Capítulo 16: Chapter 16 - The Threat From A Magician, His Mother-In-Law

"No!" cried Prince Theodoric at once.

When he was enjoying what was in front of him, at that moment he soon realized and remembered his wife, Princess Ivy.

Princess Barbara was immediately taken aback. Her face was then angry and annoyed with what Prince Theodoric had just done to her.

"What? Why did His Majesty change your mind? You know we almost-"

"Shut up, Barbara! I can not do it! I do not want to betray my wife!" chirps Prince Theodoric cut her off.

Suddenly, Princess Barbara burst into tears. She felt so repulsed by Prince Theodoric who hurt her when they almost did.

"Your Majesty, you know I will not stop here, will I?"

But Prince Theodoric was silent. He turned his face so as not to see Princess Barbara's two breasts that challenged him.

"If you reject me today, later you will accept me as your sex slave. I do not even mind, Your Majesty. Come if you need it. But right now, I am very disappointed in you!"

Princess Barbara immediately rearranged her dress. The sound of her shoes then stepped away from Prince Theodoric's room.

After she is gone, Prince Theodoric hits the wall. His face looked fierce and annoyed with himself. He almost did it again. Even though it was just the beginning, that alone meant he had betrayed his wife.

"Ivy, I do not know what will happen if you find out what I did," he said to the view outside his palace.

"Your Majesty ... Princess Barbara is gone," the servant Ezra reported.

"Has anyone seen us?" asked Prince Theodoric.

"Nothing, Your Majesty."

With one hand, Prince Theodoric ordered servant Ezra out of his room.

Servant Ezra is indeed the one who knows best about what happened to him and Princess Barbara. For that servant, Ezra is trusted by him in this matter.

Prince Theodoric immediately changed his clothes and told the maids to wash them immediately so that Princess Ivy would not suspect him. He did not want any suspicion on his wife because he did not want to see the wound in her beautiful eyes.

***

"Mother?"

Princess Ivy wakes up to find Queen Amelissa, her mother-in-law, not by her side. She then looked around and realized that she was in the yard of a familiar house.

The home of Queen Melanie, her birth mother.

Her smile immediately widened and she immediately got off her horse carriage. Then Princess Ivy looked at servant Zehron who was standing on the side of the horse carriage.

"Is the Queen inside, Zehron?" she asked.

"That is right, Your Majesty."

"Then I will come in."

Princess Ivy entered her mother's modest home and the two middle-aged women looked at her with a smile.

She immediately hugged her biological mother and looked at her mother-in-law, which was indirectly surprising because her destination was to go to her mother's house.

"Mother, I did not know you were going to be here," she said to Queen Amelissa.

"Surprise for my daughter-in-law. Are you happy?"

"Very happy. Thank you, Mother."

"You may sit, I will make tea for you," ordered Queen Melanie, her mother.

As she sat, she was asking herself, what made Queen Amelissa come here? It is impossible if she just wants to surprise her.

"I will help her, Mother," she said to her mother-in-law.

Queen Amelissa just nodded. She did not feel that Princess Ivy was suspecting her and was finding out through her mother.

"Mother, what does the Queen want?" asked Princess Ivy in a whisper.

Stirring the tea, Queen Melanie replied, "herbs. She always comes for her health potions with her husband."

"What? Why did I just find out, Mother? Really, what disease do the Queen and King suffer from?" said Princess Ivy.

Queen Melanie looked at her with a smile, causing her daughter to look down because she knew that to ask such a question was very rude, an invasion of one's privacy.

"I am sorry, Mother. I was just too curious."

She lifted her daughter's chin and Queen Melanie was still smiling. "They are not sick but watch out for diseases that can come at any time. The potions she asks for are always given to her servants and even to the Prince. Of course, she gives them secretly," explained Queen Melanie.

Princess Ivy sighed. Hearing the answer from her mother was more than enough. She thought there was something more important than just a potion.

"I will take it, Mother," she said, taking over the tray containing her teacup.

Queen Melanie looked at her daughter who had stepped in first. Her smile faded and she turned around and saw the water in the jug.

With a sweep of her hand, the water then showed Prince Theodoric who rejected Princess Barbara when they almost made love.

Queen Melanie's face was grim and wrathful. She felt her son-in-law had betrayed her daughter. But when she learned that Prince Theodoric had rejected Princess Barbara, she felt a little relieved even though she was still angry.

Queen Melanie then closed her eyes. Transmitting her voice via telepathy which she always does. She whispered into Prince Theodoric's ear.

"I know what you have just done, Theo. This time, I will forgive you. But if next time you are tempted again, then I will send disaster upon you because you betrayed my daughter."

***

The voice that echoed but only to his ears made Prince Theodoric flinch. His face was full of fear and panic.

He forgot that if his wife's mother was a magician, of course, her mother would monitor him.

"I am sorry, Queen ... I have refused and I promise I will not be tempted again for the second time and forever," he whispered.

There was a horror he felt when he heard Queen Melanie's threat. In his entire life, no one had ever threatened him as Queen Melanie had said.

If he had enemies, surely Prince Theodoric would have had some, but a threat … to him, it was already dangerous. Especially if what he is dealing with is a magician, the mother of his wife.