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Chapter 41: End of Paradise
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Against the rules: The rise of the Queen Chapter 42: The Healer's Chamber
I sit amidst the ocean of papers, sprawled across me in a diligent bunch of approvals, denials, justice, and many more, and as I rake myself through every bunch reading the content and signing it, I curse my five days of absence in the palace. Five days of absence have gathered over weeks of work for me, and however fast, I try to get rid of the work and climb into Max’s arms. It is barely even possible, for me to get out of the study. I groan frustrated stretching myself to get rid of the knots on my shoulders when the door creeks open, filling the room with the scent of night jasmines. The familiar silhouette, scoots behind me - my eyes not once leaving the twitch on that handsome face. “Oh god, this is all I needed”, I say as Max places his hands on my shoulder, massaging them in a small circular motion. A chuckle escapes his lips, the sound enough music to lull me to sleep. “You could have told me, I could do it every minute of the day”, Max says, his breath fanning across my
Against the rules: The rise of the Queen Chapter 43: The Yellow Potion
“Queen Adria, to what do I owe your visit”, the healer bows to me as I enter the chambers. My mind is still in a daze at the happenings in the hallway, but my body is reluctant to heed any thoughts. “Can you give me some energy potions? My body feels too weak from all the work, and I also feel dizzy since morning.”, I say, taking a seat near the healer. He walks to me, pinching my wrist between his index and thumb, and my eyes wander across the chambers until he finishes the routine check. “Hmm… It looks like your body is weak from the constant work, and it does not get enough nutrients from the food.”, he says circling to one of the cabinets behind me. “I would suggest you take some herbs to make up for the lack of nutrients. ”, he draws out glasses of herbs that I never bothered to learn and puts them in a small jute bag tucked from his waist. “Here. These will help you to feel better.”, I take the bag tucked between his fingers, when my nose again catches the whiff of the same
Against the rules: The rise of the Queen Chapter 44: The Timeline
I shove the scrolls on the rear end of the study back and forth to find the copy of the will written by my father. Like any other important document, it had lost its timeline and was now sitting amidst other equally important but not needed scrolls on the shelf. It has to be somewhere here, I huff shifting almost twenty scrolls down the shelf, and finding the golden embroidered royal blue scroll, that changed my fate in a single day. Today morning, I woke up wrapped securely between the heat of Max's arm and the guilt of my allegations ran through my nerves stabbing me at every instant. And when things start to hurt your love, your resolution to keep them safe increases. So, here I was sitting in the dust showering above my head, sifting through piles of scrolls, ignoring all the piles stacked on my desk, to find the destruction in my house. After about thirty minutes, I see the scroll tucked in the corners of the topmost shelf. The scroll stands almost non-negligible with the outs
Against the rules: The rise of the Queen Chapter 45: The Symptom
I sit along the bedside, with my head between my palms. My mind isn't working, it is just repeating the incidents of the entire day, again and again as if it wanted me to piece things together. But somewhere, something bugged me, something told me to not be rash and drastic. I wait in mom’s chamber, until all the extraneous people leave it, especially the ones that could think beyond gossip, and when I look up after fifteen minutes, I could only see one help standing beside mom. The biggest gossip bitch of the palace. I circle around the bed, walking towards her, “Tell me everything that mom did yesterday. And I dont want you to miss a single detail”. The words fall out of my mouth in anger, as my face contorts in a red tint of rage.I see the terror cross her eyes, and with me mere inches apart I could see the shiver in her body. “My queen. Yesterday, the queen mother… she… got up and followed all her routines normally. But…”, her eyes trail between me and mom, a layer of hesitanc
Against the rules: The rise of the Queen Chapter 46: The Potion Killed Him
“How can you be so sure that it was the yellow potion?” I bellow. It's like my heart wants to believe every word, my mind already placing the blame on Max, but a link holds me back, and I want to hold on to it tighter. “My queen, yesterday when you asked me about the potion, and I had explained the effects, I realized whatever your father - The king of the kingdom faced was nowhere different from the symptoms. Everything was so in-line that I had my doubts. And today when I saw your mother with the same symptoms I was afraid. I talked to her helper, asking her about the medicines she took, and she told me that Max told her, to put the yellow potion in your mother’s food”My guts twisted at every word that left the healer's mouth, my mind knowing all too well the deductions it had made before I fainted. Despite me being reluctant to acknowledge any facts, the hints of the betrayal were sprawled before me. Suddenly a whiff of the yellow potion catches my attention. I see the healer
Against the rules: The rise of the Queen Chapter 47: Numb
A figure tumbles across the hallway trying hard to keep up its balance. It shuffles through all the stairs, climbing each one with a rush leading it to trip almost on every step that it makes. The doors to the chamber are pushed with a loud thud, as the figure crouches holding on to the knees, catching every breath to inform the purpose of its arrival. “What happened? Why do you look like you are about to be killed?”, the healer asks, looking at the disheveled appearance of the figure on the door. “The queen knows the truth”, as soon as the words fell on the ears of the healer, his head snapped up, his eyes threatening to light up at the piece of information, but he needed to be sure before he celebrated anything. “How do you know?”, he asks, containing his happiness, and tucking it behind his cold demeanor. “I heard them…”, the figure takes a deep breath entering the chambers and closing the door behind them. “Yesterday night, I heard the Queen confronting Max about the situation
Against the rules: The rise of the Queen Chapter 48: Illusions of Truth
“So, what do you propose King Martin?”, I say sitting in front of the two most powerful King. King Martin - King of South dynasty, strong, powerful, and most of all well-versed and experienced in ruling a kingdom since he was nineteen.And second King Monogary - King of the west, a plump man almost in his seventies, witty, smart, extremely cunning, and ready to pass his throne to his elder son, Prince Aaron. My eyes trail between the three men sitting before me, their eyes filled with the same disgust, and disgrace to see a woman on the throne. It’s like my body has turned numb to the looks, the rage in me at the disgrace a mere speck of dust that just bothers when it is in your eyes, and anytime you wish you could pluck it, and make sure it no longer distracts or even disturbs you. I sigh, at the silence I receive at my question, the meeting turning into nothing but silent scrutiny based on gender and prejudices. “King Monogary”, I address him looking him in the eye, and he chuck
Against the rules: The rise of the Queen Chapter 49: Welcome, to your Nightmare.
“What?”, the word roars through my mouth as I look at mom for the incredulous statement she had made seconds before. “I am not doing anything like that.” “Princess Adria, do not forget I am your mom and you will do as I wish”, she bellows standing before me. Her face morphed into pure rage, as her eyes spit the venom in them. “It’s Queen Adria mom, do not forget it I am the Queen '', I hissed at the words that left my mouth. I don't want to disgrace her, but her decisions do not give me a chance to think rationally. She chuckles at my words as she walks toward me, “No you are not the queen, yet.”, she stands before me, her stature that of the Queen she shows herself to the world outside. “You will become the queen when you are a wife to some King. The East does not belong to you Adria, you are the daughter of the Kingdom - the princess. You were a responsibility that I and Dad had to look after until you marry someone, and become their Queen.” she says, the words adorned with
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