Chapter 39: 39th time

VI

Saba Tamac and her daughter Tanda, from the palace terraces watched the overflow of the celebrating crowd. A wave of pride invaded the king. He would impose his plans thanks to the disobedience of Son of the Condor. From now on he would see the boy with different eyes.

---Do you still want to marry him?

--Now more than ever," --said the young woman with immense emotion.

--But I have known other things, if I had known at the time they would have made me decide differently,"-- said the king remembering the conversation with Altulay. Xixata was also wanted by that boy...

--Well, I am the one he loves the most,"-- said the girl, her voice trembling with indignation at the assumption that her father knew about Xixata and Son of the Condor

---, "and it is his duty to answer me with dignity.

How?" --asked Saba Tamac indignantly in turn, suddenly clenching his fists, "--How could he dare?