Breaking out

Chapter 17

"Was I gone too long or is your husband possessed?" Zeke asked, his gaze locked on Aki for a moment.

"Nah, just a change in wardrobe, he looked like a ghost you know,"

Yeran replied, knowing that if Zeke were to find out of the assassination attempt he would not be thinking a second before attacking Aki then and there, which was a catastrophe he would not need to be on witness.

"I don't think so, his face....there is something different," Zeke took a step closer, locking his eyes onto Yeran's.

Yeran laughed, his heart racing.

"Supppse the guy is coming to his skin," he said, noting how an arrow is spinning in a dizzying arc in Aki's hand.

Not knowing the victor if a battle were to occur could be considered the worst issue Yeran would be having to face, despite the other threat of the looming war.

Zeke opened his mouth to say something, which got cut off by the queen forcing herself in the middle of the conversation.

Face as black as he is feeling inside his soul, Yeran dragged Aki away from both his mother and Zeke, him offering no resistance.

Yeran threw a glance over his shoulder, meeting Zeke's eyes for a moment, having a silent conversation. Zeke forced a smile on, understanding.

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"Zeke!" Yeran gasped, pulling the knight inside the tent hastily.

"Hello," Zeke greeted.

"I'm fine Yeran, you do not need to worry. But first, tell me what happened to writing every day? I thought you wee dead" Zeke reached up to snap a finger against Yeran's forehead.

"Ow!" He cried. "Why attack me? It was my mother," Yeran replied, scowling.

"The queen? I noticed her favoring your Prince Consort,"

'What is it with people saying titles as if curses?' Yeran silently wondered.

"Not just her, everyone favors him," Yeran frowned.

"Servants, maids, guards, everyone,"

"And the king?" Zeke asked, his brows drawn together.

"I do not think father has interacted with Aki so far, in fact, he had not even spoken with me out of official reasons after the marriage." Yeran clarified.

"I do not trust him," Zeke said.

"Aki? Me either, he is not the same person I thought he was."

"Not a doll, I assume?"

"If he is, then a woodoo doll most likely." Yeran said, startling a laugh out of Zeke.

"That bad?"

"Sort of creepy, his moods change so rapidly, smiling one second and going blank the next, and most of all, he is so annoying!" Yeran complained.

"Annoying?"

"Yes...I can't make a sense out of him, he is never doing what is expected, he's a variable we had not accounted for, Zeke, we need to be careful around him." It was all Yeran could say without revealing Aki is an assassin bluntly.

"I told you from the beginning he cannot be trusted, no one is that good, nor polite or courteous."

Yeran nodded, agreeing.

"Her majesty makes you spend time with him? I heard from the knights, they have such wild stories," Zeke asked.

Yeran groaned.