Chapter 14: Chapter 14

Arius

I threw Faye into my room as I shut the door behind me and leaned my face on it, trying to calm myself down. Faye just attacked my wife. I was restraining myself from hitting her. I had to keep reminding myself that I do not hit women.

“My King…” Faye started, her voice teary but I was already passed the stage of her tears moving me.

“Tell me Faye, what were you thinking when you attacked Gwenn, she is a fighter and you are not. She was well within her right to kill you and if you had hurt her, I was well within my rights to have you banished or killed. What was going on in your mind?” I roared at her as she shrank back from me.

“I am so sorry my king. It was never my intention to try and attack her but with her tone and the way she talked, I just lost control of my mind. She should not get to have you. She should not be with you my King. She is not worthy of being called yours.” Faye sobbed.

“But she is and your actions were unwarranted.” I said then froze as I came to realized something very clear.

I gave Faye this power.

The power to talk back at Gwenn, to treat Gwenn like she was inferior, all I was thinking about was wetting my cock and I was empowering the wrong woman, the one which I was not going to spend my life with. The one who I should have been steady reminding of her place in my life. She was not an equal to Gwenn, she was not even my concubine. She was just a dirty little secret of mine and she held her ground against Gwenn like she had the right to.

No! I had to end this thing here. I cannot continue to give Gwenn ammunition to hate me. Gwenn is going to be the mother of my children, I want my children to respect me and they will not do that if their mother do not do it.

“My king?” Faye said and I looked at her only to see that she was naked.

Was she hoping to seduce me out of my anger for attacking Gwenn? Have I let her do this before? Was I that weak for some affection from the female sex?

God, just how low have I sunk?

“Put on your clothes and get out of my room.” I growled at Faye who giggled like I said the funniest thing ever.

“My king.” She pouted. “Isn’t there anything you would like to do to me before sending me on my way? I mean I know that I made you angry but let me make it up to you.” She said spreading her legs and giving me a clear visual of the middle.

“If within the next ten seconds you are not in your clothes, I will have you whipped after I drag you to that hall naked.” I tell her, staring directly to her eyes so that she will see that I meant my words, I didn’t let my gaze drift down even though her hand moved in that direction. When she didn’t make a move. I yelled. “Nine!”

Within a flash she had started to put on her clothes but I knew she could do it a lot faster so I said. “Eight!”

“I made a silly mistake, just one, you don’t have to be so strict on me.” She cried.

“You called attacking the queen silly?” I asked her and when she tried to talk, I shook my head at her. “Don’t even bother trying to defend yourself. You don’t see anything wrong with what you did. I honestly don’t know what I saw in you. What I do know is that I am done. Keep your doors closed at night or in fact, you can keep them open for some other male but I am not going to be in your room ever again. You are banned from the royal quarters, especially this passageway because the only occupants here are me and my queen, I am sure that she wouldn’t want to see you just like I don’t too so you are not needed here ever again.”

“You are ending things between us?” She asked with her eyes wide in shock.

“Yes I am.” I replied her. “I think it is long overdue, besides my queen is back. I don’t need any other woman in my life. Get out.” I pointed out the door.

“Please my king.” Faye pleaded, going on her knees with her hands clasped together.

“Get out of my room and out of my life.” I gritted out and sniffing, she stood up and walked to the door but I kept my gaze averted until I heard the door close. It was only then I breathed in relief.

I have gotten rid of her, all that remains is to have Gwenn back on my side and if possible wipe away everything I did to her since the moment when she came and tried to warn me about Themis vision. Strange things were going on in the kingdom and I needed someone on my side because Gwenn might be right.

I had an enemy among my siblings and it looked like it was one of my brothers.

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Faye Pov

I lost my position all because of the foreigner, I closed the door to the king’s room and rested my back on it only for my legs to grow weak and for me to slide down it with tears still on my face, I could barely feel them. I was still in shock over what I had just lost.

He was supposed to be mine.

I had loved him for a very long time, he could have loved me too if she was not in the picture, He was supposed to be mine and no one else. I had him within my grasp, I was supposed to be made an official concubine, just like his mother relationship with his father. It didn’t matter if Yama got married to a different woman, everybody knew that his heart belonged to the king’s mother. Politics were the only thing that prevented them from being together and for the safety of the king’s mother, Yama had to get another concubine so that people would not attack the king’s mother. It still didn’t work because the king’s mother died in a preemptive attack.

I clasp my hand over my mouth as a large sob ripped over me, this should not be so.

“If you want the king to be yours, follow me.” A female voice said in the darkness. The voice was familiar like one which I hear all the time but I couldn’t place without seeing her face. She stood in the shadows.

“Well, I haven’t gotten all day?” She snapped. That was a princess there but I just don’t know which of the princesses.

“I am sorry Your Highness.” I apologized quietly as I scrambled to my feet and followed her out of the hallway, she led me through various hallways and instead of the direction of the princesses quarters, she led me towards the princes own and although I was confused, I didn’t say anything. Only watched her as she moved to open one of the doors there. I was not aware of which prince had which room because they were not my assignment. I was an attendant of the king and I am only concerned with the princes when the king sends a message to one of them and I have to be a carrier of the message.

We stepped through the door only for me to see Prince Kastav whose mother was the queen and the second son of Yama. A son the mother tried to force out prematurely just so he could be the king. He did come out the same day with my king but he came out in the evening and Yama refused to admit that day was his birthday. He fixed Kastav birthday in the day which he should have given birth which was a month later.

There are rumors about Kastav that are too malicious to be anything but rumors or so I believed until now. Kastav was wearing a cold look that seemed to be like his usual expression, like those other times where I caught him in the middle of a laugh with his brother.

The problem was that Kastav made those seem like a mask and this was the true him and that sent a shiver down my spine.

“Hello Faye, there is something which I want you to do for me.”