Evans pleaded with the king to allow him to carry Aurora on the horse. He informed the king that Aurora’s leg must be hurting her.
Though Evans regretted ever saying it, because the king gave him a cold gaze, he had informed him because of his emotions towards her.
The king rejected the request saying Evans was to protect the king and his woman, not a murderer.
“I’m sorry my king,” Evans pleaded immediately.
After a brief silence, they continued on the journey back to the palace, on the way the king saw how Aurora limped, and the quilt struck his chest.
Though Aurora is the woman he hated the most, he didn’t like the way she was limping.
“Xena, since you are a good horse rider, I want Aurora to ride with you, I don’t want her to ride with me on the same horse” The king muttered to Xena. He didn’t want Evans and her on the same horse, and he can’t stay on the same horse with a woman he despised so much, the only option Left is to ask Xena to ride with her, and she won’t accept, except he mentions sitting with her on his horse.
The way Aurora limped, changed the king’s mind, and he allowed Aurora to climb the horse with his woman.
Xena eyes seemingly with anger and rage, she has no option than to allow Aurora ride with her, she can’t possibly allow her to ride with the king, though it seems to her that the king still has remnants of feelings for Aurora.
Her heart ached painfully, she hated the fact that she has two women she has to contend with before the king can be her finally.
‘I must find every possible way to hinder the king from sleeping with the queen, and in the process I will get pregnant. Implicating them is not enough to have my king to myself’. Xena thought as she saddled the horse.
“Don’t you dare find your way into the king’s heart, he’s mine alone,” Xena whispered to Aurora’s ears, at Aurora’s back.
Alpha Malik eyes glued to Aurora, all through the journey, back to the palace, he hates the fact that he still cares for her well being.
“Is it that I care?, or I got jealous” He asked himself a question.
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Entering the palace, the king stepped down from the horse, and dropped with the servants taking care of the horses.
“Call Jaguars into my throne room, I want to see him,” he said to Evans as he walked back into the palace, while Evans found his way to Jaguar chamber.
Aurora was about to turn to the maid quarter, suddenly Xena grabbed hold of her hair and yanked her hair painfully.
She was drawn backwards to face her, because Aurora backed her before.
“What did you think you were doing, you murderer?” Xena snarled at her.
Even before Aurora climbed Xena horse, she had expected her to treat her brutally on the horse. She knew she released the horse rope intentionally, just to hurt her. She wondered how much hatred she has towards her, that made her not mind hurting herself just to hurt her.
She tried to swallow the pain Xena ‘s hand was inflicting on her hair. She wished to push her away but she wanted to see how far she would go today. She angered Aurora today by trying to kill her.
“Your Highness, I don’t understand you,” Aurora said humbly.
“Don’t you dare play wise with me, you must have been seducing the king, manipulating him at the back just to get back into his life. You must be shameless, you dare hurt the king’s father, still you want to have him” Xena said hissing.
“Your Highness, the king hates me so much and you know this, did you think the king would want to lay with his father’s killer, except the king’s heart is no more his,” Aurora said, her tone full of satire.
“What?”
Xena yelled, with a burning gaze at Aurora.
‘Did she just be insulted? me, is she bragging that she held the king’s heart. Never I can’t allow that to happen,’ she mumbled
“Your Highness, I don’t dare to covet the king’s heart, except he releases his heart and gives it to me,” Aurora said, then she grabbed Xena’s hand and yanked it away from her hair.
Then she bowed her head, and was about to go, suddenly Xena raised her hand to slap her but she held the hand before it reached her cheeks and dropped her hand harshly.
Xena gasped, it surprised her, she stood at that spot looking at her like a dumb head.
Aurora rearranged her scattered hair, and she looked at angry Xena, who was about to burst.
“Even slave deserve some respect concubine Xena, I will advice you to focus your strength, and use it to protect the king from his brother, if truely you love him, just as you claimed, rather than opening your legs to his brother and claiming he raped you,” it slipped out of her mouth out of angers, she is no longer interested in taking insult from her anymore.
She is a princess, even if she has been reduced to a murderer, yet she won’t allow the king’s concubine to step on her again.
She is the proud princess of the Uruk community, she has killed giant, strong warriors, mighty kings just for her community to have peace, she didn’t want her people to go to war, and lose their lives, this has made her the only fiercest warrior in her community.
She has never been apprehended by her community enemy, if not for love, she wouldn’t have lost this present one.
She blamed it on love, but she didn’t regret falling in love with the king, loving Malik gave her sweet memory apart from the agonizing memory she has always had.
Every night, she remembered the faces of everyone she had killed for her community, and it always gave her sleepless nights.
She has been able to sleep peacefully since she met king Malik, which is one of the reasons she fell in love with him.
Xena remained on the spot, watching how Aurora walked away. She looked shocked and terrified at the same time.
“How did she know?” She asked herself.
She can’t allow this to reach the king’s ears, she must do something about it. But how would she go about it?
Jericho will be the best person to help her, she can’t inform her friend since it is embarrassing to her.
“Jericho started this mess, so he must finish it” she mumbled under her breath, as she squirmed.
She looked around to see if anyone heard what Aurora had just said.
To Be Continued.
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