Her features clouded with confusion hearing Alpha Malik, she wondered the kind of person Alpha Malik was.
Did he learn how to make a woman cry and how to make them feel happy again?
She shook her head, thinking she might have heard him wrongly.
“Don’t you have anything you want me to do for you?” Alpha Malik uttered, bringing her out from the doubting realm and jumping to the physical realm.
“Ehmm. Ehmmmm” She stammered, after the truth glaring at her face, indeed that the all mighty powerful Alpha Malik wanted to fulfill a promise to her.
There was prolonged silence after asking for the second time, and the silence was getting on the king’s nerves.
“If you don’t have any request, you can find your way out,” He said with gritted teeth.
Aurora’s eyes widened knowing she had prolonged her response, unaware to her that she had wasted the king’s previous time, the excitement and what she was going to ask the king filled her thoughts, forgetting the king was demanding her request.
“I’m sorry, my kin… Your highness” She bowed her head as she rubbed her hand nervously, her heart racing heavily out of her chest.
Feeling nervous and anxious about what the king will say about her permission, she shut her eyes, encouraging herself that he asked her… She didn’t beg, threaten, or negotiate with him for this.
“My king, I would love it if you can watch the moon with me tonight in the garden,” Aurora asked calmly, facing the ground, not wanting to read the rejection expression on his face.
She knew she had asked the most difficult wish from the king, who would want to go out with his father’s murderer… No one will.
“Fine, see you by 7 pm, at the bamboo palm inside the garden”
It is a smallish, shrubby evergreen palm with bamboo-like stems. This shade-loving species has dark green, fan-shaped leaves and is effortless to grow. It can withstand temperatures down to 18 degrees Fahrenheit (-7. 78 °C). It grows well as an indoor palm, a foundation plant, or in mixed shrub borders in shady locations.
The king always has his quiet time under the tree whenever there is heat, although he loved going there with Aurora before his father’s death … After his father’s death, he stopped going there, since it held beautiful memories he had with Aurora.
“Thank you, my king,” Aurora said happily, her cheeks blushing and tainting, she couldn’t hide the excitement tingling in her stomach.
Excitedly, she jumped out of Alpha Malik… Even Malik couldn’t hide the feeling of happiness that brewed in him, seeing Aurora smiling.
A chuckle brushed her cheek, then he walked over to his table, his eyes checking out all the scrolls arranged on top of the table, he picked one after the other, assessing the trading of the communities.
Checking if there was any loophole of fraud in the account books, he wasn’t supposed to be doing this, but he wanted to make sure there was no loophole since he had been sensing diminishing in the community trading these few days.
Still, there is a lingering of Aurora in his mind. He continued working, likewise, he was missing the masked girl, his heart yearning to see her again, his heart seemed to flutter whenever he thought about her.
He wondered what the masked girl had done to him, he would have thought he used charm against him if he had eaten her food.
Likewise, he’s not the type that abhors feelings for women except Aurora, still, the feelings ended up becoming hatred after his father’s death.
He rubbed his hands at his hair when his heart thumped three beats suddenly as the image of when he nearly kissed Aurora back then popped out of his head.
He wondered if something was wrong with him for thinking of two different women at the same time.
Knowing he was losing focus on what he was doing gradually, he dropped the remaining scroll, not wanting to miss the important clue on the account, while he picked up a cup filled with water and gulped once. The concentration on his face was lost.
After dropping the feather ink used for the alterations, he strode toward the window
stared down the windows, her gaze resting on Aurora, she clamped her hands in her front walking to the maid’s quarter.
Alpha Malik wondered why he was thinking of two women, but he convinced himself he hated Aurora, while he might have a mere attraction for the masked.
The shuttling of the footsteps coming outside his door made him jerk his head and the door opened.
“My lord…” Morena bowed and greeted the king as she stepped inside the chamber.
“Welcome Morena” Alpha Malik left the window side immediately and moved close to where Morena stood.
“You can have your seat,” Malik said while stretching his hands towards a desk for her to sit on.
“I’m okay like this, my king” She replied to the king with a bow.
“I’m not asking your Morena, it’s an order from your king” Alpha Malik uttered, he knows the woman respected him a lot even though he had taken her as his family, but it was painful to Malik because she isn’t seeing herself exactly as his family.
Just as Morena was bending down to sit, her eyes narrowed at the account books on the desk, she wondered if the king was the one treating all these books.
Instantly, her brows knitted with concern.
“My lord, are you the one that attended to all this scroll” Morena was conscious of her words.
“Yes Morena, I have to… I suspect some discrepancy in the community business, and you know what it means, before I can decide I want to be certain there’s an issue, I don’t want to raise an alarm unfairly” Alpha Malik explained to her, in the process, he growled.
“Arrg” He whimpered in pain, he felt a sudden pain in his hands and as he wanted to stretch it, the pain intensified, there was no circulation of blood in his hand but after some seconds the pain shrank.
“I will come and give you medicine to use on the hands, you must have wielded it tirelessly without resting” Morena mumbled, and she bit her lower lips at the end, hoping she hadn’t said something disrespectful.
The King understood the look on her face, and he let out a smile, but in a twinkle of an eye, it returned to his usual cold facial look.
“Morena you shouldn’t be afraid of communicating with me even if others do,” He stated firmly.
“I’m sorry, my lord,” Morena said.
“Morena I called you here because I want you to help me package a gift for a woman, I will need the gift this evening” He uttered, very short and direct.
“Okay My lord” Morena stood up and bowed her head, knowing the king had finished with his requests.
“Morena, how about your dreading nightmare, have you been able to cure it,” Alpha Malik said before she could move an inch.
“No your highness, but I hope soon,” Morena said even though she knew it might be able to cure the nightmare.
“There any way I can help, don’t hesitate to call me,” He said.
“Okay My lord,” She said, turning and walking towards the exit door.
“Thank you, Morena” Alpha Malik said as Morena reached the exit door. He had always appreciated her for staying with him all these years.
Her eyes widened, feeling happy that the king was changing back from his cold way.
But still, there was a doubt in her mind as she continued on her track back to her chamber, she wondered if the King can finally let go of those dark scars in his mind, the wrongful death of his mother, his father being killed by his most trusted alibi.
She wondered if he can trust anyone again in this lifetime, except a miracle happened.
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Jericho slammed his hand on the desk and clenched his fist in fury, his eyes seeming furious.
“Why I’m just hearing it now that my brother asked for the account book for auditing, and you gave him without my permission?” Jericho uttered, he dragged the collar of the man shivering in his presence and his fist landed on his cheeks and he fell to the ground in a thud.
“We are sorry your highness” The remaining workers chorused, drawing backward, not wanting Jericho to drag any of them.
“Come here” He started stretching his hand towards another wanting to punish another.
“We are sorry” They chorused repeatedly as they trembled, hoping for a savior to appear.