Queen Era: The Monster I Love - Chapter 136

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CHAPTER 134

“WHAT?”

Era’s eyes widened in shock at Aeverie’s suggestion. She knew it was not all that bad but she was not yet ready to see Vidor.

She did not know what was going on in her mind and head. All she knew was that she was worried.

“Yes, your majesty. I hate to break it to you but trust me, I am gladly doing so. You care about his majesty. Please pay him a visit,” Aeverie urged.

Resigning herself to her fate, it seemed like she could not really avoid it as much as she wanted to.

“Fine. I would see him but I would just tell him I came to ask if he has taken into consideration my request to make use of the Chambers of Chronicles.”

Pow!

That was it. Aeverie was done for. She did not bother that Era was there and facepalmed herself in utter surrender.

“What? Why hurt yourself, Aeverie?”

“I just wish your majesty would not be the death of me,” she responded lightly.

“Come on, Aeverie. I am not going to be the end of you.”

“With the way you are going your grace, you might as well just be.”

“How?” Era placed a hand on her hip, watching Aeverie try to explain herself through her lashes.

“Simple. How would you, not having seen someone in some days and knowing fully fair that he is ill and his health frail go up to see him and ask him for something?”

“But he should be better by now. Aside from healing pains, the Meribium flower has other healing potencies, making it one of the most sorted after plants in Meribia. Except there is more underlying ailments we are not aware of?”

Shrugging her shoulders, Aeverie shook her head at her. “Well, I wouldn’t know, you know.”

“Hmm. Okay. I would do as you have said. I won’t bring up the issue of the Chambers of Chronicles for now and just see how he is doing.”

“Good, your majesty. It would be greatly appreciated.” After saying that Aeverie was expecting Era to be on her way but the latter stood there gazing at her like she did not know what to do. “Well.”

“Well?” Era dragged the word with her as well.

She threw her hands in the air in utter surrender. “Oh come on, your grace.”

“What?”

“What do you mean by what? Now I think is a good time for you to be your way.”

“Oh, that. You mean like right now?”

“Yes, Queen Era, right now. What s troubling you or should I say scaring you so much that you are finding it hard to do this?”

“I just feel like I do not know what to say to him,” Era confessed.

“Oh my goodness. He is your husband. You have to tell him something, anything in fact. Ask how his health is. Apologize for not coming earlier. You can say you just wanted to allow him rest and you were wondering if he was okay and stuff.”

“Alright.” She shook her fingernails and arms, looking like someone ready for a fight. “It is easy. I can do this.”

Taking a step forward, she stopped in her tracks and turned around swiftly. “Oh no Aeverie I cannot do this.”

“You can and you will, your grace. Remember, you are doing this for the greater good of the kingdom.”

“Greater good?” she felt irked by that thought. “Pff, what greater good.”

“You should have thought about that before saying I do at the altar. Now you two are bound together. I think it is high time you start acting like one, you know. You are stronger than this. Now show me Etheria’s true queen.”

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The room became darker as the day began to change but it did not bother Vidor.

Not even when his servants came into light up the place, he still did not bother with them, instead, he was focused on various scrolls rereading most of them and sorting out those that were properly handled and those that weren’t.

Ever since his minister left, he had been more engrossed with sorting this issue that nothing else mattered other than being a better king just because of his queen.

Before long, time had gone far, and his eyes began to ache him, that was when he thought to take a break and rest.

Leaving his mini study in his chambers, Vidor went over to his ling room area and sat down on to have his lunch well this time around, dinner.

The meal looked inviting and tantalizing, yet he had no appetite to eat even though his stomach growled in protest.

His mind had been occupied since the very beginning, wondering secretly what his queen was up to. This was another reason why he chose to keep this side of him from his ministers. He did not want anyone seeing him as a weakling so he shut them about his love life, safe for his Physician.

And now, he had intentionally locked himself up, buried his eyes in scrolls to study things about his kingdom, day and night and hope she would pay him a visit but not once did she do that.

He felt so bad, so lonely and so rejected by her.

Before the end of the day, he got word from Edgar that Jordan indeed showed up and he had appointed him to serve one of the good and loyal Lords in the castle.

He did not want to bring the boy under his wings so he would not know his identity just yet and even more, he won’t feel angry or betrayed that he was made to serve the man he hated but for anything, it was best.

“Hmm, does she hate me that much? Do I mean so little to her? I even fixed up things for that young lad, yet she doesn’t come to thank me or see me. Is my case that terrible?”

He shook his head. He did not know why such a little thing as this was hurting him so much in ways he could not imagine.

Just now when he was comparing the two of them, he felt a strike in his heart and the ache surged through him. For a minute there, he was tempted to cry out and scream in anger but he managed to hold it all in, and squeezed hard on the cup by his side, breaking the glass in the process.

“Ugh!”

He felt pain again but why he could not tell. The broken shards of glass that pierced into his skin went in deep and before he knew it, he was bleeding.

Rather than been mad, he was fascinated by the idea, fascinated by the new change in his body and wondered what the cause might be.

Suddenly a knock came in on his door but Vidor ignored it. If t was before once he heard that nock, he would shoot his gaze up, hoping to hear them introduce her but to his utter disappointment, that would not be the case.

This time, however, he peeled his gaze reluctantly from his hand when the knock came in a second time and luckily, she was announced.

“Her Majesty, the queen.”

BADUM! BADUM!

Instantly, his calm heartbeat began to speed so fast and thud loudly in his chest as though he just run a marathon.

Badum! Badum!

It continued faster, puzzling Vidor even more. This was so strange, just strange.

It was almost a similar case as to that of Mary and Elizabeth in bible times when Mary knocked and the child in Elizabeth’s womb leapt for joy.

His body was responding to hers in ways he could not imagine it would but why? Was all this change within him just as a result of love?

He never recalled Vemini’s curse to be this way. So why all of these changes.

“Your majesty?”

He heard the call the second time and knew that he had spaced out for too long.

On the other hand, Era stood outside of his door, with sweaty hands. This was not easy for her but she summoned up the courage to do so.

When she thought about him and his illness, her mind drove her back to that day and the kiss. She had not yet revealed it to Aeverie but it was so hard for her to think properly and that was one other reason, perhaps major why she refused to visit him.

Left for her, if he still doesn’t respond after the second call, she would leave him be. At the very least this way he would have saved her the stress of even seeing him and talking.

‘Hmm,’ she took a deep breath in her mind.

‘Perhaps he is mad at me for not coming to see me and that is why he is punishing me thus. I am sorry but how do I even start and from where? I hope he would not use this as a criterion to deny me from accessing the chamber of chronicles when the time comes? Tsk, I did this to myself didn’t I?’