Chapter 25

Princess Alesa frowned, she was indeed very hungry, how would she starve the whole night, she had not even eaten anything except for the meal she had in the morning.

"Am seriously telling you the truth, I didn't come here with any cloth so I had no other option than to opt for the maids clothes," She explained.

"How convincing of you, but guess what, I can't buy that. Just leave here before anyone sees you and report you to Queen Mahama as no one is allowed to near the Royal kitchen, Or did you intend poisoning the Royal family?"

"No!," Princess Alesa stiffened.

"I wouldn't leave here, unless you serve me my food." Princess Alesa folded her arms above her chest as she waited to the head maid to instruct her assistant maid to go serve her own food

"Is that so, Guards!," Alora thundered as she called on the guards, guarding the second floor. Two guards immediately rushed up to her command.

"Take this woman away from here, she has interior motive of poisoning the Royal family," Alora said.

"What!," Princess Alesa was startled, "That's not true don't you dare to believe her, I actually.." Before she could explain the two guards grab her arm as they bundle her away.

"Let me go," Alesa struggle to break away from their hold. The head guard saw her as she was drag downstairs to the first floor.

"Leave her alone," Samson thundered, "How dare you touch her, Release her at once or you have Prince Ali to contend with."

"Am sorry my Lord, but The chief maid said she went to the kitchen wanting to poison the Royal family." The guards holding her try to explain her crime

Hearing them Princess Alesa immediately defended her innocence, "That's a lie I actually went their to ask her for food, I haven't eaten since morning and I didn't see the maids whom use to assist me, that was why I went there."

The two guards immediately released her at once hearing her claim, just then Chika and Tasha came out as they have been transferred to the first floor to do their duties. "She's telling the truth," Chika bowed her head as she spoke to the head guard, knowing he was also Prince Ali shadow guard.

"Hmm, I will pardon your mistake but you should note that no one is allowed to go to the kitchen except for the maid in charge, Go and call Alora," Samson spoked to the guard working in the second floor. He was on his was to the third floor, when he decided to come downstairs again to go check on the wounded guards that were receiving treatment before he saw the two guards roughly dragging the lady that Prince Ali had brought into the palace. He still couldn't forget the state that he had seen her that day. If it wasn't that he had stared at her beautiful face that day, he wouldn't have recognized her to be the same girl. She was indeed very beautiful and outstanding, even as she was wearing the Kande Palace maids custom, she still look like a goddess. Samson look away from her, before he would start having perverted thought as the lady was too beautiful and alluring.

Alora arrive where they stood waiting for her, Samson asked, "Why did you accuse her wrongly is that how you do your job in the palace, lying on someone else, something as big as that, you will be punished for having such deadly thought against the Royal family and putting the blame on someone else, Simon! Take her away and make sure you give her Twenty stroke of lashes, I should hear the sound from the third floor, is that understood?" Samson thundered.

"Yes My Lord," Simon replied and two more guards came and join him and drag Alora away out to the punishment area, she cried and pleaded for mercy, but no one was ready to listen to her.

Simon returned to hand over the key to the kitchen to Samson, he turned and called Tasha, as he had always known Tasha since their childhood they work in the palace.

"Take, you will be the new Chief maid as from now onwards, your duty post as been shifted back to the second floor, and no one else is allowed to take your post except you permit of it, ask a maid to serve her food," Samson gave out orders, then he turned and headed upstairs, going to the third floor.

Alora hadn't expected to be wiped, she thought no one knew whom that girl whom had claimed to be the princess was, so she lied on her head, so the guards would punish her, now she was the one getting punished. If she had known that her lies will cost her getting flogged mercilessly, she wouldn't have lied, she could have just serve Princess Alesa her food before asking her to leave, she cried heavily as the guards continue to whip her mercilessly, tying her to the bench, as they flog her.

Queen Mahama heard the screamed and sound of someone being whipped as it was already past 8pm in the evening as they were having dinner. She sat on her usual dinning seat, with Prince Ali seating on her right side while Princess Ella sat on the left side.

It wasn't their etiquette to speak while eating, so she ate her meal in silence, while hearing the agonizing cry of the person been flogged, until the sound of lashing ended.

Prince Ali was the first to finish up his food, he used the table napkin, a serviette to clean wipe his mouth, then he stood up and left the dinning room, going back to his chamber, he called Samson and ask, "what's going on downstairs?."

"You majesty, Alora the head maid, lied on the woman you brought into the palace, so I ask the guards to punish her."

Prince Ali stiffened heading Samson words, "What did she lie about?" He asked.

"She accused the woman of wanting to poison the Royal family, whereas she went there to ask Alora for food," Samson explained.

"Hmph.." Prince Ali sighed, he could have asked her to come have dinner with them, but he knew his mother wouldn't agree, and he doesn't want to do anything to piss his mother off.

"That's fine, has she been given anything yet to eat?" He ask.

"Yes your highness, I assigned Tacha to take over Alora position, so she has given her something to eat My Lord," Samson replied.

"It okay, you can return back to your position." Prince Ali left him and went downstairs to see Alesa, he knew he had not really shown her much care or concern if she was given anything to eat, because he doesn't want anyone getting suspicious about his affair with her, he sighed as he took the stairs going downstairs to the second floor.