Chapter 166

She got up from the grass and walked towards Remeta. She pulled the girl’s arm, causing her to stop plucking the flowers and look at her.

“Remeta?”

“My beloved queen,” she replied with a pure smile.

Danika knelt to eye level with her. She began in a gentle, coaxing tone. “Please, Remeta, save me. Save my child. ‘The prince’ like you call him. The courting week had ended, and I need the king to know that I’m carrying his child before he finds out by himself and thinks I’ve betrayed him by keeping it from him. Not to mention when he gets the idea in his head that he isn’t the father of our child. I shudder to think of what will happen to me then.” She shook Remeta’s arms slightly to see the intensity of her pleas. “Please, Remeta, go to him and tell him. I’m tired of carrying this secret, it’s too heavy. It’s weighing me down, stressing me badly. I don’t know what else to do. Please, Remeta?”

Silence met her pleas. Her knees on the grass began hurting as time p