Chapter 45: Suspicious Knight
The princess swore if she wasn’t even in the midst of vampires in another kingdom right now, she would have definitely clawed out the eyes of the woman in front of her this instant.
"My queen, you need not to worry," King Raxus assured his wife, "you will always be the star in my skies. You shine so brightly it would be the death of this vampire."
The queen covered half of her face with a feathered fan, a blush tinting her pale cheeks.
"Oh, your majesty," she said, "you always had powers in your words even without commanding anything."
Elys caught herself almost rolling her eyes. She had heard from Henry the queen was nothing but a trophy wife to the king. Now, every romantic interaction between the king and queen looked fake to her.
In fact, the sweetness between the two was so fake the taste of her sweat might as well be sweeter.
The king continued to laugh and then noticed how Aleksander hasn’t spoken since he greeted them before his announcement.
"Son, speak to me," he demanded from the prince.
Aleksander had wanted to shut his mouth, trying as hard as he could to contain all the tactless things that he was on the verge of blurting out.