Love, Revenge, And The Sea
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You're my first woman

You're the woman with the smile

Who buy your bitters and sorrows

and you're the greatest woman of my life...

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Aksa walked in the hallway towards the main palace where his father lived, behind him faithfully 2 people guarding him. As soon as he reached the main door of the palace, the two people in charge of guarding the door of the palace immediately opened the door for him.

"Welcome Prince." They said in an almost unison voice.

Aksa directly into the luxurious palace with many carvings typical of the style *Europe. In front of him was already the head of the household, he stood welcoming Aksa.

"Welcome Prince." Said the Chief to Aksa half-bending.

"Where's my dad?" aksa said with her flat face.

"Your Majesty is relaxing in the living room." The Chief said again.

Aksa did not answer, he just immediately stepped his feet towards the living room consisting of large sofas that looked very luxurious. He soon found his father, sitting flanked by 2 young women who were even younger than Aksa. Aksa raised the corners of her lips slightly, too fed up with the sight seen before her eyes.

King Leonal looked at his newly arrived son, he then sat up more upright, no longer seemed to relax with the 2 women, he then made a gesture for the two women to leave, Aksa who saw that just smiled cynically.

" Why didn't you tell me when you came here?" king Leonal said coldly.

"Now should I also ask permission to meet my father?" aksa said still with a pejorative look.

"Sit down." Said King Leonal, sitting upright in his perfect manner, displaying an aura of his leadership, indicating that there he was the one in power.

Aksa sat in front of her father who looked at her cynically, Aksa just saw her lazy.

"What have you done?" said King Leonal flat only.

"What do you think my father did?" aksa.

"You will indeed be king, no one can move you with that status, but you still have to keep the good name of this kingdom in public, if they don't believe in us anymore, he said, it could be that our godly rights will be lost, you remember, you also have a crime that can be prosecuted easily, if our privilege is abolished." Said King Leonal again.

"We all have our own crimes Dad... You're just afraid that Angga will take revenge on you for wiping out his parents, right?" aksa said again with a cynical smile.

The leonal king looked angry at Aksa's words, he looked at Aksa with a slight narrowing of his eyes, yet he was very good at regulating his emotions.

"The wall can speak here, son, I didn't expect the child to be so developed like this, even our colleagues who were once loyal to us, have started leaning towards it." Said King Leonal again.

"It's none of my business, it's still your business, Dad, so if you want me to deal with it, just give me your power." Aksa.

"Squeaky." Said King Leonal again looking at his son, his eyes reddened, yet he still looked calm.

"At the same time, there's something else I have to worry about, you remember the curse on our family, be careful, if you take a wrong step, he might not give you his blood." Aksa.

"How about you?, you should start to be able to hide your emotions, such a cheap woman you shouldn't be taking everywhere.and why should you kill your Princess Alexandrite so soon, then, you shouldn't have to get rid of her, she's a chosen woman, where else would you get a woman like her?" said King Leonal look more relaxed.

Aksa again smiled cynically, as if not taking at all his father's words.

"So I should've kept her locked up, forced her to give birth to a son for me, and then let her go crazy, like Mom? I think we're the same, but at least I've made him free" Aksa said.

"You really have to control whatever you want to say. Control your emotions " said King Leonal relaxed

"Isn't that a Huxley family trait, we can't control our emotions. Where's my mom?" aksa said stand up.

Aksa did not answer his father's words, he went straight from there, down some hallways that initially looked beautiful, but the more he walked, the more gloomy the hallway, the more, until the hallway was dead and only a worn wooden door seemed to be consumed by time, the atmosphere was no longer like in the palace, but a dreary prison.2 female guards stood there, and there was no more, seeing Aksa coming, the 2 guards immediately gave their greetings.

Aksa opened the door, looking inside for a moment, a spacious room with makeshift windows, a bed and some old sofas. The air inside felt moist and stuffy, the lighting was not so good. He walked in, looking for the figure he finally found sitting on the old, v*ictoria-style bed.

He wore the white clothes typical of European sleepwear, his gaze was empty, just staring at the wall without paint, he played his hair a little curly beautiful, his face looked white, and he looked white, her sharp nose, her lips that had not been dabbed by the lipstick seemed paler, her beautiful brown eyes were lowered on Aksa.

Aksa sat on her mother's bed that felt moist, staring at her face long enough not to see it. Sensing that someone was coming, he looked at Aksa.

Although her age is more than half a century, her beauty does not fade, really a woman of choice, but unfortunately her fate is also not much different from Bella, A Princess Alexandrite before Bella.

"How are you, ma'am? " said Aksa slightly smiling, it was only to this woman that she could smile so gently.

"You're Aksa?" said the woman looks teary looking Aksa.

"Yes, I'm sorry I rarely see you." Said Aksa staring pusher at her mother's eyes.

"You're already king?" ayan looked at her son.

"Not yet." Aksa said softly, from the small Aksa always said if he became king, he would take his mother away from there, take a walk, because he knew, he would take his mother away, his mother had always been confined in the kingdom even from her childhood.

"You're married?" ayana said very softly, showing the training she had from childhood in the palace.

"It." Aksa said as he could, there was a sense of sadness in his heart.

"Where is your Princess Alexandrite? I want to meet." Ayana.

"He's no longer there, ma'am" Aksa said.

"You released him?"

"I killed him."

Ayana was silent, seeing her son's face looked sad, Ayana then smiled slightly.

"You're doing your best, don't let him get cooped up in here in my place, it's sadder than death." Ayana said again, looking back at the empty wall.

Aksa smiled.

"Today I'm taking medicine?" aksa.

Ayana looked back at Aksa, looking at her fixedly.

"You Aksa? " said Ayana again, as if she had forgotten what she had said just now.

"No, I'm not Aksa." Aksa's smile was dashed.

"Can you find my son, he'll be king, he's smart, smart and kind, my son will be king, please tell him I miss him so much." Ayana said holding Aksa's hand with a thick emotion, Aksa held back her emotions, otherwise she would spill her tears there.

"I'll be king Mom, I'll take you out." Said Aksa again.

"really? you're Aksa? that very good boy? "said Ayana holding onto Aksa's cheek, her cold hand touching Aksa's cheek, Aksa then pulled herself up, stood up and went straight out of the room. His mother is mentally ill, sometimes can be talked to, but only temporarily.

The door of the room closed again, Aksa walked quickly without looking back, walked down the long hallways and returned to meet her father who was having a fight back with the women beside her. Aksa was silent, at least he did not let a woman give him a child, separate the child from his mother, and lock his mother to mental illness.

His mother took him away from the kingdom several times, but with her power, his father always found them, and the last time his mother left, he was separated forever, in lockups in prison, and Aksa is only allowed to see him if his father permits, if Aksa is caught seeing his mother without his father's knowledge, his mother will get lashings repeatedly, and Aksa must witness it. The last time she saw her mother in a whip was when she was 12, she decided not to see her mother anymore.

Aksa continued his way out of the main palace, and left his father who smiled cynically at him