Chapter 75

Where is Maryline?

The palace is very calm and empty. The day has started rising. The outside is still barely dark. Maids are waking up for their daily routine, as usual, before the first cock crow. While Maryline has been loitering around till then.

“What the hell is wrong with you?” Veruska, the oldest maid, asks. She hates Maryline and always calls her a slut for sleeping with kings to gain favour. 

“Mind your business!” Maryline slurs and moves away. 

“Hmmm...” the old woman grumbled.

“What happened to us?” the guards finally wake up dancing with headaches after a few hours of sleep. They are still weak due to the effect of the poison but strong enough to start worrying about their lives.

The rising day meets the King already seated in the great hall contemplating his next move. He didn’t sleep the whole night. But how could he, after receiving the greatest disgrace of his entire life, as if his defeat at the boundaries of the Terre