The Alpha King's Hated Slave
The Alpha King’s Hated Slave Chapter 252

Eight Weeks Later….

“You have to be in court, Your Highness, everyone is waiting for you.” Baski announced as she entered Queen Danika’s bedroom.

The thirty-three weeks pregnant Queen was standing in front of the mirror in her expensive, extravagant royal gown made by the finest lace and silk, rich in velvet. The red and gold-colored luxurious tunic gown also contained embroidered lace and gems. Her long blond hair was wavy and styled, it pulled down behind her back.

The Queen looks so devastatingly beautiful—even in her condition—but she isn’t happy.

She misses King Lucien with an intensity that is so terrifying, it remains indescribable.

As days go by, she misses him so badly that she has to cry herself to sleep in her cold empty bed most of the nights, unless Sally comes with her story-parchments. She regrets running away from him that night they had a misunderstanding.

She should have stayed and talked more sense into that hard-headed man. She should have tried to hold on to him more. To convince him more. She should have allowed him to touch her when he reached for her….

Two months without his touch is like being in hell without salvation. She has no idea how addicted she has become to his touch until it was no longer there. And now, her people want her to marry. To allow the touch of another man.

Revulsion. Repulsive. Just the thought of it. And yet it’s about to happen.

“I don’t want to be forced to take a husband, Baski. You know that is what this meeting is all about.” She g*****d miserably, still staring at her reflection in the long mirror.

“I also know that you’ve avoided this meeting at all cost for the past two months, and what else I DO know…is that it can no longer be avoided, My Queen.” Baski was sad.

“How can they push an eight-month pregnant woman into marriage!? This is ridiculous! Are they even thinking at all?” She wants no other man. And yet the one she wants is so out of reach now…

“They are, My Queen. It would have been ridiculous if the woman wasn’t a Queen, but unfortunately, she is.”

Danika shook her head helplessly. “I’ve requested countless times that they wait for me to put to bed, but since this child is not Mombana’s, they do not want to wait that long. They need a King to rule alongside me, according to the Minister of Justice.”

Baski couldn’t conceal her sadness. She doesn’t want Danika to be forced to take another husband either, but the choices are thin at this point.

In the past two months, Queen Danika had surprised the whole of Mombana with the way she went about righting her father’s wrong, she succeeded in doing so much more than a King that has been on the throne for years.

She distributed food items and foodstuffs from the palace to the people. In the market, she opened up more trading businesses for lowborn that had nothing before. She has done so much, it’ll make a list. And because of all these, her people have accepted her all the more.

The only thing that remains is to give her people a King that will rule with her, and she will be accepted fully not just by the people, but by all the laws and customs of Mombana.

Another main purpose of having a King—apart from ruling with her—is to secure an heir for the throne of Mombana. The fact that the Queen is pregnant does not matter.

According to the laws, customs, and traditions of all Kingdoms, the child in the Queen’s belly does not count because the child does not belong to the King of that Kingdom, and also the child is produced outside—and before—her marriage with her King…whoever her King will be.

But, all this doesn’t really matter because even if the child in her belly does not have a place in the throne of Mombana once the Queen takes a King, the child will always have a place in the throne of Salem. The sole heir to the throne of Salem.

King Lucien must have thought all these through before he freed Danika, Baski thought with an inward sad smile as she led Danika out of her bedroom towards the Court.

As Queen Danika went to court, her heart was heavy and her mind was filled with thoughts.

How is King Lucien? According to Chad who is always in Salem or Mombana, the King is fine. And yet, she cannot help worrying so much for him.

Apart from the worry for his health, she can’t help the continuous painful thoughts in her mind. Is he thinking of me? Does he miss me as much as I miss him? Does he worry about our child? Does he miss having me in his bed?

Does he miss me in the cold darkness of the night?