
Chapter 17
In the large room belonging to the Emperor, Prince Otis had just finished telling all the events of the day as well complete about Princess Esmera's current situation. It just so happened that there was a Queen Mother who was accompanying the Emperor with a happy face because her husband was healthy again. But Prince Otis did not tell Princess Esmera about Princess Abigail's suspicions about drug entrapment.
"Why is Alex letting me down. hhhhh..." The emperor nodded his head in a shuffle, Alex was a wise person, even to be appointed a War General was not even easy. But now...
"Where is Alex now? Bring her!" emperor's Decree.
"My husband, don't be so hard on Alex. Is Princess Esmera's words also entirely true?" persuade the Queen Mother.
"Every act must have accountability, Princess Esmera has also received a reply from her actions. Even though the reason for Alex's cruel deeds to Esmera was because to protect the servant's son in his residence still just punished a woman let alone a noble Princess with a lash, it was too heinous!"
The Queen Mother let out a long sigh, her husband was right. Torture is like a whip, very cruel to a woman.
Before long Alex had been brought before the Emperor, the Emperor's personal bodyguard found him standing pensively on the edge of the back pond.
Alex didn't fight back when the bodyguards brought in, as if he knew what was going to happen to him.
"Bless your head!" tell the Emperor in a loud voice.
Alex raised his head lowered, a face that was previously arrogant and confident but now looked pitiful. The eyes that had always looked arrogant, were now somber as if the world had abandoned them.
Alex's head bowed again, not only unable to accept the reality but he was also ashamed of himself.
"I have sent my bodyguards to your residence, to check on the state of the little boy. We'll wait, get King and Alex's mother here!" the Emperor's word to the bodyguard.
Alex let out a sigh of resignation, he was indeed too cruel. It was true that a few days ago he met Princess Abigail, but they just happened to meet. Princess Abigail continues to say she always misses him despite being married to Prince Levon. After the meeting she heard that Princess Abigail was sick, her heart anxious. When yesterday there was a call coming to the Palace, he instead heard about Princess Esmera's complaint. The queen mother ruled him to raise his wife, her heart worried about Princess Abigail plus Princess Esmera's irritable behavior made him flustered and tortured Esmera while having her body. Not only that, as if the circumstances supported his cruelty he had his bodyguards whip Esmera. Now, he even knows all the quiet truth about Princess Abigail, about the lies she always thinks and worries about. Esmera, who he was supposed to take care of and love, the woman who actually saved him, he tortured him continuously until dying.
"I... regret... I want to fix everything.. I want to ask Esmera for forgiveness.." he explained.
Although his voice was very slow, but Prince Otis and the Emperor could hear him.
"You should be sorry, but isn't it too late for you to fix everything? I'm not sure!" prince Otis.
Alex raised his head, "Grandfather... Esmera said she loved me from childhood, she even saved my life and even Esmera said she would lose her life in a high fever because it helped me. Grandpa, aren't we destined to be together? I just wrongly thought, I was just fooled by Abigail. Grandpa, I'm going to fix my marriage. I will accept any punishment, from now on I promise to treat Esmera with all my heart."
The Emperor exhaled, "It wasn't me who decided about your marriage, but Esmera herself. Prince Otis said, Esmera told me that as long as you were married you never loved her or paid attention to her until your wife was lonely and you met another woman outside even that was the wife of your own sister. You've gone too far, Alex! And... Why do you think I was disappointed in you all this time, when you said you were framed by Esmera? Since you are a great General, you always succeed against your enemies on the battlefield. However, why is it because of a woman's stratagem that you can get stuck. It's because you're too arrogant and blinded to your love for Princess Abigail and for not wanting to disappoint her for being accused of harassing Esmera you shut your rational mind and finally couldn't escape the trap!"
"Grandfather.." Alex's voice sounded resigned.
The love! His love for Princess Abigail, now even feels just pseudo and feels in vain.