Not a Slave!!!

Chapter 22

*Alastair Pov*

"We would be reaching there in a few minutes." Colton mumbled, rubbing his eyes as he just woke up.

"Yes! We will wake up the remaining when we reach. They need to rest." I uttered not looking away from the water.

"You should have taken a little rest. It was a long journey and before this too you were busy with the pirates." He suggested making me frown.

"What if they are torturing her?" I questioned to myself and got an imagination of them harming her.

"I do not think so. She saved the life of a King and that too who is the King of Tanika. She must be given some royalty treatment and showing her their gratitude." He replied and I nodded because that can be true.

"What if she left for her home and no one knows where she is?" I questioned another fear.

"Are you ready to knock on every house in every Kingdom?" He questioned back.

"For her I would." I replied and got the answer.

No matter what I should do, I will do it and get her back. How dare I am to reject out marriage and tell her that she is not my wife? I asked myself shaking my head.

"Which Kingdom are you from?" A guard near the shore questioned surprising all of us as he doesn't have a questioning look but just a curious one.

"We are from Nadir." His highness replied.

"Nadir? But we are not summoned to bring the people from that place." The Guard mumbled talking to himself and gestured the remaining guards to reach us while I placed my arm over my sword.

"You cannot harm them. Did you forget, the order from the Council and our King?" Another guard scolded the Guard who stopped us.

"Forgive me for my mistake. What is the work that you have here?" The Guard asked politely.

"We want to meet King Vali." I replied, still with the confusion regarding the things happening before us.

"I will take you there." Guard nodded after knowing our names and asked the warriors of ours to stay back near the entrance of the palace.

"What is happening, Alastair?" Colton asked me and I shrugged, following his highness and her highness.

"When did Council got a fondness for us?" Jacey questioned for which I again shrugged.

"Welcome King Teodor. This is a quite a surprise to see you all here." King Vali uttered the moment we stepped inside the throne room.

"And I hope you are not furious for the wound I got you with. We were just in a rage thinking you had hurt the Princess." He added and now we are more confused because how would we hurt a Princess.

"We were in a war, King Vali. Everything ends with the end of that war." His Highness uttered, and we were offered to sit on the chairs available in the throne room.

"I should thank you all, even from the Council side for taking care of the Princess." He uttered and we all frowned.

"Princess?" I asked him not wanting to have any more confusion.

"Yes! Princess Bhairavi who belongs to Agatha. Agatha is the essential Kingdom for the Council and also the remaining Kingdoms. We all would have doomed if she had not returned or had not been safe. With which we all give gratitude for the help." He replied, but we all stopped breathing in the beginning of his reply itself after hearing that our Bhairavi is the Princess.

"Are you talking about the Woman who saved you during the war and stopped us?" His highness asked while I couldn't get the words out.

"Yes! But I couldn't know the identity of her as she was covering the face. However, I returned to the land to thank the woman and saw the same woman crying near the shore. In a second I can see that she is the Princess and got her here as per her order." He explained and I sucked in a sharp breath.