Chapter 95

“But he is sick. How did this happen?” Baski asked with just one look at her.

“I… erm, we…” she’d swallowed tightly. “He ordered it,” she’d said at last.

A smile had crossed Baski’s face before she began attending to her. “I’m happy to know that he’s doing better. I will go in later in the day to see him,” she’d said.

Now she reassured Sally that she’d be fine, but she needed a little sleep.

“You can sleep all you want, my princess. I have your back right here.” Sally was determined to make sure that no one would wake her up, too.

Danika smiled at her in gratitude. “What would I have done without you, Sally?”

She waved her off with a smile. “You could have done so much and more. But I’m not letting you go. I stick like glue.”

The king was in the library in the inner room, reading a book in concentration, when Vetta announced her arrival.

“Where have you been all day?” he asked without raising his head from the book.

She was stand