Aurora hesitated in answering the king's question, she wanted to avoid telling him, she understood the French language. Which maid would possibly know how to read the French language? It might make the king get more suspicious of her. What if the king asked me where I learned it? The thought filled her mind until Malik snapped her out of her thoughts. “Why are you keeping quiet?” The king asked, this was the first time she had seen a different expression on Malik's face, he looked curious. “No…. Yes,” she stammered. “Which one is No?, which is Yes?” Malik said, she looked at her face and looked away. His stare did the magic, Aurora couldn't resist looking at his faraway handsome look. It has been a long since she was able to look closely into his eyes as Aurora. She didn't know the reason, but presently, she was not afraid of him, she felt the king wouldn't hurt her for staring at him. “Are you with me?” Malik said, snapping her out of her daydreaming, he saw her lustful gaze at

Different things were entirely translated on the scroll, and the king's eyes devoured each line on both scrolls, aiming to sight any similar sentences, but still, his eyes didn't catch a related word. The documents were different from one another. Malik clenched his fist in and out in anger, his eyes darkened, not knowing the correct one among the two, “Who fool me among the two?” He thought. Detecting the right one was his priority, he wanted to start trading with the French, and he needed to know the rules, the risk, and the profits involved with them. The French had sent the proposal to him a long time ago, but he refused to acknowledge it, his minister tried to persuade him to do business with them, but he rejected it, but after his conversation with the masked girl, he became restless, yearning to find ways to make his community more prosperous, especially the poor and the needy. He thought of giving large town access to trade in his town, this will give his people access to make

After announcing their presence, the queen's voice came out, asking the man to come in. Daphne pushed the door open, and the man called Sir Roger walked in.“My queen” Sir Roger greeted her, he lowered his head.The queen came out from the inner chamber, with a smirk on her face, he found a place to land her buttocks until she acknowledged the man's presence.“Did the king believe in your statement?” The first thing that came out of her mouth was, neglecting to greet him.“Yes my queen, he believed everything I said to him, moreover the rumors, helped a lot,” He said.“Hmmm, Good then” The queen muttered with a grinning expression.“But my queen, I'm curious about something,” He asked.“What is it?”“I don't seem to understand why you asked me to cover up for the king's concubine, you said you wanted her to suffer, yet I covered up for her,” He asked. He knitted his brows, confused, waiting for the answers.A grin brushed her lips, she looked at the man with a smile, she waved to him,

The King's women were all inside the woman's hall jabbering, and the atmosphere was gladdened; it had been a long that they had this kind of environment, anything they held this gathering, it was always filled with conflict, Jealous, covetousness, and they end fighting. “It's good to have a good leader as the mother of the country, I can't remember when we had this kind of happy join together without anyone telling us she is more than us” One of the concubines called Kira said, her eyes fixed on Xena as she let out the word. She directed the word to Xena and all the concubines knew the word was directed to her, every one of them knows how pompously she behaved among them. Picking up the cup, Nneka sipped the tea in her front and dropped the cup, her lips brushed with a smile, hearing how Kira's tongue lashed Xena. She had always known that bringing Xena to the king's women's gathering was the best place to torture her, she had gathered the meeting because of her. She had plans und

Xena recrudesced at the king's chamber for the fifth time. As usual, she met a guard at the entrance, but this time around she met Evans with the other guard that had been preventing her from going into the king's chamber. “Good evening, your High….” “Where have you been to, that you keep this thing here?, telling me gibberish since” Xena cuts in angrily before Evans could finish with his greetings. Still, she didn't allow Evans to reply. Rather, she continued on her track, wanting to push her way into the king's chamber, but a long barricade settled before she could place her hand on the door. “How dare you block my way again?” Xena raised her hand and struck the other guard's cheeks. She winced in pain as her hand landed on the guard's face, she felt like she hit an iron. She raised her head and peeked at the guard, wondering if his body was made of iron, she hissed and blew air on her palm, softening the hit ensuing from her hand palms. “Are you made of iron?” She snapped at t