[NOT YOUR MAJESTY BUT AZURA]

Pearler kept looking at Marcus with her brown eyes, not knowing how to bring forth her thoughts. She had lots of questions, but didn't know how to ask them, she had no intentions of upsetting her demon-like husband. What if he ask her to leave the palace and never return? What will become of her and her hidden son?

"Your Majesty, Why do you trust that maid so much? Won't she betray you some day?" Pearler asked after gathering enough courage.

" Don't forget she was the one who almost succeed in killing Azura if not for that bird." Marcus stated, ignoring Pearler's question.

" Have you found the owner of that eagle?" Pearler asked again.

" Not yet, it always disappears when I follow it, but am sure it belongs to that masked man. And the maid said Azura is very found of it." Marcus replied as he sipped his tea.

" What have you given to that maid that made her betrayed her queen for you?" Pearler asked out of curiosity.

" That's non of your business. You are here to help me get this Kingdom's throne, and that's why your father got you married to me, but not to investigate my doings. Go and start with the preparation for the portion and mind your business." Marcus said with an angry but under tone.

Pearler said nothing more but just went out of his study. She closed the door with a bang and wiped off the tears that threatened to fall from her eyes, with the back of her hand before walking lady-likely to the Abuafour palace, where she could weep silently in her room.

__________ Abesselom's mansion.

Aren't you going? She might be waiting for you by now." Gideon said telepathically to Abesselom, who kept reading the writings on the piece of paper in his hand. *MEET ME SAME PLACE*

"I don't know why she wants to see me. The paper shows it important, I showed her how to do this in the life she remembers. But I don't know why she's doing it here too." Abesselom said as he kept looking at the piece of paper.

"Do you think she wants to ask me something about the task she gave me? Maybe she still thinks I didn't go to the ball." Abesselom asked Gideon, which obviously upset him.

"I told you I didn't get there on time to know her reason. We've been going about this same topic since last night. Why don't you just go and meet her? Gideon said loudly in his head as he was fed up with Abesselom's behavior.

" Hay! Do you want to destroy my brain? I get you am going, just stay here and wait for me." Abesselom said and changed his appearance to Enoch.

The same body, but different face, different eyes and hair color, giving him a different, yet handsome appearance. He looked at himself in the mirror and when he was satisfied with what he saw, he disappeared into thin air.

__________ Abess inn

Azura and Lora rode their horses to some meters away from the luxurious inn. They got down from the horses and walked to it entrance and stopped.

"Lora, you can't go any further from here, I don't want anyone to know am here, that's why I dressed up in your clothes. Get back to the palace before they start looking for us, and don't let Marcus know my whereabouts." Azura instructed.

"But Your Majesty, what if something goes wrong. Please let me go with you." Lora pleaded.

" No Lora, please understand me, I didn't informed him I'll be coming with you, and for my safety, he's there to protect me, don't forget he's my husband as I said earlier." Azura said calmly.

" But Your Majesty..... " Lora tried to object again but Azura stopped her.

" Shiiiii... Not Your Majesty, but Azura, your friend. Please Lora, do this for me as my friend and not my lady in waiting." Azura pleaded but Lora didn't respond.

" Or you want him to come here and take me away, disappearing like we last did?" Azura joked

" No Your Majesty, I don't want to see anymore disappearing humans." Lora said and turn to leave, not waiting for Azura's permission.

Azura watch as Lora got on her horse and rode off without saying anything to her. Her face turned sad, not because she card about the formalities Lora skipped, but she felt like she was forcing lora to do what she was not use to.

Azura turn to enter the inn after Lora's retreating figure disappeared from her sight, and she bumped into a toll, hard and well built masculine body. She got frightened to death as her heart skipped a beat, thinking it might be someone who knows the real Azura and maybe heard the short conversation she had with Lora before she left.

Slowly, ever slowly, she lifted her head to see who it was, but her face brightened as excitement replaced her fright, when her nose took in the heavenly sent from Abesselom's body, as her eyes stayed glued to his broad chest. She gulp at the revelation that hit her in the head, but she couldn't believe what she was thinking.

The chest she was glaring at and that of the prince's she had seen were actually the same. The only difference was their completion, which looked a slight inch different. The prince skin was a bit pale than the one she was looking at, but who could it be?

"Are you done admiring my body? Can we go in now? Abesselom said as he held her chine and made her look at his face.

" Enoch, you came? Azura said and threw herself on Abesselom's body, hugging him tightly to herself, forgetting where she was or why she was even there in the first place and he hugged her back.

Few minutes into the hug and her hold started getting weak, but she didn't let go. Her body started shaking and Abesselom get panicked. He pushed her off him and to his surprised, she was crying like a baby. He hugged her again not knowing what to do or what was wrong with her.

Thanks to Gideon who forced him to come earlier, which gave him the chance to ask every single guest out of the inn and it surrendering. He wouldn't have been able to stand it if someone saw the love of his life, his eternal love and the queen of the kingdom crying bitterly in a man's arms.

He carried Azura in a bridal style and took her all the way to the second floor of the inn, where his favorite room was located. The room was two times bigger than any other room in the inn, and he had personally decorated it luxuriously for Azura. He knew a day like this when they will have to meet secretly will come when she finally wake from her comma.

He was a fun of dark colors, but for the sake of Azura, he had decorated the room with purple, gold and white colors, with most of the things in the room like everything cloth, being purple and gold. Whilst the others like furnitures were covered in white and gold.

He placed Azura on the bed and knelt in front of it to console her to stop crying, which she did only after a while of crying. He made her sit and offered her water which he moved into his palms from the table with just a little flip of his fingers. Azura galloped down the entirety of the water before handing the wooden cup back to Abesselom.

"Is there something you want to talk to me about." Abesselom asked when he noticed Azura was a bit calm.

She nod her head and took in a deep breath to calm herself before she opened her mouth to speak. "I want you to send me back to my own life. I don't like it here." She said with her head bowed.

"But why? I thought you were happy being here? What's the need to go back to that life when all you need in life is here for you to have? Abesselom asked as he got up and went to stand close to the window.

She stood up from the bed and followed him. He turned when he heard her footsteps coming close to him and his eyes rested on her rosey lips. He missed kissing her, he felt like liking her lips till they are numb and swollen. He held her and being kissing her all over.

Please send me back, I don't want to be here anymore, I can't live this life you've given me " She said trying to get away from him

"Don't you think this's the best place for us to be together, for eternity as we promised?" He reply while kissing her on the neck and nape.

"But you kno.... Mmmm.. What..are you... doing.... " Her wards were cut short by him with a kiss on the lips, making her speak in-between kisses.

"Just helping you remember the moment we shared in our life as couple, and I miss you my love." He reply as he held the hem of her dress, ready to lift it

"No! That's not what I came here for, why are you doing this to me, how can you live here knowing another man is abusing your child?" She asked, pushing him off her.

He stepped close to her and took a look at her flushed face, then caressed her checks with his fingers. "Why do you want to go back, you've been here for months, and you have a great life here, can't you stay?" Abesselom asked.

"How can you do this to me, you made me abounded my family to be here with you, and what for? To fulfill a promise? Please send me back I don't want to be here anymore." She said angrily.

"I thought you wanted to be with me, you even called me to save you, I did and yet you want to go back." He asked her calmly.

"Yes I know, but we are not the same anymore, you are dead but am still alive, and I am married to another man now, so I have to go back to my life." Azura replied angrily.

"So he's the reason you don't want to be here? Then listen, you are my eternal wife, and I won't let you be with anyone, not even the king here. And as for going back, even if you sussed, you'll be a whole new person without memories of who you are or your previous life, so get used to being here." Abesselom said and left without waiting for her to say anything.