EIGHTEEN: To Watch Someone Truly Suffer

The next few days continued much the same as the previous ones had been.

The only difference being that guards were now stationed inside the Ruby Room at all times as well as outside the door.

The previous Pandreian King, when he caught wind of the Emperor and Queen being in danger, sent a dozen of his former personal guard members to them. Calix, however, sent them back without a second thought.

"The last thing we need is more assassins waiting inside our room as 'guards'," he had scoffed bitterly, watching them march back the way they'd come.

Instead, he opted to recruit some of his own soldiers to serve as guards both inside and outside the bedroom.

Kel was initially hesitant at the thought of having the knights watching while she and the Emperor slept, but, fortunately, Calix was too exhausted by the time nightfall came to do anything obscene while they laid under the blankets together.