breakfast? Was he planning to accept them as his mate now? The head cook thought as she paced up and down. If King Azalea was going to be mated to the twins, then she had limited time left for her reveng

"Aren't you two going to get into trouble?" Bruno asked, looking concerned. "For sneaking out." "Not really. We'll take care of it". "How did you two sneak out without getting noticed?" Bruno was no doubt in awe of the twins. "We both sneaked into a buggy that was to deliver parcels and we got out just fine." Alicia answered companionably. Bruno caught the look of mischief in her eyes and began to laugh. Alicia and Alice followed suit and joined in the laughter that echoed in the forest. "You haven't told me your names yet, girls." Bruno said as he plodded into the river. "Oh, yeah. My name is Alicia Louis and my twin sister is Alice Louis." "You two must be proud of your names." "Of course we are." Alicia said, trying to sound as modest as she could. The taste of the water was refreshing to their tongue. Perhaps, the feeling of it would do great things to their skin. So Alicia and Alice jumped into the river and the movement caused the water to splash on Bruno. "Yo

A look of surprise took hold of King Azalea's facial expression but soon disappeared. "Mother, don't you think that's a bit unnecessary? I feel you're being too hard on them." King Azalea said as he looked from the twins to his mother. Alicia and Alice couldn't believe what the Grand Queen, Seria, just said. Anyway, what she said was true. A leopard never loses its spots. They must have been fools to assume that Queen Seria had changed. "My son, I don't think it is. We are trying to be responsible rulers. So checking if the gifts they were given are still intact isn't unnecessary, but very essential. It only means we are looking out for them and have their best interest at heart. Your mate has to be a well-bred one, isn't it?" Queen Seria asked." "Of course, they have to be." King Azalea nodded affirmatively. He turned to the twins and placed his hand over theirs. ''You two would have to go bring those gifts, okay?'' ''Okay, your lordship.'' Alicia and Alice could not believe tha