Chapter 195

The king stood frozen at the door of the Library.

Then Remeta's monotonous voice began. “He dragged her from the backyard to the storeroom with the threat of a knife in his hand. She fought him. He hurt her. He choked her and dr**ged her. She fell asleep, and he pulled off her clothes.”

The king turned and stared at them, his brows knitted.

Corna continued. “‘I have her all to myself at last,’ he kept saying. He positioned her body to have her, but the thwee witnesses entewed. The plans they made changed. That was not the plan, for he expected a maid to find the slave in his arms.”

“He never expected the king himself,” Remeta finished, her dazed eyes looking in the general direction of the king without seeing him.

“You mean to tell me that this is what transpired between my slave and the former slave trainer?” the king asked, his face unreadable.

“They are seers, my king! They do not lie! Oh, the heavens intervened for her!” Baski was already cryi