A Mother's Will

Chapter 5

Jovana did not have breakfast and left to her guest room, where she freshened up and wore a sweet, subtle purple romper with a box heel and some yellow beads around her neck and hand. She also wore a dangle yellow-white shade of flowered earrings. She then spent some more time hanging out at gratia, reviewing that place to the core. Many things had changed, but the originality remained.

Gratia was the only place where the royals lived now. It was huge, it had a forest to itself, a royal graveyard, 3 different sized and shaped swimming pools, a golf course, and the most beautiful horse stable of all times. Gratia was more than 20,000 acres. The palace was a c-shaped building, thus 3 wings, with 6 floors plus a terrace, the terrace had a garden with rose and sunflower harvest on it, and some places had a really cozy sitting arena. The 6th floor was filled with as many as 12 bedrooms and a very spacious home theater. The 5th was even beautiful with the whole floor covered with books; it was the royal library on the 5th floor, the whole floor.

The 4th floor had about 10 rooms all meant for the family members, this floor was very noisy at all times say all the youngsters lived there. The 3rd floor was with the king's, queen's, 2 princess rooms, and 2 prince rooms so a total of six rooms. Given that Jovana had the biggest room in the entire palace which is going to have a bed that opened to the forest view balcony, a small garden which was tended by Jovana herself with a swing for Jovana. It was very spacious with area for her to dance and sing, a walk-in closet and further a library with her study table in place. Her bathroom was equally big with a mini pool and three different shower rooms within it, she had a mini pantry that she shared with the king's room, queen's and prince room. The queen's and the second princess room didn't even occupy 20% of the floor, while Jovana's room occupied 30% and the king's room was second biggest with 20% of the floor and the 2 prince rooms occupied 15% each, space of the floor.

Further down it was 2nd floor on which they had the families most beautiful assets the memory walls and the ancient artifacts form the past, the 2nd floor was no less than a museum and many historians visited to see the collections, it is also said to be the punishment floor many guilty were mured alive in the walls. Even though the skeletons are a source of information, they show mercilessness of the past kings. This punishment thingy went as recent as her great grandfather only about 60 years ago it was completely fine for the king to punish the guilty. Alongside being a museum, it also had the throne room, the royal throne made of gold was actually kept here. Moving down on the 1st floor where the conference room was built during renovation but originally it was a storage room. 1st floor also had a studio where the artists of the house worked nicely. It also had a gym and a pantry.

Now the ground floor It had the kitchen, the main pantry of the house, the bar where the bottles emptied on parties, the dining room, the rule to sit and eat a meal together at least for one meal per day. The living area with a huge television, every room had a television though, but something about the living area is different. It had a family meeting room with a chimney and a brick décor to make it comfy. Finally, the greenhouse which occupied the most space with all the trees, the flowers, the fruits, it was defiantly heaven. Now there was more to this the ground floor had internal balcony structure with first floor as they were the family's notorious spaces, so anyone could stand above you and you wouldn't know that. Some washrooms of course on every floor for guests and the family to use just in case you see.

The basement had storage now, which stored the wine, the grains, and other things needed—basically, the supermarket of the gratia. In the middle of the C-shaped building was the temple of the family, with the lord statues of Lord Krishna, Lord Shiva, and their goddess Kalika. The two ends of the C were two towers where Jovana's mother Maria made her art work, one of which was well, haunted. There are tales in every family, and this being a royal family, of course it had to have stories, but for now both towers were not in use, although they were well maintained like everything else.

There were special arrangements made for any guests that waited through the night. On the exterior side of one of the wings was another 6-story building that had only rooms with a mini bar, kitchen, and dining. Even though it was just meant for the guests, it was no less royal. The servants had a special quarter outside the Gratia in the 3-story building, which was about a kilometer away from the Palace. Which was also very 7-star.