Empresses of Pangaea: The Clash of Queens [ BOOK 1 ]

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Location: The Golden Family Dining Room, The Main Palace Hall of the The Royal Palace of Sekhe, West African State, African Lands.

"I can't believe were actually getting through with this," Esi said as she styled her short thick hair in the mirror. "You know how much those three hate our guts."

A servant was helping Rehema put on her heels, "We have no choice. It's either we get along as a family or scandal and gossip will spread throughout the lands."

Tonight, was the night. They were going to have dinner with their other two sibling's Jatau and Monfia, and their father Keyon Hayslett and end the night giving them their invites to the coronation coming soon. They were just finishing up dressing up for the night before they left their dressing room to go meet them.

Esi was having her makeup applied by a servant, and Rehema was finishing up putting on accessories. "They are lucky you were born the oldest, I would simply tell them and their jack-ass father to kiss my ass," Esi sneered. The servant finished putting on lipstick on her lips and told Esi she was done, moving out of her way, and cleaning up her workspace. Esi got up and admired herself in the mirror.

When Esi yesterday saw Rehema put their names on the invitation list she thought her sister had lost her mind. Those two caused more trouble than anything, and their father was the great mastermind behind all of it. Esi was not going to forget the memories of growing up with them anytime soon.

"Look we need Jatau and Monifa closer to us then further than us," Rehema went on. A male servant was finishing up tying the of the laces of her heels up her leg, while she sat on a stool. "Remember when their father started talking to the press and spreading false rumors about other concubine's. He nearly had Ekon and others sentence to death based on lies of adultery."

Keyon Hayslett was one of the lovers of Tamela Eze who had fell deeply in love with her and never received a high rank position in the harem, even though he was the father to two of her children. Which is something he hates till this day even after the death of his love. So, who did he take the anger out on the most? Rehema and Esi who fathers ranked higher than he ever did and especially Ekon since he was only an adopted father.

Nothing upset that man more that the fact he given the empress two children who he was both the biological father and remained middle ranked in the harem. He didn't even rank high enough to get the Eze last name for himself. He had his two children his daughter Monifa Eze and Tamela's youngest child and only son, Jatau Eze. He raised the two to look at Rehema, and Esi with jealousy and hate instead of a sibling bond of love.

It was when the late empress Tamela Eze found out that he falsely accused concubines of adultery out of jealousy that she completely dismissed him from the harem, slashed his salary, and gave him a low status as punishment. That was when he distanced himself from Rehema and Esi and moved out of the royal palace with his two children. Now that Rehema is the current sitting monarch, she was ready to squash this messy history once and for all.

"I think letting him and Monifa and Jatau live their miserable lives away from us is the best choice but whatever miss peacemaker," Esi said applying a headband to her head.

"They are still royal blood. Eze blood. We can't just throw our sibling's away, especially given how much mother loved all of us." The servant helped Rehema stand up and Rehema admired her light green silk pattern dressed, that stopped at her ankles. The servant put the finishing touches of her outfit by putting on a fur shoulder wrap on her back.

Rehema thanked him, and turned to Esi who had finished her makeup, "Ready to go?" She asked.

Esi nodded and grabbed her purse. Esi was about to light her smoking pipe with a match but Rehema glared at her. Esi stopped midway and groaned putting her smoking pipe away.