Queen Era: The Monster I Love - Chapter 149

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CHAPTER 147

“That way you won’t have to work double to get more money. I would pay you more than what you earn from both jobs,” Vidor offered.

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For a minute there, Jordan’s eyes flew wide open. This meant the world to him. There was a way he could earn so much at such a young age.

But having a second thought on it. The fact that the man before him was willing to give him such without asking for something in return was fishy to him.

Besides, Vidor probably did not like him and would always find ways to hit him, wouldn’t he? If that was the case, then he was suffering for the money and he would always be jealous of his wife if she met him again.

“Nah, I’ll pass. I would rather work for the king instead. You would only bully me.”

Narrowing his eyes at the young lad, his lips curved upwards a bit to the side. “Are you sure about that?”

“Very. No matter how bad the king is, he isn’t you. I would make my chances with him then.”

“Okay. As you wish. I would inform Edgar to make it happen.”

“Really?” Once again, Jordan was feeling so happy about the news. At least serving the king, he had more pay and would be treated better, he hoped.

He had seen one of the king’s maids before and saw her fresh she looked. Without being told, he knew she was enjoying.

Of course they would want the King’s people to look good else it would tell bad on him.

‘Hmm, perhaps he is doing all of these to get me to want to follow him instead. Nope. I would take my chances with his majesty.’

“Well do I look like someone who would lie to you?” Vidor asked moving towards the stable.

“Well no.”

“At least you trust me. We can work with that. Tell Edgar when you see him, I said he should take you to be the king’s boy.”

“Okay sir. Hey, wait, where are you going?”

He quickly yelled when he saw Vidor heading towards the horses.

Honestly, he was new here so he did not know that this was Vidor’s routine of coming to take a horse from the stables and riding to do his secret deeds,

So when he saw Vidor going in, he was alarmed and worried he would lose his job.

No one told him of anyone coming for some riding at night. This was risky.

“Hey, Mr Vid , please stop you wou,d get me in trouble.”

Ignoring him, Vidor went for horse and climbed on it. “Sir, please do not get me in trouble.”

“No one is going to get in trouble if you quiet down but if you keep talking, then you, would be in trouble. Not a word of my outing to anyone lad and I here.” He threw him a pouch of some coins and while he got distracted, Vidor rode away on his horse.

“Oh shit, he completely tricked me. Tsk, I would wait till he returns and catch him,” Jordan was determined.

Letting out a sigh, he decided to check what was in the pouch and to his surprise, it was five gold coins inside.”

His eyes went wide as he looked at the shining coins in the pouch. When was it that he ever held such amount of money before in his life?

His lips parted along his eyes as he looked back up only to see that Vidor’s silhouette had been long gone.

There and then, he had quite the smile on his face as he closed the pouch and kept it in his pocket then headed outside to keep watch.

About ten minutes later, Edgar walked up to him where he sat keeping watch and lightly tapped him on the shoulder.

“Hey Jordan, how is work eh?”

“Shit,” he muttered to himself. “Umm, fine sir.” He scratched the back of his head and smiled at him.

In his mind, he hoped that Edgar would not go into the stables and see that one of the horses went missing. His life would have ended before Vidor returned with the horse.

“So how are them horses?”

“They are doing fine sir.”

“Okay. I am going in for a look.”

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“Sir, do you not trust me? I said they are all good. Do not worry so.”

“I know what I am saying, Jordan. Let me go in and see. This is a normal routine check if you are doing your job properly.”

He knew he was done for, but what morw could he do and the more he resisted, the more Edgar would find it fishy and actually want to go in.

Without uttering another word, he followed after Edgar and when they got in, he lowered his head.

In his mind he had already prepared himself for the kind of yelling he would get and just hoped that he wouldn’t lose his job after all this.

‘Sigh, I guess this was what the coins were for. Perhaps he wanted me to come up with any kind of lie to cover up for the missing horse or something. Well here it goes.’

No sooner had that thought crossed his mind than Edgar’s eyes spotted the missing horse and swiftly turned around to look at him.

The way the older man stared him down made him feel a weight like no other suppress his person.

If he could have, he would have passed out at that moment so he did not have to take the brunt for Vidor and probably before he awoke, Vidor would return and spare him the kind of lecture he would be getting.

But no matter how much he willed himself, nothing was coming, just his eyes spinning in theor sockets.

As though Edgar knew what he was saying, he echoed his order at him.

“Don’t you dare even think of fainting!”

“Yes sir.”

“Now, tell me where is the King’s horse?”

“What?!”

He could not believe his ears let Aline his eyes. He had been so busy when Vidor climbed thw horse that he didn’t notice anything and what was worse was the fact that…

“Gosh.”

“What did you say? Jordan I asked where the King’s horse is?”

“The King’s horse?” Jordan repeated after him.

“Yes, the King’s horse. Like his majesty the king. You better start speaking or it would be some beating for you,” Edgar threatened.

He could visibly see the shaking if the young boy but that was what he was after.

The truth was, for many nights now, anytime he out someone to watch over the horses, that particular horse would always leave the stables or sometimes just any horse but the boys won’t even know who took it.

So he kept on changing them but got the same result and due to the fact that the king always saddled Jim with work, he couldn’t keep watch himself but anytime he finished with his duties, he hurried there as quickly as possible but he met the same scene.

However though, the next morning the horse would have returned but he always wondered.

Today however, he tried to be here on time and unlike the rest who slept, he met Jordan awake so he wasn’t letting him go without an explanation.

‘He really has killed me. Remind me why I would ever think of working for him, huh? This man must be paying me back since I rejected his offer. Damn with his gold. I am not bearing this alone.’ Jordan finalized in his mind.

“Jordan…” Edgar called out in a warning tone, further scaring the young lad.

“Sir, honestly, I didn’t think that was thw King’s horse. I didn’t even know anything about the horses.”

“That is not the question I asked. For the last time, where is the King’s horse?”

“I sincerely don’t know sir.”

“You cannot tell me a horse as big as that rode pass you and you did not notice. If you were sleeping I might have understood but nope, you were wide awake.”

At that moment Jordan felt like cursing himself for really not sleeping. He had even turned towards the stables to ensure that when Vidor returned he caught him but who would have known that it would backfire so?

‘I am sorry mister, I cannot protect you any longer and I most definitely do not want to work for a troublesome man like you so perhaps when I mention you, this roaring Lion would calm down.’

Finalizing on what he was going to do, he took in a deep breath, closing his eyes and hoping that by the time he was done everything would be okay.

“Jordan!”

“Yes sir, he took it.”

“Who took it? Who is the he?”

“He took it but I had no idea it belonged to the king and he wouldn’t even listen to me when I tried to stop him.”

“Who?!”

“Mr Vid.. The man that recommended me to you for the job,” he rushed out.