God is Watching
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Soon after the king left, the duchess and the prince went back into the duke's chambers.
While the duchess carried a face full of concerns, she asks them,
"What had the King of the south come for?"
Then with a straight face, they answered her honestly and said
"He wanted to make (me) our daughter his queen, so we rejected him."
While the duchess just gasped and covered her mouth in surprise, Prince Leon's face, on the other hand, instantly turn as dark as the night sky.
Then the father and daughter told them everything except for the matter about Ivy's eye as she did not want her mother, the duchess, to worry and frown about the fact that she had only another year to stay alive.
After the discussion was over, Ivy decided to leave her parents alone and continue their couple loving moments.
So she drags the prince away and exited the room, and before she leaves, she smiles at them and said,