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Sally nodded her encouragement.
The queen lowered her head in pain for a few seconds. Then she rose and allowed the guards to lead her out.
Vetta could not believe what she was hearing.
At the sound of chaos and cheers behind the walls she was enclosed in, she’d called a guard and demanded to know what is going on.
“The king freed the former princess from slavery,” the guard had enunciated.
About damn time. Maybe now she’ll know herself for the green snake from a green monster she is, Vetta thought satisfyingly.
“She was crowned the new queen of Mombana. The privileged people of the kingdom and the kings of so many kingdoms witnessed her crowning, and now her coronation ceremony is going-“
“What!?” Vetta cried as she rose from the ground. Surely, her ears were deceiving her.
But the guard repeated everything he said before he inclined his head and walked away from the dungeon.
Vetta wanted to keep disbelieving this development. Surely, he didn’t crown her queen!
She’d said to free hernot to crown herqueen
! Danika is now in the highest status any woman would ever be in the kingdom. Now she will have tobow to Danika at sight?
Over her dead body!
Why did the king do this!? Angry tears filled Vetta’s eyes.
Why would he free her!? She should have known that he would never do anything so predictable, of course, he wouldn’t! But to crown her queen!?
She began crying. Angry, raging and bitter tears.
Queen Danika rose the next morning in an unfamiliar bed, but a very familiar room.
Memories of the day before filled her head. She was in her bedroom again-her childhood bedroom in Mombana.
Before she’d arrived, the new guards and the new maids had put everything in order for her. When Mombana was merged with Salem, most of the new maids and guards had been working at the palace. Now that it was separated again as two different kingdoms, King Lucien had hand-picked the Mombana guards and maids according to the head guard, Rogan.
They’d wanted to move Danika’s things to the king’s chambers, which is her father’s former bedroom, but she’d declined. Instead, she asked them for the favor to clean out the princess’s quarters that was her old bedroom, and they’d obliged. She wanted familiar ground.
As she rose from the bed to start the day, Danika felt weak and tired. She’d cried herself to sleep the night before. It was even a miracle that she was able to sleep at all because thoughts of King Lucien laid with her on the bed.
A kick to her belly made her wince. She sat up and stared around at the bedroom she never forgot. It felt like ages since she was last here-like it was another world all the same-but being here brought in memories of her life as a princess.
For the first time since she was thrown from a dreamland to a nightmare land, a smile ghosted her swollen face as she stared at routines she and Sally made, which she pasted on the wall. That was two years ago.
The sound of door opening pulled her eyes from the piece of parchment hanging in the wall. Sally entered the bedroom looking so drawn and tired too.
“How are you, my princ- my queen?” she corrected herself softly, still unable to come to terms that her princess was finally a queen.
Queen Danika pushed aside all her pains and problems and allowed herself to look at her former personal maid. Really look at her. Sally looked…older. She was still her beautiful, young and sweet Sally, but she had new faint lines on her face that could have only developed by worry and sadness.
“No.” Danika shook her head and made space for Sally to sit beside her. “How are you, Sally? By the gods, I have been so selfish that I didn’t stop to think of how you have been doing these past few months. I missed you so much, and yet I wasn’t able to come and visit because the king made sure I wouldn’t leave the palace.” Her hand caressed her swollen belly in emphasis. “I’m so sorry, Sally.”
“No. I should be the one apologizing to you, my queen, for breaking my promise,” Sally whispered guiltily. “I left your side after I got married. I promised that I would settle into marital life and come back to your side, but I failed to do that. It has been five months.”
“No!” Queen Danika shook her head adamantly. “I know you’d never leave my side. When you didn’t return, I knew it’sbecause you hadn’t been quite settled.” She paused. “You look so…unlike Sally. Tell me what the matter is. Please.”
Sally twisted her fingers in front of her, and tears blinded her eyes. She had always been able to tell her princess everything. Maybe this one would hurt less if she spoke it out to her princess. “I am a barren woman, my princess! I don’t think I can ever give my husband a child!” She burst out crying.
Her tears woke Queen Danika’s protective feelings and love for her Sally, and she reached for her, pulling her into her arms. She hugged her in consolation as Sally bawled her eyes out. Several minutes later, when Sally’s emotions subsided, Queen Danika pulled away slightly and looked her in the eyes.
“You can never be a barren woman, Sally…never! Do not say any word like that ever again!” Danika chided the younger woman fiercely.
“It’s been five months!” Sally cried.
“My thoughts exactly. Five months, Sally! Not even five years! You arenot a barren woman, and youwill birth your own child.”
“I am scared. You know what the kings did to me…”
Queen Danika’s heart squeezed. Of course, she remembered what the kings did to Sally-how could she ever forget? And it was all because of her. Guilt lashed Danika, but she forced herself to push it behind her. Instead, she held Sally’s hand to hers and squeezed reassuringly. “Have a little faith, my dear Sally. Did you forget what happened to King Lucien? You know his own story. He had it worse, and yet look at me. I’m carrying his child. It is a miracle that was so unexpected. Have a little faith, my dear Sally,” she repeated.
Suddenly, Sally was feeling much better. She wiped her eyes. “You’re right; you’re right. I need to have a little faith. If you can carry the king’s child, I can carry my own child, right?”
Queen Danika reassured her with a smile. “Right.”
Sally hugged her tightly. “Thank you so much, my princ- my queen.”
“Everything will be alright, Sally. Everything will be alright,” she crooned softly.
“I want you to take your own words now too, my queen. Everything will be alright. Everything,” Sally whispered on her shoulder, patting her back too. Queen Danika paused, her words coming back to hunt her. “Indeed everything will be alright, my queen, you are not wrong. Being crowned queen is not the end of the world but the beginning of a very beautiful world. Now you have so much strength and power. Now you can fight for yourself-for what you want,” Sally continued. “You needn’t bite your bite your tongue, and you needn’t pull your punches. As a queen, you can fight for what you really, really want.”
For the first time since the past evening, Queen Danika felt better. Sally was right. Being a queen wasn’t the end of the world but the beginning of a better world. Everything would be alright. It had to be.
“Thank you, Sally,” Danika said wholeheartedly.
Just then, the door opened and Baski entered the bedroom. Danika’s face lit up as she saw the older woman she had come to love and rely on for the past fourteen months.
“Baski!” she gasped as she pulled away from Sally and rose to her feet. Baski was already hurrying towards her. They met halfway and were instantly wrapped in a hug.
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