A ROYAL TALE OF JEALOUSY - CHAPTER 21&22
★[LIA!]★
❣︎ NEXT DAY~VEAL CHAMBER❣︎
Veal woke up, sweating profusely and breathing heavily. Apparently, he had a bad and scary dream.
“It is just a dream”He groaned and stood up from his bed, he couldn’t believe his eyes when he notice the whole room is brighten up.
“I slept yesterday? How come”He puzzled.
“Your highness”His helping maids greeted, it is clear, that they’ve been standing for a long time waiting for him to wake up.
He nodded with a frown, trying his possible best not to look confused or surprised.
“I have sterilize your pool”One of them announced, Veal ignore her and proceed to his pool.
Veal took one of the red rose, which is floating on the water.
He drop the flower and take off his clothes, before driving himself inside the pool.
After some minutes,He came out of the pool and put on his underwear which is carefully placed on the edge of the river.
After some minutes, he finish dressing.
“Your food…”
“Take the food away, I’m not hungry”He snapped and started walking out of his chamber.
“Your majesty, there is a meeting going on in the hall”Tucker bowed.
“What is the meeting about?”He demanded.
“It about your marriage”He replied respectfully.
“My marriage”He scoffed.
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☀︎︎THE MEETING HALL☀︎︎
The meeting hall in the clan is meant for any family meeting. All king Thea wives and children are in the meeting hall waiting for Veal; The purpose of their meeting, to discuss about Veal marriage.
“Your highness”They chorused when Veal entered.
Veal nodded and Queen Ebbe smirked when she saw his angry face.
“As you all know the purpose of our meeting, king Veal, you have rule as one of the best king, it is time for you to think about your future and have your own family and that is why King Hobby brought her oldest daughter”Queen Zuriel started.
“We heard you still want to study her behavior, I see no reason for you to do that, she is a Princess, you don’t expect her to be a bad wife material”Queen Ebbe smiled.
“Thanks for your concern. But, can you let me decide on my own. I want to study the person I’m going to spend the rest of my life with. I can’t make the same mistake King Thea made”He scoffed and queen Zuriel glared at him secretly.
“I want you to understand that, princess are always trained well and it is more advisable for you to marry a girl from a royal family”Queen Maria smiled.
“I don’t like her”Javier and Lima said at the same time.
“What are you saying?”Gareth snapped.
“I don’t like princess Yara or wh@??ver”Javier roll his eyes.
“Don’t mind him, he is still little”Queen Maria laughed and smack Javier’s head.
“At least I’m older than Veal..no king Veal”He smiled.
“Why don’t you like her? Did she offend you?”Veal asked with a serious face.
“She is not pretty”Javier replied sharply.
“What??”Everyone except Veal exclaimed.
“That is off point, she is a beautiful girl”Gareth fake a smile.
“He is on point, marrying a ugly woman can stain me”Veal roll his eyes.
“But she is not ugly…”
“What do you mean by she is not ugly? The only living thing you can compare to Yara is monkey. Yes, monkey is the only living thing that can compete with her when it comes to beauty”Lima cut Lyla off and Javier started laughing.
“I h@?? her nose”Javier laugh more, Lima join him while Lyla also, started laughing silently.
“You guys should try and cooperate! We are here to advice your brother!”Queen Ebbe snapped and Veal smirked.
The word ”Brother“ sound so funny in Veal’s ear, he can’t believe queen Ebbe would call him her children brother.
‘So this is how it feels to be in a high position? No wonder Gareth is desperate to be the king’Veal chuckled at his own thoughts.
“We are going to vote, majority win”Zuriel ordered.
“If you are in support of Yara in becoming Veal wife signify by raising your hand”She ordered.
Queen Ebbe, Queen Maria, Gareth, Lucas and Lyla raise their hands.
“Unsupportive”Zuriel roll her eyes.
Lima, Ronea, Javier and Isaac raise their hands.
“This is cheating!”Lima screamed.
“I’m also in support of it”Zuriel smiled.
“Mother! You shouldn’t have raise your hand”Javier complained.
“I appreciate your efforts, I will keep on studying her character”He fake a smile.
“How did you want to study her character without sleeping with her?”Gareth smirked.
“What are you saying?”Veal snapped.
“I mean, you should sleep in the same room so, that you will find out the kind of person she is. You cannot study her character without getting close to her”Gareth raise his eyebrows.
“That’s true”Lucas nodded in agreement.
“I should sleep in the same room with a girl that I haven’t paid her bride price? I should sleep in the same room with a girl that I’m not sure of getting married to? I should sleep with a girl that I did not trust? With a girl that I barely know? No, it is not done that way prince Gareth”Veal smirked.
“But…”
“May you live long my king”Queen Zuriel cut Gareth off and he bite his lips in embarrassment.
Veal walk away and Ronea also made to walk away but Queen Zuriel grab her arm.
“Come here”She ordered and started dragging her to somewhere Private.
“Why did you did that?”Queen Zuriel snapped.
“Do what?”She asked rudely.
“Why are you not in support of Veal and Yara’s marriage?”Zuriel snapped.
“I know you are scheming something and I will never participate in your evil doing”She snapped and Zuriel raise her hand, Ronea held her hand before it could land on her cheek.
“Don’t expect me to respect you! You are nothing more than my birth giver and I appreciate you for that”Ronea smiled.
“Ronea are you out of your mind?”Zuriel yelled, Ronea release her hand.
“No mother, you turn me to this. You paid less attention to me and you never raise me well, you never play the role of a mother in my life. I have been lonely and sad but you never notice, you are busy planning on how Gareth will be a king”She yelled and Zuriel made to slap her again but she held her hand again.
“You should know by now that I’m not the Ronea you knew ten years ago. I’m a change person! Get it?”She smirked and walk out on Zuriel.
“Ronea! Come back here I am not done talking to you!!”Zuriel yelled, hoping she could come back but she did not even take another glance at her.
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❁SOMEWHERE IN THE VILLAGE❁
Brielle is just coming from the training center, she smiled when she step into her house. Though, on her way coming, she feel like someone is following her but she thought, the person is going his way.
She was shocked when a hand cover her mouth.
“Hummm”She cried.
“Why did you come back?, I thought you promise to get revenge for your mother and father? Why did you come back home without your sister and how dare you come to this house?”The man in his late fourties yelled and Brielle recognize his voice.
That is her father greedy older brother Gabriel, he have been thr_@tening her to leave because he want to sell the house.
Brielle use her elbow to hit his stomach and he staggered backward.
“Are you not ashamed of yourself? You have never make money on her own! What you depend on is my father’s properties”Brielle snapped.
“How dare you?”He yelled and reach for her but she dodge him.
“I’m going to ki|| you and burry you”He promised and started trying to catch her but she tried all her possible best to dodge him.
“I can see you are a hard type”He groaned, before she could figure out what is happening, he brought out a sharp knife from his pocket.
“Let me see how you are going to dodge this on”He laughed in a hysterical manner.
He roll the knife before throwing it toward her but a hand caught the knife.
Brielle whose head is on her knee slowly raise her head when she did not feel pain anywhere and she heard sound of cracking window.
The face of the person she wasn’t expecting came into view, her eyes grew wide as she stared at him from his head to his shoe.
“Marcus?”She called, just to be sure of what she saw.
“Who are you?”Gabriel shriek in fear.
Marcus replied him by throwing the knife, before he could move an inch he felt a huge pain on his knee, his gaze move to his knee and he could clearly see blood rushing out.
“What have you done?”He yelled .
“I will escort you to the palace”He smirked and grab his clothes roughly.
“He is going to the palace”Brielle gushed and follow him.
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𖣔THE PALACE𖣔
“Your highness”Marcus greeted.
“Why are you holding that old man like that?”Veal snapped.
“He wanted to ki|| this lady”Marcus ignore his angry look and voice.
“What happened?”Veal asked Brielle.
“He is my uncle, he want to ki|| me because he want to sell my late father house”She bowed.
“You want to get rid of her because you plan to sell her father’s house right?”Veal smirked.
“I’m so sorry my king but this young man here also tried to ki|| me! He stab my knee”Gabriel defended.
“That is a self defense”Marcus said sharply.
“Guards!”
“Lock him up”Veal ordered, and the guards carry him out of the palace.
“I heard there is a maid here called Amelia”Brielle asked with a smile.
“What problem do you have with her?”Veal asked.
“You will regret saying this to me”Brielle scoffed, not enough for him to hear.
“Please treat her very well”She smiled and started walking out with Marcus.
Veal groaned when they left, he have been feeling unease since he ate dinner last night. He is feeling angry and he wonder why?. He groan again when he couldn’t figure out the reason for his mood swings.
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“Thank you”Brielle thanked.
“You have to be careful, you are living in a strange world since your parents and sibling is not with you”Marcus advised.
“Why do you I feel like this is the first time you will be saying something exhortating”Brielle laughed.
“Stop…”
“How did you know where I live? How did you know I’m in danger?”Brielle, suddenly cut him off and he gulped down nothing.
“You love asking questions. I will be on my way to the center”He smirked and started walking away. Brielle tried to catch up with him but he started running when he saw her behind him.
“Is he a spy or something”She doubted.
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𖣔AT NIGHT~VEAL CHAMBER𖣔
Veal sighed for the tenth time, he plan to go to Hera chamber to tonight but he is not himself, he feel so angry.
He stare at himself through the mirror, he could see vain pooping on his head, he look so furious.
“Arrrrrrrrgh”He screamed and break the mirror into pieces.
He walk to the broken mirror and started using it to tear his skin.
“Arrgh”He groaned in pain.
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𖣔MAIDS HEADQUARTER𖣔
Elisa lay on her bed with different thoughts on her mind, she did not have any friends to share her thoughts with, since Sadie change her room.
She somehow find her new roommates weird, they don’t talk to her even when she tried to talk to them. They just stare at her and burst into laughter. Their voice is always low whenever they are talking and it no other reason than; They are gossiping about some random stuff.
“Ugh”Amelia rough her hair when she tried to think about something else but couldn’t get her mind off Veal.
“Should I apologize?”She thought, bitting her finger.
“I miss him”She suddenly, mumbled.
“Who are you talking about”One of her roommate unexpectedly, asked.
“No one”Amelia roll her eyes and storm out of the room heading to Veal chamber.
“You are not allowed in”One of the guard at the entrance snapped at Amelia.
“Why? Don’t you know me”She asked.
“Of course I know you are King Veal special maid but Princess Yara said we should not allow any lady into King Veal chamber at night”The guard said and Amelia chuckled.
“Who is princess Yara?”Amelia laughed.
“So, you don’t know your king fiancèe”Yara asked from behind.
“He did not tell me anything about getting a wife”Amelia replied angrily.
“Now you know so, leave”She snapped.
“Why don’t we try and ask him who he would love to be with?”Amelia raise her eyebrows.
“Are you aware you are just a maid in this…”
“I’m not just a maid! I’m king Veal favourite maid”She snapped.
“Your highness, I’m the one Yara”
“Your majesty, I’m the one Amelia”
They both screamed enough for Veal to hear.
“Lia?”Veal called weakly.
“Lia, Lia where are you?”Veal screamed
In excitement, Amelia rush inside his chamber but she was dumbfounded when she saw Veal.
TBC