Forgotten Wife: Let the Traitors Kneel Down

112 Bad memories April felt Alessandro very anxious, as if something was worrying him, she asked him.

_I feel you very anxious, is something wrong? _No, nothing.

_ Sure? _I just don't want to leave you, I want to be by your side, whenever I'm away from you I feel anxious.

_I'll be fine, you don't have to be anxious.

Alessandro caressed his cheek and said.

_I already know that, but it's something I can't help.

Someone knocked on the door, it was Alessandro's assistant.

_Your Majesty, there are many things for today.

Alessandro sighed and said.

_I'll be there soon.

He kissed April on the cheek and said.

_Duty calls, I must go.

_ Will you eat with me? _I don't think it's possible, but I'll try.

_I'll be waiting for you.

Alessandro changed and then went out, his assistant was standing by the door waiting for him, he bowed and greeted him.

_Good morning Your Majesty, I'm sorry to come so early, but there are many things for today, documents that need your approval and the meeting with the nobles.

_I know, today I have to meet with that flock of crows.

Alessandro started walking, Gabriel walked a few steps behind him and said.

_Your Majesty should not speak like that about nobles, they would be offended if they heard you.

_But if it's true, they are like crows waiting to devour my flesh at the first moment of carelessness, I want you to talk to the temple, I want the swearing-in ceremony to take place as soon as possible and make sure you find a dance teacher for my wife.

_ A dance teacher? _Wait, a teacher would be better, I think Lady Elizabeth would be perfect to do it, ask one of the servants to bring her.

_Your Majesty, are you planning to take the princess to the ball? _That's right, she will be formally introduced as my wife and my queen.

Gabriel was very surprised by the king's words, since only a few months ago he had shown contempt and indifference towards the princess.

Alessandro continued walking as he spoke.

_I also want you to start organizing everything so that my wife is crowned as my queen.

Gabriel stopped again and asked.

_ What? Crown the princess as queen? _Yes, do you have a problem with that? _No, but I don't think the nobles will like that.

_That doesn't matter to me, April is my wife and therefore my queen, her opinions don't concern me.

Alessandro continued walking, Gabriel had to quicken his pace to catch up with the king.

_Your Majesty, you are completely sure of what you are saying.

_Yes, are you also against my wife taking her place on the throne next to me? _Of course not, but I'm not sure she's ready to be queen, so far she's never been involved in anything, when she becomes queen she'll have to start being part of social circles and take on her obligations as queen.

_Don't worry about it, when that time comes she will be.

Gabriel, seeing the confidence that the king showed in the princess, could not say anything else.

_I also want you to organize a meeting with the generals this week.

_War is imminent, isn't it? _ This is not the best place to talk about it, there are many ears and eyes that see us.

_I'm sorry, your majesty, I was reckless.

_ Choose better where you ask sensitive questions next time.

_I will do so, your majesty.

After Alessandro left, Abril called the maids.

After breakfast, they prepared her bath.

When they finished, while Abril was sitting at the dressing table and they were combing her hair, one of the maids asked her.

_It's a beautiful day today, wouldn't your majesty like to take a walk in the garden? Although that maid had not suggested it to her, that was precisely what she had planned to do, but upon hearing that maid's suggestion she could not help but remember that the first time one of the maids had suggested taking a walk in the garden, she still had some marks on her body from the thorns that had stuck into her body that day.

April shuddered.

_ Is something wrong, your majesty? _No, I just remembered something unpleasant.

_There is nothing better than fresh air to clear the mind.

_I guess you're right.

After that maid finished combing her hair, April asked her to go get something to eat for Koda, when she left, April wrote a note, left the room, in the hallway there was another maid, she handed her the note and said.

_ Can you give this to guard Noa please? _Of course, your majesty.

April returned to the room, the other maid who had been attending to her returned with Koda's food, after he ate, they headed to the garden.

While they were walking through the garden, the maid insisted on going to the rose garden.

April had bad memories of that place and didn't want to go, but the maid kept insisting until she made her go.

When she got to the rose garden, a blonde woman came out from between the rose bushes.

April had only seen her once, but she recognized her right away: it was Victoria Vampel, the woman who had been Alessandro's ex-fiancée.

April looked at the maid who had brought him there, she avoided her gaze.

April didn't want to be there, she backed away, but Victoria told her.

_Stop her.

That maid grabbed April, preventing her from leaving.

_ Where do you think you're going? _I have nothing to do with you, tell him to let me go.

_Of course I have business to attend to with myself.

Victoria approached Abril, lifted her face with the fan she was carrying and said.

_It seems it is true that you have begun to gain his majesty's favor.

_If you don't let me go you'll get into trouble.

_ Alessandro will always put me above you, don't think that because of a few days of kindness that Alessandro showed you, you are important to him, he and I were engaged for years, our bonds are stronger than he will ever have with you.

_You don't know anything about my relationship with Lessan.

_Lessan, are you trying to seem close to him by calling him by his nickname? _You can think whatever you want.

She is the queen 113 Since she was a little girl, Victoria heard repeatedly that she would be Cosset's queen, that there would be no one above her, and she believed it.

But one day a letter arrived for her father, who had become furious, he had destroyed the whole room to vent his anger.

When Victoria entered his office and saw everything destroyed, she asked him.

_Father, what happened? Alfonso threw the letter at her.

Victoria, seeing that the letter had the royal seal, picked it up from the floor and upon reading its contents she felt just as furious and humiliated as her father; it was a letter breaking the engagement between her and Alessandro.

_ What does this mean, father? _Your engagement to the king has been broken.

_ What? But my wedding was supposed to be in a few months, I was going to be the queen, father you have to do something, my marriage can't be cancelled.

_ And what do you want me to do? That letter came from the royal palace, it was sent by the king, there is nothing I can do.

_ But why did you cancel the engagement? _Don't know.

Alfonso took Victoria by the shoulders and began to shake her.

_ What did you do to offend his majesty? What did you do to make him want to break the engagement? _I haven't done anything, father, I swear.

Alfonso threw Victoria to the ground and said to her.

_Damn it, then why did your majesty cancel the engagement? _Don't know.

_Go away, there are many things I have to think about.

That day all his dreams and all his plans were shattered.

She felt that her life was losing meaning.

Victoria went to the palace every day trying to talk to Alessandro, but he did not receive her.

A few months later Victoria learned of Alessandro's marriage to the princess of the kingdom of Laios.

She was present at the wedding and, upon seeing her, she hated him for having taken away everything that should have been hers.

Although several years had passed since Alessandro had married, he had never recognized her as his wife, since after several years they still had no children and neither as a queen since she had still not been crowned as such, that filled Victoria with hope, she still had the opportunity to become queen and for her children to be the only heirs to the throne.

But for a few months now, Victoria's spies in the palace had told her that the king's attitude towards the princess had changed, that their relationship had begun to improve, and this worried Victoria because, although her father was pressuring the king to take her as his wife, if the relationship between the princess and the king became better, she ran the risk that the king would not agree to take a second wife.

When the princess had been attacked by one of the maids and seriously injured, Victoria wished with all her might for her to die, but her wish did not come true and when the princess had recovered many of the maids had been replaced from the palace and of the spies she had only one remained, the maid who had brought April to that garden to meet her.

Victoria wondered if the princess was pregnant, if that was the reason for the king's change towards her, Victoria touched her belly with her fan and asked.

_ Does your confidence come from a son? April was upset by Victoria's attitude, she hated that she tried to treat her like someone worthless.

April pushed her, Victoria got angry and raised her hand to slap her.

_How dare you touch me, you damn wretch, scum of the kingdom of Laios.

April closed her eyes waiting to receive the blow, however, someone stopped Victoria's hand, it was Noah, he had arrived just in time, April was glad she had sent him that letter before following that maid, she had distrusted her because of her insistence for her to go out into the garden and she had not been wrong, that maid's intentions were not good.

_Don't you dare touch Princess Lady Victoria.

_Let me go, you idiot.

Noah let go of Victoria's hand and seeing that the maid was holding April back, he said to her.

_How dare you treat his majesty like that, his head is so bothering you on your neck.

That servant let go of April and stepped back in fear under the intense gaze of that gentleman.

Noah asked April.

_Your Majesty, are you okay? _I'm fine.

Noah turned to Victoria.

_I don't know what Lady Victoria's intentions were when she had this servant bring Her Majesty the Queen to this remote place.

Victoria, upon hearing that Noah had called April, Her Majesty, the Queen, laughed out loud and said to him.

_The queen, this woman is not and will never be the queen, don't talk nonsense.

_She is the wife of his majesty the king and it is only a matter of time before she is crowned queen.

If I were you, I would be careful with my words, otherwise I doubt she will enjoy a good and long life in the future.

_Are you threatening me? _No, I'm just giving you some advice.