The Alpha King's Hated Slave
The Alpha King’s Hated Slave Chapter 58

Baski nodded, and started walking away from them. She was doing her best to detach herself from it all, “She doesn’t want to eat because she’s scared of what will follow. No matter how much I try to get her to understand that she’s finally safe, it doesn’t believe it. I’ve tried to get her to eat…it doesn’t matter, she won’t.”

She finished the last work with a loud bang of the door as she entered another room in the small house. It’s Danika and Sally alone in the sitting room.

Sally started sobbing. “This is so terrible…! This is so horrible…! Oh, my princess, I can’t imagine what Remeta is going through. She’s trapped in her head! She’s trapped!”

She raised her eyes and swiped at her eyes, but more tears kept falling as she continued, “I can’t imagine what it’ll feel like being so trapped in the past….! I do my best not remember that day at the courtroom, and that’s because I have you to distract me…I have you to be there for me and that’s why I don’t think about it so much….! She has no one…! She’s trapped! Trapped!”

Danika wrapped her eyes around Sally as she cried so hard, her body shook with the force of her sobs. Danika’s tears run freely down her cheeks as she consoled Sally.

Finally, she pulled Sally away from her body. “Stop crying…you’ll fall sick again.” She chided softly.

Then, Danika left Sally standing there. She walked back to the Remetas’s bedroom and entered inside it.

The girl wasn’t within sight, but Danika knows that she’s behind the wardrobe.

“Remeta?” She called softly, wiping the tears from her eyes.

Slowly, the girl pushed her head out from behind the wardrobe and peaked at her from behind her massive dirty blond hair.

“Who’s there?” The girl’s tiny voice trembled.

“My name is Danika.”

The girl flinched. “Sounds like the name of a queen.”

Danika let out a startled gasp, not knowing what to say about that.

“I’m not a queen. I’m your friend.” She whispered at last.

“Remeta has no friends. She is mad in the head.” The girl replied in that tiny voice that squeezes Danika’s heart.

“You’re not mad in the head.” Danika tried to reassure her.

“That’s what they all say…”

“People will always say bad things about good people all the time. It’s because they are jealous.”

The girl let out that empty laughter again. “Whoever is jealous of Remeta is mad in the head. Remeta has nothing to be jealous about.”

“Oh, I think that’s a lie. Remeta is a very beautiful young girl when she bathes and eats so well. I bet it’ll make people jealous.” Danika supplied, even though she has never seen the girl’s face before.

But then again, Remeta was once a King’s Slave. That must say something for the fifteen-year-old girl.

Remeta shook her hair vigorously, causing it to wave all around her. “No bath, no bed. No food, no bed.”

Danika teared up again. How can such little words have the power to tear through a person?

“No, Remeta. There will be no bed again, ever.” She tried to reassure her.

“Mama says that all the time. Mama lies. They still come and take me tomorrow.” She whispered.

The girl is really trapped in her own head. “Please, look at me, Remeta. You will see that I eat really well and I bathe so good, but there is no bed. I’m a….female like you. There is no bed.”

Silence. Danika heard sniffles, but she didn’t turn, knowing fully well that Sally is standing by the door. Sally, and Baski.

Finally, Remeta raised a dirty hand, pushed her hair to the back of her hair and stared at her.

Danika got the first good look on the girl and her thoughts was really confirmed. Remeta is a very beautiful girl…under all those dirts and bruises on her face.

She let Remeta look at her for as long as she wanted, and she can see the way the girl’s eyes widened.

“You’re Royalty.” Remeta said so suddenly, she took everyone by surprise.

Danika was stunned, her mouth hanging open. She looked down at herself and she was in a slave uniform. How did Remeta get that idea?

Her eyes followed Remeta’s eyes and rested on the gold bracelet Sally had forced on her wrist before they came out of the palace.

The gold bracelet that always belonged to her right from the time she was still a princess, but she stopped putting it on after she was enslaved so she wouldn’t get punished. Sally had forced to her wrist to ‘make her more beautiful’ before they started this errand.

Now, Danika raised her wrist, staring at the bracelet. She was tongue-tied.

“You’re Royalty…” Remeta repeated again.

Danika decided to tell her the truth. She nodded her head, “Yes, I was Royalty but—“

“You are Royalty!” The girl shouted, her eyes finding Danika’s face.

She started talking to herself, “I know you looked like a queen. Royalty has power. Royalty is the highest. Royalty has everything. She is Royalty and she said she’s Remeta’s friend. Remeta has a friend that’s royalty. Remeta is a friend to a queen.” then, she raised her eyes and pinned Danika with haunted eyes, “Royalty can protect Remeta…right?”

Danika turned and stared behind her at Remeta’s helpless mother, and a crying Sally.

She faced the girl again and nodded her head. “Yes. Royalty can protect Remeta.” She answered firmly.

The girl’s eyes watered up. “Royalty has power. Can command people not to touch Remeta. Can command them to leave Remeta out of bed, right?”

Danika nodded again, blinking hard to keep the tears at bay.

“Remeta can eat and bath and go out….and no bed, right?” She asked in a small voice.

“Yes, Remeta. I will make sure of that.” Danika promised sincerely.

“Remeta can smile and look beautiful…and no bed, right?”

“Yes, Remeta. I’ll give commands and make sure there’ll be no more beds again for you.”

The girl took a faltering step away from the wardrobe, coming out. She stopped and hesitated, “Do you promise…? Royalty does not break promise… Do you promise?”

Danika nodded twice. “Yes, I promise you, Remeta.”

Silence.

And then, Remeta ran from across the bedroom and threw herself on top of Danika, throwing her thin arms tightly around Danika, she clung tight to her.

Danika would have lost her balance and fallen under such huge impact of the hug if it was another person. But, Remeta is so thin from starving herself and Danika prepared herself for the impact when she saw the girl flying across the bedroom towards her.

Not minding the girl’s dirty state, Danika wrapped her arms around her and held on tight. “It’s okay. I’ve got you.” She soothed softly.

She felt tears splash on her shoulder as Remeta whispered, “Remeta has a friend that is Royalty. Remeta is finally safe.”