บท 128: Chapter 128: Fears of Betrayal

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(A little review about the timeline. I changed the year Queen Raella got pregnant from year 283 to the end of year 282 AC)

The tourney of Harrenhal happened at the end of year 281 AC. Rhaegar kidnapped Lyanna in the next month. Brandon Stark died a month later at the start of year 282 AC starting the rebellion after another two weeks of his death. The war in Stormsland and The Reach took Edward nearly three months to finish. The 'Battle Of The Gate' happened at the start of the fifth month of year 282 AC. The battle of Holdfast between The Northern and Vale Armies and The Crown's army took place one month later. Edward captured Jon one week later. The marriage of Ned and Jon to the Tully girls happened around the sixth month of year 282 AC. Both sides did not attack each other for nearly three months in order to prepare for the final battle. The 'Battle of the Trident' took place at the end of year 282 AC. The sack of King's Landing happened at the start of the year 283 AC when Aerys sent the pregnant Queen to Dragonstone. Another month later, Ned and Edward found the dying Lyanna. It seemed that Lyanna only carried a child after four or five months of her kidnapping. After another two weeks, they returned to Storm's End. They should be around the third month of year 283 AC, and Ned's first child, Rob, was about to be born.

"I imprisoned your brother in the dungeon. It seemed that he did not know about Allyria's death. Let's leave him there for now." Said Edward trying to calm down Ashara.

After listening to Edward's advice, Ashara saw no reason for her to meet Arthur for the time being. She would have much time in the future to punish him for everything he did that caused their sister to die. After nodding her head, she turned her eyes to Edward. It was finally the time for them to discuss what she had decided upon by herself. She had already formulated a plan in her mind that would help her achieve everything that she wanted.

"Ed, I need you to train me. I mean it and this time seriously." Said Ashara as she looked at Edward with eyes full of determination. She would not accept a no for an answer. She had to get strong enough in order to protect everything precious in her heart.

Edward looked at Ashara's eyes and was surprised a little. He did not know that his words and actions would be this effective against Ashara and would change Ashara this much. But Edward had prepared himself for something like this. He did not want his wife to be a weakling that could not protect herself if things went south, so he welcomed this idea and smiled at her.

"Aye. I will do what you want." Said Edward as he smiled at Ashara. That was a positive change in his eyes, so of course, he would allow that. In fact, he had an idea that he planned to do, and Ashara would benefit from it but in the future. Ashara's safety was a top priority for him and his children, so her plan actually suited him more than her.

Ashara was satisfied by Edward's reply and looked at him in the eyes, intending to tell him the rest of her requests. She did not know if he would agree, but she would insist. Even if Edward refused, Ashara did not mind executing her plans in secret without Edward's knowledge.

"I also want to build my own guards. I am going to be the queen, and I need my own guards." Said Ashara as she looked at Edward.

In her thoughts, this was Ashara's first step in order to build her own power in this world. She would not forget to have her secret forces to help her in secret as well. They could kidnap or kill her enemies that might threaten her family in her eyes. No one knew how things would end up to so it was better for her to prepare herself for something like that.

Edward looked at Ashara's eyes after hearing her words and became a little worried. Edward always wanted to have full control and did not like any variable to miss his plan. So although he loved Ashara, he was afraid that something might change in the future or she would know about what he did and use this to turn against him. He had seen many powerful bitches that wanted to claim the thrones like Cersei and Daenerys. If Ashara changed more and became like them, she might turn against him in the end and cause him many problems.

"Why do you want them? Are not my people enough?" Asked Edward with some wary that he had hidden well enough so that Ashara could not sense it.

"As I told yours, Ed. I prefer to have my own guards. What if the men you have chosen betrayed you and killed our children. I can't accept that." Said Ashara with determination. She had to prepare for the worst. And at the moment, she did not trust anyone except Edward and her children. In her eyes, she thought everyone had a chance to betray her, and she would not trust anyone except the ones she would choose herself. She did not know that the probability of spies getting into her guards was higher than any of Edward's men betraying her.

Edward decided to give in to her command as she had just shown some improvement after her sister's death. But Edward would always monitor Ashara's actions from this moment forward. He would have to ask agents from shadow legion to follow her every move. No one knew that Edward had this organization in his hand, even Ashara. Even the mighty Tywin and the intelligent Varys only thought Edward might have planted some spies in every house like the way they did. They did not realize the difference between what Edward was doing and their pity tricks. Edward was building the first underground organization in the game of thrones.

"Fine, I will allow you to do that after the coronation ceremonies. Anything else?" Asked Edward with some annoyance as he did not like it when things got a little out of his control. He started to think of what he would do if Ashara did somethings that would harm him. Could he hurt her? Edward wondered about an answer to this question for a long time after this conversation.

"I want to torture the dogs that raped my sister by my hands." Said Ashara with anger in her voice. She had sworn to fley their skin by her hands for doing something like that to her sister. She had enough determination to do that with her own hands.

Edward did not see any reason to refuse her this time. Although it would be weird to know that his wife and mother of his children would do something like that, it was acceptable knowing what those two did to her sister. So Edward nodded his head with a more serious expression.