Married to the arrogant king

“My decision is that I will get married to princess Nadia of Nedal, but only after queen Zara’s recovery,” Carl announced, and everyone gasped.

Like before some were pleased with his decision, while others were not.

The messenger smiled, seeing that Carl has agreed to the proposal. “Your grace, you made the right decision, but you have to put your royal seal on this, as a guarantee that you won’t go back on your word,” he said, showing Carl a scroll, on which an agreement was written.

“Jerald, get my royal seal,” Carl ordered, glaring at the messenger. Even a royal seal doesn’t guarantee that he would marry their princess.

…

The messenger left immediately after, Carl had stamped the agreement, and he also gave the purple lotus. He was filled with so much happiness that finally, they were going to be aligned with such a great nation like Everton…

Meanwhile, the royal physician gave Zara and Myla the antidote. “Your majesty, you’ll have to wait a day, for queen Zara and the servant to recover.” The physician told Carl, giving him a small smile.

“Alright. I don’t mind waiting for another day, knowing that Zara will be alright,” Carl replied, returning the smile. Although Carl was happy, he was still very much disturbed about his decision to marry the princess of Nedal.

“Your majesty, are you going to tell the queen, about your agreement to marry princess Nadia?”

Carl sighed, before answering. “It’s best I tell her before she finds out from someone else. But I’ll have to wait until she’s better.”

Carl was scared of how Zara would react if he told her that he was going to marry someone else, even though it was to save her.

…

The news that queen Zara has been given the antidote spread like wide fire. As the people of Everton rejoiced.

“Our queen escaped death and came back to us. Hail queen Zara,” they cheered.

They didn’t know what Carl had done in exchange for the purple lotus, and they didn’t care. The only thing they care about was that Zara was going to be okay.

On the other hand, Prince Aiden, Eric, and Ryn sat in their chamber, having a discussion.

They look so serious and engrossed that one would wonder what kids like them could be discussing.

“Aiden, what do we do now? We didn’t finish with that bad woman Gwen, and now, there is going to be another one,” Eric rasped.

Earlier, they hid behind Carl’s throne, listening to everything that was going on.

Although Eric had wanted to come out of his hiding place and pull out the messenger’s eyes, Aiden and Ryn had calmed him down.

“Eric, don’t say that, we don’t know if she’s a bad person until she comes to Everton,” Aiden reasoned.

“Yes Eric, she might not be bad as you think, but if she is, we would teach her a lesson,” Ryn added.

“But I don’t want Aunt Zara’s husband to be taken away from her,” Eric pouted.

“Eric, we also don’t want that, but as of now, we need to continue keeping an eye on lady Gwen, because lately she’s been acting strange,” Aiden muttered.

“Do you think she’s the one who poisoned aunt Zara?” Ryn asked.

Shhhh, Aiden hissed, covering her mouth. “The walls have ears Ryn, we can’t let anyone hear our conversation and we also can’t say that she poisoned aunt Zara, just because she gave the servant a cup of concoction. You know sometimes, what you see is not always true. so until we have proof, we can’t accuse her of something like that.”Nôvel(D)rama.Org's content.

Eric and Ryn nodded their head.

On the day of Zara’s baby banquet, they had sneaked into the kitchen to steal some snacks, and they saw Gwen giving the servant girl a drink. They also overheard her saying that the servant girl shouldn’t tell Zara it was from her.

But that was all they heard. After that, they ran out of the kitchen to avoid getting caught, and later on, when they heard Zara was poisoned, and the same servant girl they saw with Gwen had gotten arrested, they suspected her.

“So what should we do now?” Ryn asked. Both Aiden and Eric had filled her up on information concerning Gwen and coupled with the fact that she didn’t like her from the start, it was easy to convince Ryn to work with them, now that they were friends.

“We just need to keep pretending to side with aunt Gwen until we find out if she was responsible or not,” Aiden told them, and they nodded.

“And we can also kill two birds with one stone,” Eric added, smiling mischievously.

“What do you mean? Both Aiden and Ryn asked at the same time.

“You know Lady Gwen, likes your arrogant brother, so if she finds out that he’s going to marry someone else, she wouldn’t like it. So I think, we should use lady Gwen, to get rid of the Nedal princess,” Eric explained, and this time, they all smiled mischievously.

In Gwen’s chamber

Gwen sat in her chambers, sipping her wine when a knock sounded on her door.

“Come in,” she said, tilting her gaze to the door.

The trio(Aiden, Eric, and Ryn) walked into the room, majestically, their gaze narrowing slightly to take a glance around.

“What do you want?” Gwen asked, seeing that it was them.

“We have important information to give you,” Aiden replied, making Gwen tilt her gaze to meet theirs.

“what could be important? Did Zara finally die? she thought, an evil glint flashing in her eyes. Lately, she rarely left her chamber, so she didn’t know what was going on.

“Tell me,” she said, giving them a curious look.

“You know my brother is looking for the purple lotus to cure aunt Zara, right?” Aiden inquired.

“I know. did he find it?” Gwen asked getting impatient. She prayed that Carl wouldn’t find it, and Zara would die.

“Did he?” She asked again.

“Yes he did,” Eric answered instead, going to stand in front of Gwen, a small smirk playing at the corner of his lips.

“After sending a message to four nations,(Nival, Azrael, Greenville, and Nedal) asking for the purple lotus, they all gave a negative reply, except for one,” Aiden explained, also going to stand in front of Gwen, with Ryn beside him.

“The one who gave a positive reply was the kingdom of Nedal, and they agreed to give the purple lotus, under one condition,” Ryn added, whispering the last part, but Gwen could still hear it.

Seeing them act like that, Gwen’s curiosity was getting the better of her. She was so eager to hear the condition.

“What condition?” She asked, with a raised eyebrow.

“The condition is that he married their Princess. Princess Nadia of Nedal.”