"Maude! Maude!!" The soft voice called to the absentminded young lady, who was sitting around the family's huge herbs store. She looked so bored and gloomy, like a person who was waiting in anticipation for someone. Her eyes had lit up with so much excitement, the moment she saw who was calling her by the corner of the building. Tactically, she sneaked out from where she sat to the unawareness of her sister, as she ran to hug Azalea tightly immediately she got to where she stood. Both friends shared an equal and mutual elation, to see one another after a long time. "If you had come some minutes earlier, you would have seen Giselle and Sabina around. Giselle now assists the seamstress around there to make clothes, while Sabina prefers to follow my other sister to buy the herbs instead of staying around here. She is getting prepared for her marriage too," Maude said, trying to curb her urge to cry. She was really going to miss her best friend and cousin."I would really love to
Azalea had entered into the tunnel that led into the palace, in which Ayden closed the lid after she had entered inside. He then made his way back to the part which lead to the palace's premises briskly, before his curfew began. If he had entered inside the tunnel too with Azalea, the palace guards would be sure they had not seen him come in raising a weird concern. So it was better if his maid just went into the palace ahead of him, like she had been really been inside all day. Ayden made his way into the palace walls and as fast he could through the many hallways, so he could quickly get Azalea out of the tunnel before she would freak out in the dark hole. As he was able to pass the hallway that led to the family's dinning room, Zachary had unceremoniously shoved him into the room where every of the royal family was present. It was a compulsory dinner meal for him to attend, since it was the very first one together since his birthday. Why were things really getting complic
"What is wrong with my hair?" Azalea almost stuttered, as she feared that she might tumble over to the back through the window and down the floor, if Ayden keep on moving much closer to her. It was like was never going to let go.Azalea's mind ran to a intense space of thoughts and insinuations of 'What was he talking about? What was wrong with her hair? Had he seen her hair?!' When Azalea couldn't take the mid heat that had started engulfing into her body and breaking down into dripping gust, she immediately pushed him with great force backward which almost made him stumble painfully to the ground. Sensing the havoc that she was about to wreak, she immediately pulled his hand back closer to herself before he hit the floor. The force at which she had used to propel him forward with his chest hitting hers hard, widened Ayden's eyes in fearful shock that he could not control any of his reflexes knowing that they would both fall terribly out of the window. Imminent danger call ha
"Who is that person, master?" Azalea asked Ayden as they made their way back from the room they had just gone into. Ever since they had come out of the room where they had gone to see Lorelei, Ayden's mood had changed into a very sullen one which bothered Azalea. She knew that the woman laying down there in a vegetative state, must be someone so close and dear to him. 'She cannot be his mother, can she?' her mind pondered. If she had heard the rumors around the palace well, his mother had died after she birthed him. "It is my nana from when I was young. She had taken care of me till I had grown up," Ayden replied, his voice filled with so much bitterness and struggled talking. Azalea thought in her mind if she could ask more questions from Ayden, who looked like someone that couldn't talk so firmly about the sick woman whom he talked about with pain. Nevertheless, she would just have to ask him, if she wanted to be sure of what she had seen minutes earlier. "How did she beco
Around the palace that morning were loud chatters and movements of bulky loud objects around the palace. Clamors of a new age for the king with every of his children present, to wish him a good birthday of reigning as king too. Gifts and presents were being sent to the palace from different families around the city, as the servants were working non stop from unwrapping every gift and taking them to a room. Ayden had to go for another compulsory breakfast with the king, as the royal family wished him a happy birthday sincerely from their heart. They also all had their gifts around beside their chairs, waiting for the perfect time to present the king with his gift. Queen Etheldreda had given a beautiful and wonderful speech about her husband and kissed his cheek, as she broke the anticipating hour by presenting to him an armour cloth made of pure gold that was quite a fortune as her own gift. She wanted him to wear it to his own birthday feast later at night. Elliott presented
Ayden was sulking and had refused to say a word, ever since Azalea came back to the room minutes before the party would start. He had taken his time to dress up in front the mirror while checking his out hair, when the door had opened and he didn't even bother to check who it was that entered. Azalea looked around to see if there was anything that she could do, while trying to know if he had not seen her, or was pretending not to see her at all. 'Why was he acting so weirdly?' As she walked around the room, she could hear the sound of beautiful melody of song played from different musical instruments, reverberate across every corners of the palace to tell that the party had fully started. She wondered if she should leave the room before the prince who was keeping mute, or wait for his orders for them to leave to the party together. "Master, I think the party has started. Should I go before you or you will come all by yourself?" She asked him, while walking towards the window i
Up the space where the royal family sat was Eadlin who sat closely to her mother, and Elliott to his father, while Edla had taken the opportunity to leave when she saw the Haystars family. It was almost going to be time for the king and queen, to dine with other important head of each important families. Elliott's eyes watched keenly into the crowd that had flocked in as he sat beside his father, to see when Gianna appears in the crowd of people, and not just watching the relations of everyone that his mother thought he was. As soon as he saw her pass amongst the crowd in her usual and uncommon hair styling, looking around like she was looking around for someone, a cautious smile of happiness crept his stiff lips that had been like that for too long. He couldn't afford to draw his mother's attention to his sudden change of mood, and the smile that had brightened up his face just merely by looking at the crowd. Knowing he could miss her if he went down to the crowd immediately, and s
Coral's day couldn't get anymore worse when she watched from where she sat, her brother and Ayden talk so much like they were never going to end their discussion anymore. Even when Edla had tried to get her attention into a discussion about something, her mind had trailed away often from it. It was when she saw Ayden and Hendrix walk away from the spot that they were standing before, that she tried to make her way out of Edla's company so she could take the advantage of her brother's unknown closeness to Ayden. Just at the moment when she was about to get free from Edla, her mother had sent someone to look for her amongst the crowd and call her to come. "Why now of all times?" She scowled, as she picked up the hem of her beautiful dress with a dress, and followed the servant reluctantly. Eadlin had stuck to her mother all day from welcoming the important guests, to even having a dinner with the important families at the person feast, where none of their children were present to j