Filed to story: The Alpha Kings Hated Slave
Her eyes opened, and she leaned up and looked at Baski with shock in her eyes. “You believe me?”
“Of course I do. I never really doubted you. I just needed an explanation, and now I got one. I feel very relieved!”
Tears of gratitude and relief slipped from Danika’s eyes. She lowered her head again and closed her eyes. “Thank you for believing in me.”
Baski closed her hand around the young woman’s thigh in a reassuring squeeze. “We will get through this, Danika. Together. I will do everything I can to—“
“I don’t think there is anything that can be done.” She paused and swallowed. “I c-can’t stop seeing the king’s face in the storeroom. That coldness. He trusted me. He thinks I betrayed him…in so many ways.” More tears left her eyes as she continued hoarsely. “He has never used the collar on me. Not even once. In fact, I think he stopped seeing the collar. He stopped seeing me as a slave.
His slave. And then, today…”
Baski knew she had to tell her. There was no need to hide the truth from anybody. “You know that King Cone roasted the king’s manly parts, right?” She continued when Danika nodded. “It killed off most of his nerve endings and made him unable to be gentle during copulation. Being rough is the only way he can feel anything at all. It…it also made him sterile,” she finished in a soft voice.
A full minute passed before Danika opened her eyes and stared at Baski with eyes filled with confusion.? “That cannot be true. I am carrying his ch-child. I was,” she added, pain in her eyes.
“Yes. But the king thinks he cannot make a woman carry his seed. We all thought that. Me and the five healers all over the twelve kingdoms that diagnosed him.”
So many things were starting to make sense to Danika all at once. “Oh, heavens. That was why you stopped giving me herbs that prevent a baby.”
Baski nodded. “I never intentionally tried to endanger your life by making you get pregnant for your master. I knew of his condition and thought it would be a waste of herbs. It might harm you to take needless herbs. I never knew.”
“That was why you accused me of having another lover that day,” she deducted.
Baski put the water away and began grinding new herbs. “Yes. It was so hard to believe.”
Danika’s eyes closed in defeat and more pain. She lowered her head back to the ground. “No wonder you were most hesitant to go to the king about my condition. His condition… He thinks he can’t father a child. Even without what he saw today, he would have thought I had another lover. He would have executed me anyway.”
“We don’t know for sure, and we will never be able to find out any more. He already knows you’re pregnant.”
“And he doesn’t believe. And he has sentenced me to d-death for my betrayal,” she said, pained.
“He doesn’t know better. We will make him–“
“No. We won’t make him anything, Baski,” Danika interrupted softly. “The truth is, I don’t think I want to be exonerated. I—“
“What are you saying!? Don’t you ever say something like that again!” Baski scolded her.
“Karandy, he…” She swallowed tightly. “I passed out. I’m scared that he really did r-rape me. That he succeeded in putting his hand on me. Just the thought of it fills me with dread. I feel so disgusted, so repulsed with myself, Baski. I don’t think I can live with this.”
“Oh, Danika…”
She began crying, unable to hold it in again any longer. “I don’t think I can survive with this knowledge, Baski. I don’t think I want to survive. My own skin feels like dirt.” She shook her head miserably.
Baski pulled down her underthings and moved to sit beside her head. She lifted her hands, and Danika went willingly. Baski hugged her head to her chest, patting her soothingly. “You can never be dirt, Danika. Don’t ever say something like that again. Tell me. Do you feel like y-your body was…used?”
Danika shook her head slowly. “I don’t feel…invaded, and that’s the scariest part of it. I don’t feel his release on my thighs, only my wetness and blood. I don’t feel pain in my inner body. I don’t know or feel the things he did to my body. The unknown is threatening to shatter my mind. I will go insane if I have to live with the knowledge of wondering about the things he did to me in that state. I…I don’t think I can ever live with that. I don’twant to live with that!” she cried.
“Don’t ever say something like that again. You are not a woman that gives up easily. Donot ever give up on yourself!” Baski shook her. “Don’t ever! Your child is fighting to stay with you, and you should not be the one that wants to give up! Do you hear me!?” Baski took a deep breath. “I just mixed the herbs that might help stop your bleeding. It can’t protect your child, but it might hold your bleeding. It will clean your body and wash out bad blood and the wetness caused by the pills. If Karandy’s release is inside you, it will push them all out. We will know if he really succeeded in taking advantage of you.”
“I’m scared to know,” Danika sniffled.
“But it will give you the closure you need.”
“I’m so tired, Baski,” she admitted tearfully.
“Don’t be. Stay with me. Stay with us. I will do everything within my power to exonerate you, Danika. You just need to fight for yourself. Your child. Fight for the king too. Just fight.”
Tears streamed through Danika’s eyes, her body drained of strength, her lower body hurting. “How exactly do you plan to do that, Baski? There is nothing to be done. Karandy is already dead, and the king thinks I have been cheating on him for months. He thinks I c-carry another man’s child inside of me.”
“I don’t know what to do, Danika. But I’m not giving up on you. Do not give up on yourself too. You have gone through so much, but you are a strong woman. Keep being strong foreveryone you love.” Baski smiled down at her through her own tears, wiping Danika’s own with her fingers.
Danika clung to her, crying softly.
“I brought you food. You have not eaten anything since morning. You will eat. Then I’ll keep looking for Remeta.” Her missing daughter made her heart very heavy. “I really hope she is alright wherever she is. She is my best shot at reaching the king. In helping this situation.”
“Baski?” she whispered tearfully.
“Yes, my dear?”
“Do you think the king will ever heal with this? Do you think my baby will ever heal from this? Do you think I will survive this?”
Baski paused and answered her truthfully. “I have no idea, Danika.” Then she added, “But we have to give your life first. Because once there is life, there is hope.”
Danika closed her eyes to keep the world at bay. She wasn’t sure of life. She wasn’t sure of hope too..
“Can I kiss you?”
Kamara’s eyes widened slightly at the unexpected request from Callan. Her cheeks went a deep shade of red, and she lowered her eyes to the ground.
Callan was beating up his head six ways to Sunday for blurting out a request like that. She’s a lady, and peasants don’t ask ladies for kisses. What was he thinking?
But that was just the problem. He wasn’t. All evening he’d been drawn to those bow-shaped pink lips repeatedly. The princess was a very beautiful woman.
Callan shifted uneasily from one foot to another. “I’m so sorry for asking this of you. It was never intended to insult you and put you in an uncomfortable situ—“
“Shh.” She stepped towards him and placed a finger at his mouth, shaking her head. “I did not see it as an insult.”
“Oh.” He raised his hand to the short black curls of his head and scratched them nervously.
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