panels, and shoved them away from one another, exposing the large window and bringing some light into his darkened study that was like a private library with books littering it all the way around the circular area aside from the roaring fireplace where a small cage was nestled with a black drape on top of it.
You need to calm yourself down, Daniel. His rational side of his conscience spoke to him in a way to extinguish the fire that was fueling the rage inside. Right now is not the best time to let your hatred come to the surface, and reach out to its fullest extent.
I have been lied to…by someone that I thought I could trust and believe in. Daniel pressed his forehead against the cold glass of the large window, and let a heated breath seep out of his strong lips and hit the glass pane of it. No one lies and deceives me without paying the price for it.
Don’t do this, Daniel. Don’t-
The sound of his den doors shutting in the distance behind him echoed to his ears, and brought him back to reality, leaving the conversation with his conscience behind. He lifted his head up, slightly, and looked at his confidant’s chubby reflection in the window while he was busy catching his own breath, and leaning against the doors.
“M-My lord…” Richard said, softly, in a whispery tone. “Perhaps you can tell me what it is that has unsettled you so that I might be able to fix the situation.”
“This is something that is beyond your ability to fix, Richard.” Daniel spoke to him with a dark, lethal sound to his voice. Straightening his body, he turned around, and showed the intense expression on his face that exposed all the dark anger that had started to rise to the surface. “I have been lied to, and deceived by someone that I thought I could trust and talk to about anything.”
“Who…Who was it, my lord?”
“Radcliff…”
“Radcliff?” Richard’s right eyebrow arched at the answer he had received from his master. Keeping his eyes on him, his voice started to return to its normal sound as he spoke to him. “Are you talking about the same man who is the farmer the lives nearby with his wife, Marigold?”
“That is right…” Daniel moved himself over to where a small cage was on top of a waist high black roman column, and removed the cover from it, revealing a small, black bat to be hanging from a perch. “For the last three years that I have been ruling over these lands and talked with them on many occasions…They have kept a fact from me that I just found out on the trip to the castle.”
“What is that, Lord Willows?”
“Lily…is their only child.”
“But…They told me that they were unable to have children due to Marigold being barren…Why-“
“Radcliff has been keeping Lily locked up at night and close to his home in order to keep others from taking her away from him, and the orders that keeps her locked there. The whole time I have been looking for her…He has been hiding her from me.
For the crime of lying and deceiving me, his king, Radcliff must pay a price.”
“What do you wish to do about him?”
The question that his advisor proposed to him made his mind go into a panic for the answer. What was he going to do about Radcliff’s treachery?
Don’t do anything that will ruin your chance with his daughter, Daniel. If you hurt Radcliff in any particular way, that is going to hurt Lily, and cause you to lose favor with her.
Then it hit him: Lily. He had the beautiful, angelic daughter of his new
You need to calm yourself down, Daniel. His rational side of his conscience spoke to him in a way to extinguish the fire that was fueling the rage inside. Right now is not the best time to let your hatred come to the surface, and reach out to its fullest extent.
I have been lied to…by someone that I thought I could trust and believe in. Daniel pressed his forehead against the cold glass of the large window, and let a heated breath seep out of his strong lips and hit the glass pane of it. No one lies and deceives me without paying the price for it.
Don’t do this, Daniel. Don’t-
The sound of his den doors shutting in the distance behind him echoed to his ears, and brought him back to reality, leaving the conversation with his conscience behind. He lifted his head up, slightly, and looked at his confidant’s chubby reflection in the window while he was busy catching his own breath, and leaning against the doors.
“M-My lord…” Richard said, softly, in a whispery tone. “Perhaps you can tell me what it is that has unsettled you so that I might be able to fix the situation.”
“This is something that is beyond your ability to fix, Richard.” Daniel spoke to him with a dark, lethal sound to his voice. Straightening his body, he turned around, and showed the intense expression on his face that exposed all the dark anger that had started to rise to the surface. “I have been lied to, and deceived by someone that I thought I could trust and talk to about anything.”
“Who…Who was it, my lord?”
“Radcliff…”
“Radcliff?” Richard’s right eyebrow arched at the answer he had received from his master. Keeping his eyes on him, his voice started to return to its normal sound as he spoke to him. “Are you talking about the same man who is the farmer the lives nearby with his wife, Marigold?”
“That is right…” Daniel moved himself over to where a small cage was on top of a waist high black roman column, and removed the cover from it, revealing a small, black bat to be hanging from a perch. “For the last three years that I have been ruling over these lands and talked with them on many occasions…They have kept a fact from me that I just found out on the trip to the castle.”
“What is that, Lord Willows?”
“Lily…is their only child.”
“But…They told me that they were unable to have children due to Marigold being barren…Why-“
“Radcliff has been keeping Lily locked up at night and close to his home in order to keep others from taking her away from him, and the orders that keeps her locked there. The whole time I have been looking for her…He has been hiding her from me.
For the crime of lying and deceiving me, his king, Radcliff must pay a price.”
“What do you wish to do about him?”
The question that his advisor proposed to him made his mind go into a panic for the answer. What was he going to do about Radcliff’s treachery?
Don’t do anything that will ruin your chance with his daughter, Daniel. If you hurt Radcliff in any particular way, that is going to hurt Lily, and cause you to lose favor with her.
Then it hit him: Lily. He had the beautiful, angelic daughter of his new
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