Chapter 36. Barren

Althea gazed at the walls, sitting slumped in front of her vanity table mirror.

“I want to go out,” she muttered with a deep sigh. Although being locked inside a comfortable bedchamber was still better than being thrown into a dungeon. Luna Meena used to lock her there whenever her father wasn’t around.

“Hmm, don’t worry, My Lady. I’ll talk to Beta Osman about it. Maybe he can help us,” Melva said reassuringly as she began braiding Althea’s hair.

Althea raised a brow and smirked at Melva through the mirror. “You and Beta Osman seem to be getting close.”

Melva paused briefly.

‘He’s easier to deal with than Simon… He’s my mate and yet he seems not willing to acknowledge it.’

Althea blinked after reading Melva’s thought. Simon? Gamma Simon was her mate?!

“Hmmm… aren’t you and Osman mates? You two are always so–” she leaned in with a teasing grin, “friendly?”

She deliberately said that so Melva would confide in her about her true pa