Loren sighed very heavily as if weighing what was next to say.
"The Queen has been very good to me." She said sadly.
Loren smiled. "Yes, she is a just Queen."
Then Loren’s smile fell. "You knew about the spy your father sent, but you did not tell anyone? Not even me?"
Jasmine felt her knees go weak.
She also could not tell him that her father had spoken to her, and she was now beginning to supply him with information.
He was her father if only he knew how much fear he had instilled in her.
"I did not think much of it." She lied.
"You should have still told me," Loren emphasized in anger. "You need to understand that things are not the same here as in your back home."
"I apologize for my actions." She said.
"He has no choice but to spare you; moreover, there is no direct truth that you had any hand in the attack." He said. "The man probably had arranged for it since and then went on with the attack. You didn’t know."
How could she tell him that not even her father’s spy had sent the person to kill Xaden?
Was she one hundred percent sure of that?
"I heard Xaden will not do anything to your father," Loren said.
She blinked in shock. "He will let it go?"
Loren laughed. "God, no. He is saving it for the first day of the new moon when he can be free to kill your father. It is like leaving the chicken free to roam until the night before a festivity. Your father will die when Xaden wants."
She breathed better.
Although she did not understand why, a part of her wished Xaden had gone after her father and ended it all for once.
But she nodded and acknowledged Loren.
"There was something that you said you knew before those noisy guards came in." He said.
"Yes." She said, adjusting her sitting composure. "Princess Cherry and the King are having an affair."
Loren blinked at her without saying a word.
His silence terrified Jasmine out of her witts, and she instantly started to regret why she had told him.
Eventually, he broke the silence. "Cherry and Roland? The Kind and the Queen who would have been?" freewebnσvel.cѳm
Jasmine was already misgivings from his initial reaction, but what had she expected?
That he would believe her? A slave?
And to make such a powerful accusation against the royal family.
She could be tried for treason and killed instantly.
But then she nodded.
"But the King despises Cherry. He can’t stand her, and he was the main reason why she was sent into exile." A perplexed Loren said. "Jasmine, are you one hundred percent certain of what you saw?"
She wanted to shake her head and say no because of how he was reacting, but she nodded and said.
"Yes. I saw them. Twice." She said.
"Did any of them see you?" He asked her.
"They both saw me the first time." She admitted. "They were just kissing. The king warned me and told me that I had not seen anything and threatened my life. And then the other time, I believe they were having sex. They did not see me, but they knew someone was present."
Loren took a deep breath, folded his arms, and began pacing the room.
"You believe that I am lying." She said in all earnest.
"Of course not," Loren said. "I believe you. Although no one will. Because everyone knows that the King himself can not stand his sister-in-law, it is not a new story, so if anyone else knows, they would report immediately."
Then he looked down at Jasmine closely. "You have not told anyone what you just told me, have you ?" He requested.
She shook her head. "No, I have not."
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