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“Prepare to return there. The contract is not off until Queen Soraya says so.”
“Since when are we following her orders?” I asked, feeling an incredulous look on my face forming.
“It is not about that. I want you to marry the princess,” my father insisted. His face had gotten a little red. Well, good for him. At least he seemed to look healthier than usual.
“Metheus, is the princess beautiful?” Rovali asked, brown eyes looking up at me.
“S-she is,” I startled myself into an answer.
When I looked back at my father, he was watching me knowingly. Almost triumphantly.
“I am simply telling my sister the truth. It does not mean anything,” I said firmly.
“Well, what about the jewels? What did she say?” my father asked.
“She loves them.”
“Then, why is it that you do not want to return? You and I both know that you will not die in her arms.”
“But isn’t that just the thing, Father? She does not know that.”
‘Tell her, then.”
“I do not want to give her any expectations. I was there for the soil. Now, the soil does not need me. I will remain here for the rest of my life.”
“And Razuku, Eli, and Cora?”
“Well, I can have Emir back for them.”
“Even if they do decide not to go through with the marriage, you may want to go there and accept the decision in person.”
“Whatever for?”
“So that you can offer Princess Luella a different proposal.”
I shook my head in frustration.
“Why can’t you just go back to the princess and bring her here?”
This time, it was Rovali who asked the question. She looked at me in expectation, with her big brown eyes. This child would be the death of me. She knew I could never refuse her anything, but maybe it was time to begin.
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It had been a week, and no letter arrived from Queen Soraya. Therefore, it was my duty to get my men ready. I had made sure it was clear that the mission could be aborted at any time. The Queenspell royals might decide to cut off any ties at any time.
“Your Highness, pardon me but can’t we cut off the ties first? You do not have to do their bidding,” Dogan asked. He was a large man, his braids reaching his waist. He also loved the soil, but Arrowspear pride came above everything else.
“It is not just the soil, Dogan. My father wants an alliance with Mogochislenia.”
“What about you, then, Your Highness? Do you agree with your father? You had shown no interest in any woman. If you are to marry this Queenspell princess, then she must be a great beauty.”
I was about to say “no,” it was not about that. I wanted to tell Dogan and the other men that marrying Luella had nothing to do with love and attraction but with pure duty and alliance. However, I also wanted them to respect the arrangement.
“Yes, she is a beauty.”
“She must be if she has an effect on you at all, Your Highness,” a man called Leevar called out. He did not seem to mean any offense. In fact, he seemed delighted about the developments.
I would not be leaving Arrowspear with an army. I told my father that perhaps twenty men would suffice since rain had fallen on Mogochislenia, at least from what we saw from a distance.
