The Commoner Consort: The Country’s Respected Empress - Chapter 165
Maya lets out a shaky breath in relief before taking her hands back from Kalki’s and speaks turning towards the doctor “I doubt these leaves or barks can become poisonous if it directly touches the open wounds”.
Kalki darts his eyes over her constantly without missing any of her words.
The doctors stares at her weirdly but wouldn’t dare to ignore their Queen’s words.
Immediately, they listen to her and she hands them the cloth that was dabbed with Xavier’s blood. She declares “If this blood is poisonous then my doubts are true”.
The doctor nods hurriedly as he now found something to try “Yes, Your Highness! We will test it at once!”.
They couldn’t help wonder how the Queen has found this strange thing yet they choose to remain silent in front of Kalki.
Maya hands the leaves, barks and the torn cloth to them. She finds them already leaving and lets out a relaxed breath.
She rubs her palms and looks around nervously.
And then she finds Xavier’s unconscious body in the chamber finally.
She sucks in a sharp breath in worry as she saw a terrific injury on his already injured arm.
His skin must have cut open by a knife from all the way from his upper arm to his wrist.
‘Why?!’
She cringes subconsciously imagining the pain that cut must have caused him and mutters worriedly “I hope this might help”.
‘I am not getting hurt like that! I can’t even stomach that thought!’
CLANK!
The door of the chamber opened and a voice echoed the silent room.
“Your Highness! We couldn’t find Prince Xavier’s pendant anywhere in the Royal Palace!”.
Maya turns back to see Jonathan speaking to Kalki and frowns ‘Prince Xavier’s Pendant?’.
Earning a death glare from Kalki, Jonathan himself stutters “T-This servant will search further!”.
He runs out of the chamber with that sentence.
Maya asks subconsciously “Why are you searching for the chain?”.
Seeing his cold face she immediately regrets asking. She wants to slap her mouth so harshly so they she wouldn’t be too careless next time!
She clears her throat in fear and turns away from him muttering “Heavens!”
‘What am I even doing?!’.
Kalki stares her nervous face and speaks scrutinizing her behaviour “The chain can save him”.
‘Why is she intrigued? Does she know about it?!’
He doesn’t want to reveal this long hidden secret but after hearing her eagerness about the chain, he could only speak it out. He can sense something from her eyes. He knows he is not wrong!
He can’t afford to lose his brother for this secret. He wants to find the chain at any cost!
Maya gets shocked as soon as he spilled the truth “What?!”.
Kalki gets his answer ‘She knows!’ and announces “I need the chain. Where is it?!”.
Maya gulps and subconsciously her hands traced her neck.
Kalki watches her in astonishment. But his face never let any emotions escape like always.
‘How in the earth did that chain reach her neck?!’.
Maya pulls out the chain from her robes and removes it from her neck before forwarding it towards him “Is this the one?!”.
Kalki looks at the chain and her face alternatively as if he has seen some ghost.
Instantly his eyes turn stern! The room becomes even colder now.
Maya cringes at his intense stare. She felt like this man would burn her alive now.
Kalki never changed his reaction as his mind had a wild battle in itself.
‘I told him to never remove it from his neck! No matter what! But he gave this to her?! He was supposed to keep it safe with him for his own protection! I gave him this in spite of my sickness just because I wanted him to not to get any fatal injuries…This chain can prevent the blood loss as it helped me to remain normal even after the injuries! I know what it is capable of! But he simply gave it to a stranger?!”.
He asks calmly with no trace of his raging heart “How did you get this?”.
She blinks blankly before opening her purses lips yet fear emerging fron her tone “P-Prince Xavier asked me… to keep it safe-“.
‘Why do sense an incredible danger? He sounds calm as ever…Wait..he never talks..other than threatening me..This calmness.. truely frightens me…’
Kalki clenched his jaw as soon as those words escaped from her. He still asks calmly “He gave it to you?”.
He knows how to get his answers. It doesn’t matter whether he needs to be calm or roar to get it. He just knows to trick people’s mind and make them do what he wanted them to do!
He has been playing with Maya using those skills till now. She didn’t even realize she has been constantly tricked. Every single time! She thought she has been escaping from his traps but the truth is something else.
Maya could only gulp her anxiety as this sudden ‘conversation’ with Kalki was not at all relaxing.
She is sweating cold sweats already and blurts her doubt “Yes? He shouldn’t have given this?”
He asks softly “When?”.
Yet his face remained same.
Maya couldn’t understand Kalki’s sudden softness and warmness. She could only answer immediately “The day we met in the village-“.
She was puzzled beyond belief by his words and their sounds.
He continues the exact situation for her “The first ever day he met you, he gave it to you!”.
Maya senses his tone getting weird and gulps.
‘Should I tell him that he put this on my neck? No! He is dangerous and perhaps doesn’t want me to keep such expensive chain with me? It should be the reason..He loathes my presence-‘.
He asks harshly “Why?!”.
Maya flinches but nods “H-He said…I could use this to return to the palace…”.
Kalki looks away from her with strange look on his face and walks towards Xavier bitterly.
His mind couldn’t help ask again in disbelief
‘Why?!’.