Jane chamber.
"What did father say?" Jane asked her mother anxiously the moment she step into the room. Lady Sam took a deep breath and sat down beside her.
"Your father is really angry this time. He plans to disown you after your marriage to prince Willams as agreed before now," lady Sam replied with a bitter smile on her lips.
"What?" Jane never expected her father to make this kind of decision. Her father had loved and pampered her from a young age. What kind of a father gives up on their daughter.
"Mother, he is not serious, right? Maybe he just said this thing because he is angry. I am sure when he calms down he will consider," Jane tried to convince herself.
"No," lady Sam shook her head. She has been married to her husband for years. The man has only done things that will make his father proud.
"If you still want your father''s support you will have to agree to break off the engagement," lady Sam said.
Jane stood up and shook her head as though her life depends on it. "I am not given up on Prince William. So what if that unknown prince is named the crown prince. There is still time to take back the throne," Jane replied
"Do you really intend to fight with your cousin? If we call off the engagement now, no one will blame you since your cousin is the crown prince. It will be the natural thing to do," lady Sam tried to convince her daughter calmly.
"No mother, I will not. What cousin? I do not know him. I was not born when Aunty Agatha die. This has nothing to do with me," Jane insisted. She has already raised her head so high thinking that she will become the next Queen. How can she give up now? She would rather die trying.
Lady Sam felt a headache hearing her daughter''s reply. "Listen to me, I am your mother and I have your best interest at heart. Given up this marriage will not affect you. If anything you will have more suitors. People will see you as a selfless person, who can see the bigger picture. You gave up your chance to be married to a prince for the sake of your family. Who would not want such a good child to become their wife and daughter-in-law?" Lady Sam said.
Unfortunately, Jane was very greed, if there was a chance to have it all she would take it, without minding who gets hurt in the process. "No mother, I refuse to be like father always doing what grandfather wants. If I give up the marriage and prince William manages to become the king in the future I will be the biggest loser," Jane chose to remain stubborn.
"What if he fails?" Lady Sam could only ask this. Her daughter is too self-driven.
"Then I will bear the consequences. Look at uncle, he always does what he wants and grandfather is so proud of him. Father follows grandfather''s shadow and yet the old man is disappointed," Jane said. Her tone was arrogant it seems she had already accepted the fact that Robert will not be her father going forward.
She has forgotten that one has to have the ability to be stubborn. Lady Sam took a deep breath not knowing what else to say.
"Mother, you will not abandon me will you?" Jane asked when she saw the conflicted look on her mother''s face.
"Of course not," lady Sam did not have the heart. Moreover, she was afraid that she will miss out on the benefits in the future if her daughter managed to become the Queen.
Jane felt satisfied hearing this so she hugged her mother. "I know you love me so much when I became the Queen I will not anything against father for your sake," she said. Lady Sam was very pleased to hear this.
Jane on the other hand had a triumphant smile on her lips. She knew her father doted on her mother so she believed that with her mother''s help her father will change his mind.
....
Somewhere on the road leading to Bozoa.
Dark was had stopped to take a rest after riding for so long. He tied his horse to a tree nearby and sat on a clear stone nearby.
As he eats his food he nothing a black shadow hiding behind the wood nearby. He became alert and draw his sword. "Who is there? Show yourself," He commands in a confident voice. He looked towards the tree but it seem there has been nobody there and what he saw is a fragment of his own imagination.
He did not let his guard down, he checked around and only took a deep breath of relief when he did not see anyone.
He concluded that the person he saw must be scared of him and decided to take another root. He knew there was a chance he was wrong so he decided to leave the place in case the person had gone to get back up.
He immediately loses his horse and continues his journey towards Bozos. He had only ridden a few minutes before he heard the sound of a familiar bird. He looked around him and when he felt certain of the fact that there was no danger, he stopped the horse but did not come down. He whistles for the bird to come over.
When the bird arrived he untied the message from the Emperor and read it.
Not two far away the men sent to follow him also saw him reading the message. "We should step forward and take a look?" One of the men said.
"No, our mission is to follow him, if we go out now there might be a confrontation. And the mission will be compromised," the other reject. It is not that he was scared of Dark. It was just that he was curious about the person behind Dark.
The first man was about to argue when they saw Dark putting the paper into his mouth chewing it.
"He is a loyal dog," the first man said when he saw dark actions. This type of person never gives out information, he might even kill himself.
"Yes, let us just follow him. At least we would be able to see his next move," the other agreed.
The two men had a silent agreement and continue to follow him. Dark was unaware of those that were following him. He turned around and decided to go back to Avalo.
When the two men saw that he suddenly changed his root they were surprised. They knew he was going to Bozoa and the journey was already less than a day before he arrive, so why did he suddenly change roots.
"Do you think he notices us and he is trying to lure us out?" One asked the other.
"Maybe or maybe he got new instructions," the other said.