The Alpha King's Hated Slave
The Alpha King’s Hated Slave Chapter 67

Danika was still in shock when she followed the king. Moved to the fourth bedroom…. Moved to the Royal Quarters….!

Teats burned the back of her eyes when it finally sunk in. Heaves, she has missed that.

The floral scent of a Royal bedroom. The big space. The huge bedroom. She has missed all these and noe, she’ll be moved to a Royal bedroom in the royal quarters.

They cut through another hallway and Danika tried her best not to panic because of his summon,she doesn’t know what’s going through his head.

Punish her? This time around she doesn’t know if it’s the punishment for the way she put her hands on him in court or it’s the punishment for the name Remeta is addressing her as.

When they cut through another hallway, she noticed that his steps got slower, his breathing a little out of the normal like he ran a mile.

His leg! She knows this instantly, her gaze lowing to trail on his right leg from behind.

He seems to be in a great deal of pain and he needs a body to lean on to relief the pressure on that leg. But she also knows that he’ll never call for help.

Weaknesses are like a taboo to a royalty. Especially one as powerful as King Lucien.

She lowered her own steps and kept following him.

Then, he took three more steps and almost lost his balance. She rushed forward immediately without giving it much thought and wrapped her arm around his big body in support.

She leaned into him to take some of his weight….and what a big weight it is.

He stiffened from head to toe and pulled away from her. He glared at her, his cold eyes almost angry….even as there are underlying pain in his gaze.

“Don’t ever try such a thing again or I will have you whipped. Don’t ever put your hand on me like that.” He snarled.

“I’m s-so so sorry, master. Please forgive me.” She pleased.with her head bowed.

He said nothing and started forward again. Only this time, his steps got more slower and he was almost groaning with each step he took.

They are almost at the Royal Quarters but it’s still quite a walk. He stubbled on nothing again.

She pushed forwards impulsively and wrapped her arms around him. She did it before she could think and before her brain activated itself, she had her arms around him and she was taking most of his weight.

“Danika.” One word that held a lot of feelings that wasn’t looking good for her at all.

Well, if she’s going to perish, she might as well go all the way..”Please, let me help, Master.”

“I’m not weak.” He snapped through gritted teeth.

“No, you’re not. But even the strongest of men needs support once in a while, Master. Displaying weakness doesn’t make us weak, it makes us humans.”

When the only answer she got was a grunt, she knew that he must be in a greater pain. When she took a step forward and he didn’t protest, she was relived and took another step forward.

She walked him and he let her. She became his legs and he walked her.

He was leaning heavily on her even as he was keeping most of his weight away from her so he doesn’t crush her. They took steady steps until finally, they arrived at the turn of the hallway that leads to his chambers.

He stopped. “Go and tell the guards that I dismiss them.” He grated, sweat beading on his forehead.

Will they listen to her? She wondered on it but she still nodded, bowed and gently extracted herself from him.

She walked through the turn and strode straight to them. She gave them the King’s orders and none of them argued with her. The door was suddenly empty like the hallway.

“It is done, Master.” She said as she walked back to him.

He nodded curtly and started forward again. She took her position at his side with her arm around him taking some of his weight while she walked him step by step.

They entered his chambers. She walked him to the bed and helped him sit down at the edge of it.

She strode to the bathroom and brought out a small bucket and a wet rag. She came back and lowered herself beside his feet.

When she took his leg into her hand and he let her, she knew just the amount of pain he must be feeling not to say anything. She removed his shoe and raised his garment.

She saw that Baski already applied her herbs on him. She helped rub the herbs all over his leg to touch the places that was untreated because of his walk.

Afterwards, she stared up at him. His eyes was on her, scrutinising her.

She rose herself to her knees and bowed her head to him. “You summoned me, Master.”

The silence was deafening.

Nervousness was all Danika breathed. She pressed her hands together and squeezed to reassure herself but her hands turned cold and clammy.

“Why does she call you that? Her queen?”

“I-I don’t know, Your Majesty.”

“You didn’t ask her to address you that way?”

“I swear it! I’ve been trying to get her to stop but she doesn’t listen……” She informed him miserably.

Silence.

“What do you think you’re doing, Danika?” He asked then in a hard voice.

“I….” she swallowed, “I don’t understand, master.”

“Remeta. How did you penetrate the walls that little lass built around herself? What did you do to her, Danika?”

“I did n-nothing, master. I swear it. Madam Baski was there all along. I didn’t hurt or harm Remeta…!” She gasped, trying to keep the fear from her voice. She doesn’t know where he’s going with this.

The absence of sound resumed again.

And then, he raised a hand and rubbed his clammy forehead. “I didn’t say you hurt her. I said, what did you do to her? How…” he trailed off.

She swallowed tightly and waited.

“How…did you get through to her?” He seemed clearly confused.

“I did nothing special, Master. I only talked to her.” She offered innocently.

“That girl…. I’ve sent for the best medicine man in the whole of England to come treat her, but none of them were able to get her out of the protective shell she built around herself. Her mother…. I…” he paused, closed his eyes. “None of us did that.”

“Instead, she went deeper into her own head and she was loosing it slowly. It was killing her mother, but I told her that it’s time to let Remeta go. She is trying to, but it’s hardest for her.”

Danika just listened as his spoke. She searched her head and realized that this is the first time he is talking to her. Really talking to her.

Not commands. Not hateful short words. Not angry remarks. He was truly talking to her.